I didn’t have a bat immediate for this Halloween, so in fact I needed to discover a strategy to sneak them in as a result of I really like bats. I had this design sketched up final yr of little bats delivering pumpkins so when the jack-o-lantern immediate got here up, I knew what I used to be going to color. I ended up altering my design just a little bit as a result of I not preferred what I had on the thumb. Plus though I used the smallest letters, the phrase “pumpkin supply” was too massive to suit throughout some other nail than my thumb. Woops. However it nonetheless turned out and I bought to characteristic some tremendous cute bats.

It’s solely a minor crime that I didn’t make the orange nail glow in the dead of night. Sorry!

Nail artwork merchandise used

Base Polishes:

BCB Lacquer’s “Haunted Lane and Maniology’s “Pumpkin Head“

Stamping Polish:

UberChic’s “Pure Black“

Reverse Stamping Polishes:

Maniology’s “Sweet Apple“, “Marzipan“, “Pumpkin Head“, and “Woolly“

Stamping Plates:

Apipila’s “Ghosts“ (large jack-o-lantern)

Trend Catastrophe “Kawaii Halloween 1“ (massive bat carrying a jack-o-lantern)

Trend Catastrophe “Kawaii Halloween 2” (small bat carrying a jack-o-lantern)

“MouTeen-018“ (“Pumpkin Supply” letters)

Objects in italics are debuting on the weblog for the primary time.

First brush with a Supersizer stamper

One other factor I bought to do with this mani is check out one of many new sorts of Supersizer stampers. I’ve really had a shrink stamper for years, however it’s very awkward to make use of it to make a stamping picture greater. Now I used one of many knock-offs from Aliexpress, however I can be shopping for the unique from Moyra as a result of they do deserve my cash for placing on a regular basis into growing it. I did, nonetheless, need to see in the event that they labored first since I spent the cash on Maniology’s awkward try and by no means used it as a result of I already had one thing that labored higher. These work although. You simply have to recollect to arrange the stamper appropriately for shrinking or increasing a picture. *cough*

I expanded each the bigger bat and the large pumpkin picture. I used to be not capable of broaden the bat to the utmost measurement as a result of that will have distorted the picture an excessive amount of. However I bought shut and painted some clear polish on high and when that dried eliminated it. Then I stuffed it in and stamped it on my nail after throwing some sticky base coat down first.

For the pumpkin I wasn’t going to have to paint something in so I attempted utilizing the picture whereas it was nonetheless on the stamper. Very awkward. The stamping head is evident, however all the things is in the best way so you possibly can’t see what you’re doing as clearly. (Plus the screw remains to be urgent into it from beneath and that feIt bizarre.) I ended up inserting it just a little excessive. I used what remained on the stamper to fill within the backside of the nail, which solely labored as a result of it’s a scribbly form of picture.

Last Supersizer ideas (for now)

• Utilizing it to shrink is straightforward since you’re pushing the stamping head out first after which you possibly can unscrew all the things to shrink it. Which means you possibly can take the entire screw half out in the event you’re stamping instantly on the nail.
• Increasing is trickier as a result of all the things is in the best way. It’s going to be simpler to make a decal out of it with clear polish and take away it from the stamper head. Particularly in the event you’re engaged on the picture extra.
• Identical to with different shrink stampers, the shrinking will not be straight throughout. The picture can be distorted in a radial sample so this received’t work effectively with issues like very exact stripes.
• All the time return the stamper to the unexpanded state. I don’t assume it could be good for the stamping head to stay stretched out when not in use.
• Tremendous great tool. I’m glad I’ve it so I can broaden photographs in addition to shrink them. After I purchase the unique (good day, black friday gross sales), it will likely be from Lantern and Wren.

Merchandise was bought with my very own cash. I’m not affiliated with any nail product makers at present.

Last bat nail artwork images

Till subsequent time, associates! 🙋‍♀️