A few new cool Fall and Halloween drugstore nail finds!

I found some cool new fall nail stuff while out shopping this week.  I noticed that a lot of the Halloween things are the same as last year's (like the Blue Cross pumpkins and mini polishes and a lot of the Wet n Wild Fantasy Makers stuff), but there were a few new ones.

 
The new 2012 Wet n Wild Fantasy Makers colors:

12487 Nail In The Coffin (black with silver and orange microglitter)

12488  Rest in Pieces (black with purple microglitter)

12489 Once Upon A Time (black with small red glitter and medium red microglitter.  Possible Lippmann Ruby Red Slippers dupe.)

 Revlon Halloween 2012 Nail Collection:

Black Magic (black creme)

Haunted Heart (orange with gold shimmer)

Spooky Skull (white jelly/creme)

Wicked Star (blue-green base with yellow-green duochrome shimmer)

Revlon Halloween nail art stencils in Mustaches, Spiders and Skulls.

There were a few other stencil designs, but I don't remember all of them.

 

Sally Hansen Lustre Shine Nail Color Collection for Fall 2012

The entire Lustre Shine collection is duochrome/multichrome. Brings back memories of my beloved Sally Hansen Nail Prisms!  There were a few other colors that I didn't grab because they were dupes of other colors that came out already this year, but I'll probably grab the rest when they go on sale.  But I had to have these:

003 Firefly (mave-bronze-green-gold multichrome)

006 Lava (pink-magenta-bronze-orange glass fleck multichrome)

008 Copperhead (bronze-gold-green-purple-blue multichrome)

  NYC In A New York Color Minute Quick Dry Nail Polish in Python Green.

This was on a new Fall 2012 collection display along with a purple polish that didn't look very interesting and a couple of lipglosses, shadow palettes and eyeliners.  This color was the only thing that caught my eye; it's a golden olive green with a slightly smoky-looking base and a subtle duochrome shift.  

I'm still waiting for all the other Halloween-themed makeup collections to hit the stores, but so far this is all I've found.  Pretty cool, though!

Silver Spiders Halloween Manicure

My first official Halloween design of the year! I can't believe it took me so long to do one. I have so many ideas in my head but then they never turn out quite like I imagined them when I actually try them on my nails... But, happily, this one came out perfect!


This one is a Bundlemonster stamp (both images are from the same plate) in Sally Hansen Chrome Nail Makeup in Black Pearl Chrome over NYC Blackula. The ring finger has one of those Cina Haunted Nights decals (the little spider with a red and orange gem accent). The old Sally Hansen was perfect for the stamp and the Cina decal applied easily and looks rather good with a coat of topcoat over it.

Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the NYC Blackula polish. It's horrible. I've used NYC Black before and thought it was awful and the Blackula version is just as bad. It's runny, watery, streaky and has a really annoying flat brush. All it wanted to do is run off my nail and pool in my cuticles, plus it chipped off my thumb in a huge chunk the very next day. I haven't had that much trouble applying a polish in a loooooong time. With all the good, cheap, one-coat black polishes out there, I don't know how NYC's can be this terrible. True, I only bought it for the name and had no expectations of quality, but come on... At least give me a good brush to work with.

I do not recommend the NYC Black/Blackula polish, but the plain old Wet n Wild Black Creme (99 cents!) is amazing if you're looking to add a good, solid, easy to apply, fast drying, one-coat black polish to your collection. It's my favorite. That and Illamasqua Boosh, but there's a pretty big price difference there.

Starting to get off topic here... I did the other hand without the spiders to see which I liked better:
I like both. I like the spiders, makes it look a little less empty, but the spiderwebs alone look just as cool. I should do the stamp sideways as french tips... bet that would look interesting.

NYC New York Color Black Magic Halloween Collection 2011

Another Halloween-themed collection for me to drool over... This is NYC's Black Magic collection that's supposed to hit stores in September. Some people have seen it in stores already, like my buddy Tammie who teased me with pictures on Twitter :)

They have polishes named Pumpkin and Blackula! I NEED THEM.



Ultra Last Lipwear shades ($1.99): Blood Red, Blackula and Ghostly White

Kiss Gloss Shades ($2.99): Blood Red, Blackula and Ghostly White

IndividualEyes in Dark Shadows ($4.99)

In a NY Color Minute Nail Color ($1.99): Blackula and Pumpkin

Volumzing Mascara ($2.99): Extreme Black

Self Adhesive Eyelashes ($1.99): Batty


Not pictured: Liquid Liner ($2.99): Black