Twinsie Tuesday : vampy

Not wanting to miss another post (sorry about last week) here's my vampy nails. I'll be back with details later.

This week the Twinsies are ending the month with a vampy manicure to welcome the fall season and of course October. I like vampy nail colors but I feel like I always reach for the same dark polishes when doing these kind of themes. This time I wanted to spice it up a bit. I started with Cherimoya PB25 - Ruby Step 4. Then on my tips, I added WnW Black Creme and topped it with Sally Hansen Silver Streamers.

Alaina at The Little Canvas
Amanda at Amandalandish
Amanda at Fashion Footing
Amber at Nails Like Lace
Bridget at A Painted Nail
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi
Claire at Kerruticles
Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer
Lisa at The Polish Playground
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Marisa at Polish Those Nails
Megan at A Beauty in the Business
Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les
Sara at The Call of Beauty
Savannah at Addicted to Polish
Sharon at Behind Green Eyes
Steph at Lovestruck Lacquer
Tiffany at Polished To Precision

On Trend: Oxblood (WnW Haze of Love)

When I heard Oxblood was THE color of the season I dove into my stash to see what I currently own that fits the description. I was searching for a deep wine-red. What I came across was China Glaze VII, China Glaze Velvet Bow and Wet N Wild Haze of Love. Since 11th Gorgeous had Haze of Love on their list, I felt in the loop. Here's what Haze of Love looks like on my nails, I am wearing 3 coats.

WnW Toxic Apple

This was my NOTD for the 2nd season premiere of Once Upon a Time. Meet Toxic Apple from the Pick Your Poison collection. I purchased 4 of the 6 last week for $1.49 each at Walgreens.

Toxic Apple is in the blurple family with red and blue shimmer that I couldn't capture on camera. It looks more navy blue on the nails than it looks purple in the bottle but I still find it pretty. Application was smooth but I needed 2 coats to layer out any balding. As G pointed out in her post, clean up can be a tad difficult if using the brush with acetone method because it causes bleeding (which I tried to hide with my tag).

Brand: Wet n Wild
Collection: Pick Your Poison
Color Name/Number: Toxic Apple (33907)
Finish: shimmer
Number of Coats: 2
Top Coat: yes

Valentine Nails 2

Hey bonitas! I had intended on doing an abundant amount of Valentine's Nails for my blog/readers but I'm not that great at coming up with nail art ideas at the top of my head and most designs I try will be inspired by or re-creates and that may be a little boring or repetitive. Nail art is not my strong point.

First, the base color of my "Valentine's nails". This is Sinful Colors Rich in Heart. RiH is a deep chocolate burgundy and appears black in low lighting. Besides my deformed brush, it applies nicely and was opaque in 2 coats although I did use 3.

Brand: Sinful Colors

Line:  Core?

Color Name: Rich in Heart

Finish: Shimmer

Number of Coats: 3

Top Coat: No

Next up, we have a swatch comparison of NYX Girls Dorothy and Ulta Fashionably Late over RiH. I previously swatched Dorothy before but a great friend of mine sent me Ulta Glitterati Minis and now I have a dupe/back-up of one of my favorite glitters. They are basically an exact match for each other.

Brand: NYX Girls (Index) Ulta (Middle)

Color Name: Dorothy (index) Fashionably Late (middle) over RiH

Finish: Glitter

Number of Coats: 1 over 3 coats RiH

Top Coat: no

See in low lighting, RiH looks black, while in others it looks like a chocolate brown. Below is another attempt at hearts on my nails. For the hearts I used Shades of the Season Red. 

NOTD: WnW Disturbia and "Vampy/fall" colors

DISCLAIMER! I apologize for not "cleaning up" before these pictures.

Wet n Wild MegaLast Disturbia is a gorgeous plummy purple with fine shimmers. It has a different look in different lighting. The above picture was taken with flash and I used 3 coats. I have not worn it outside in sunlight yet so I can't tell you if the shimmers pick up in the sunlight. In artificial lighting, it has a deep vampy purple look. Because of this, I decided to compare it to my other vampy colors.
On my other hand I swiped Disturbia, Sinful Colors Rich in Heart (a deep burgundy with red shimmer) and NYC Plaza Plumberry (a wine-plum color). All three colors are so dark, they almost look black in certain lights. Here I was complaining about not having fall colors, but these are perfect for fall. The above picture and picture below were taking without flash.

with flash.
(again pardon the messiness that I did not clean up)

Do you own any dark vampy colors for fall? I'm ready to add some dark greens and khaki greens and of course browns or golds to my collection. What are you wearing for fall?