I had yet to do a traditional orange and black Halloween manicure and when I stumbled across this one by Rina Alcantara with black kitties! I instantly thought of my little Hemingway when I saw this manicure and in honor of black kitties everywhere, I thought I would dedicate this one to him and to advocate adopting your furbabies from a shelter because there are just SO MANY cats who need forever homes and I am fortunate to have Hugo and Hemi in my life.
For this manicure, I decided to use Picture Polish Autumn because it was a) awesome and b) something a bit different than your standard orange cream polish. I mean, it is just a holographic stunner!
Next, I hand drew the kitties with black acrylic paint, dotted on their eyes with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in White* and then their noses with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Carnation Pink*. While this was all drying, I dotted on some random polka dots in Sally Hansen CSM in Hooked on Onyx*.
Finally, I used acrylic paint to draw little black lines on the white to finally give these guys some sight! I sealed everything in with top coat and was so happy with how cute this turned out! Hemingway is a lot chubbier than the kitties on my nails, but I think he would be pleased as well!
Who else loves black cats? Having only had one first the first time in my life now, I have to say that after chatting with various black cat owners, they all seem to have very "special" personalities!
You can purchase Picture Polish Autumn at Harlow and Co. and all Sally Hansen polishes at all major drugstores.
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