Cats & Bats Halloween Nail Art

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So I walked into my local grocery store, saw Halloween decorations are out, therefore it is officially time to start doing Halloween nail art! Am I early? Maybe. Do I care? Not very much! For this design, I used an upcoming Polish Pickup polish called Cats & Bats by Glisten & Glow.

I recently joined the G&G swatch team and I am ridiculously excited about it! I have been a fan of this brand for a while plus the owner Jill is pretty amazing. If you haven’t caught one of her Instagram lives, you’re missing out. ANYWAY, this polish is the type of polish that I will never get sick of. There’s something about purple jellies with flakies that I just can’t get enough of.

So as not to spoil my review, which will be up later this month, let’s just get into the nail art. As always, links to everything I used will be at the end of the post. Apologies there isn’t a video tutorial for this look. I meant to record but got so excited that I forgot.

For this mani, I used 3 coats of Cats & Bats (review coming soon). That polish is a dark purple that looks black in low lighting. I then applied 1 coat of the Glisten & Glow top coat. While I waited for that to dry so I could take my swatch photos, I stamped the kitty head with Bam White, colored that in *while still on the stamper* with Teepee tipping and Seashell pink, and let it dry.

The bat images were pretty short so I double stamped that on so it would cover my full nail. After I finished stamping all of my fingers, I applied the sticky base coat by Maniology onto my ring finger, let that dry for a few minutes, and then stamped the kitty onto my ring finger. Once that was on, I floated on a thick coat of the Glisten & Glow top coat onto all my nails.

I usually use a water based top coat (generally the no smudge one by Maniology) before my top coat because I am really bad at floating top coat on but I wanted to minimize the number of layers of polish that needed drying so I lived dangerously. It paid off, I didn’t have any issues with this smudging.

Products Used

• Base polish: Cats & Bats by Glisten & Glow (recieved in PR, exclusive to the September 2021 Polish Pickup)
• Base coat: 1st Base by Heather’s Hues
• Liquid Latex
• Maniology Sticky Base (for the reverse stamping)
• Stamping plate: Teenage Dream XL M157 by Maniology (save 10% with my affiliate code NLN10)
• Stamping polishes: Seashell (pink), Teepee tipping (orange) [no longer available, sorry], Bam! White and Boy Tears [no longer avaible, sorry] by Maniology
• Stamper: Stainless steel clear stamper by Twinkled T (save 10% on Twinkled T orders with code NicoleLovesNails10)
• Top coat: Glisten & Glow Top Coat (recieved in PR, previously purchased)

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