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When I was perusing the internet in search of inspiration for this year's Halloween nails, a style that really jumped out at me is what I like to call "blobby abstracts" with spooky Halloween stamping. As a big fan of some blobbiness, I knew that I had to put together my own version of this style and I knew just the plate I wanted to use to create it - the Pueen Halloween Party 01 Stamping Plate! 

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With any blobby design, I feel like color story is pretty important. For this one, I decided to go with a slightly pinky sheer base color just to sort of neutralize the look of my natural nails and disguise any imperfections in my nail bed. For the blobs, I decided to go with four bright colors. Purple, orange and green, in my opinion, are the Halloweenest colours of all, so of course I grabbed for those, and I also grabbed for a  bright neon pink because it just fit the vibe. 

I started by applying one coat of my sheer base polish to all of my nails and let that dry down.

I took the blobs really, really easy on this one, applying them straight from the brush and trying not to be overly precious about the placement and shape. I think that's a huge thing when it comes to getting a successful blobby design - you just have to be a little loosey goosey about it. 

For the stamping, the images I wanted to use were a bit bigger than the scale I was looking for with this design, so I took the opportunity to use my Moyra Supersizer Stamper for the first time. This allowed me to shrink the images down just enough that they gave me the scale I was looking for to go with the blobs. Once the stamping was finished, I felt like I needed just a wee bit more, so I went in with a dotting tool and added some clustered dots to each nail just to add a little something.

Once I was happy with my design, I sealed everything in with a nail art top coat and then followed with a generous layer of glossy top coat. And voila!

You really can't go wrong with a blobby abstract nail design, in my opinion, but I do think it really did end up working perfectly for Halloween with this color story and these images from the Pueen Halloween Party 01 Stamping Plate. If you're interested in picking it up, it is available from Amazon!