Blue Cross Chunky Nail Pumpkins Halloween 2011

These Halloween pumpkin nail polishes are another one of my favorite seasonal items every year. They're manufactured by Blue Cross, who make the adorable Snowman nail polishes for Christmas, and they also make Claire's nail polish, which is why I sometimes see Claire's dupes in the pumpkin/snowman/ornaments polishes. For Halloween, they do a huuuuge variety of colors; all kinds of multi-glitters, glow in the dark with glitter, neons, some random shimmers, plain black, blacklight reactive, neon with glitter, mini polish sets, stringy glitters, shaped glitters, the whole nine yards. I only got a few this year since most are repeats from previous years, but this time I saw a couple new ones.

The one thing I don't like about these is that they never have names. The ones this year are called... get this.... Chunky Nail. That's pretty accurate, I must say. These are quite chunky.

Here's swatches of a few:

This one's a green-based multicolored glitter. Very rough. Main colors are green and gold.



This is a blue-based multicolored glitter. Reminds me a little bit of OPI Absolutely Alice, just not as shiny and twice as chunky. It has two kinds of blue, gold, purple and silver.


This one is my favorite. It's a smoky black jelly base with multiple sizes of shiny orange glitter. A little like China Glaze Fortune Teller. Still chunky, but much smoother than the pure glitters. They also have another version of this with a murky, weird looking green-orange jelly base which is also very cool.




This one looks amazing in the bottle. It's a vivid electric purple sheer base with a galaxy of different glitters inside. Opalescent mylar flakes, tiny pastel opal glitter, seems like a little bit of regular glitter is in there too, but it's hard to tell. It's incredibly sheer and ridiculously thick so I didn't even bother trying to show it on its own. I did one coat and said screw it, I'm layering this. Hahaha. I don't remember which base color I used, but it was a black-purple creme and I did one coat of the pumpkin polish with two coats of topcoat. The flakes are huge and are pretty impossible to get completely smooth.

The formula on these is not fantastic. They are thick, rough, take a long time to dry and eat through multiple coats of topcoat. Still cool, though.

One of the ones I bought is missing a brush! I thought it looked weird, and when I opened it to check it out, I noticed that the brush was just completely gone... No trace of it anywhere inside the bottle. Oops!

I usually get mine at Meijer, I'm not sure which other places carry these!