This year I decided to go for a zombie look for Dare to Wear's annual Halloween costume contest. I saw these awesome nails on Pinterest and decided to use them for inspiration. I'm not nearly as talented as the person who painted those, but I think my nails give that "just crawled out of the grave" vibe nonetheless. Plus, you can make these using just nail polish.
I intended to take pictures of the stages, but it ended up taking some trial and error, removing polish and adding it back, before I got the "bruising" to a point where I was okay with it. Thus, my instructions don't fully capture the process I went through. Hopefully you can replicate these without those issues, but if it takes a few tries, you're in good company.
Materials:
*Clear base coat
*White nail polish
*Dark purple nail polish
*Lavender nail polish
*Magenta nail polish
*Crimson nail polish
*Nail art brush
*Makeup sponge or sponge brush
Directions:
*Start by painting your nails as you would for a French manicure.
*Sponge on dark purple around the base of the nails to create bruising.
*Sponge on a light layer of lavender nail polish to tone down the dark purple a little.
*Sponge a little bit of magenta around the edges of the "bruising.". Let dry.
*Use the nail art brush to draw on "cracks" in the nails in crimson.
*Add crimson "bloodstains" to the tips of the nails and sponge on some crimson along the skin beneath the nails.
Undying Love Photo Shoot
For Dare to Wear's contest, I wanted to do something with the Sweetheart Top in scarlet. The red roses remind me of Valentine's Day and Valentine's Day reminds me of zombies, so I decided to go with a zombie themed shoot I called "Undying Love." Here are the photos that I thought captured the story.
Other Zombie Photos
I also took some photos that didn't really fit into the narrative. And since I have my zombie romper, I thought it would be funny to do a zombie shoot in a zombie romper, so we did a second photo shoot with the zombie romper. I'm so glad we did that second shoot too, because I feel like I really got into character with that one and some of the pics are pretty creepy.
This was probably my favorite photo shoot I've done. The nice thing about being a zombie is that you don't have to worry about looking pretty. I didn't have to smile. I spent the two hours Brian was photographing me growling and gnashing my teeth. This may sound weird, but I had a ton of fun pretending to be a zombie.
The pics that follow are just a small sample of the ones Brian shot, and I love each one of them.
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