Digits Design Series: I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Halloween! Design #4-Grave Danger

I must say, as much as I love, love, love Halloween, it has been getting more and more difficult for me to come up with some inspired designs. I don't know what's up with that. I think I'm mentally stuck in the box labeled "orange, black, green, and purple only". Limiting myself to the traditional Halloween colors seems to be dampening my creativity. And, of course, I'm seeing inspiration everywhere now for different (non-Halloween related) designs that I can't wait to try. But since I put forth this challenge for myself, I'm determined to see it through, creativity be damned.

So, without further a do, here's the latest of my creations. I contemplated doing the graveyard design on all of my fingers, but sometimes I feel repeating the same pattern on the entire hand can be a bit obnoxious looking (which reminds me I need to post a polka-dot mani I did a while back that was fun on day hour one then started to get the obnoxious vibe). I also really liked the all white look so I wanted to have the best of both worlds:

 

 

 Even though I feel I could have done more with this one, I really liked how it turned out. I did get pretty frustrated with my black striper brush and polish. It's some cheap stuff I got from 5 Below and gets gloopy quick (even with the polish thinner I bought especially for that polish) and the brush pretty much sucks. It has these random strands that are longer than the others and don't cooperate. The white polish is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On.

I actually stamped some skulls and crossbones on my thumbs (which I purposely left out of the pictures since I broke BOTH of the nails...crap!) on the third day of this manicure (forgot to take pictures) just to see what it would look like and to get some practice with stamping. They came out...eh.