Topic Tuesday: colors for Halloween

This is a fun prompt, from #topictues: top 5 colors to wear for Halloween. Not that I think my choices are any different from what anybody else is going to pick, but it's a good excuse to put some pictures up illustrating my choices.

1. black, of course
2. pumpkin orange
3. offbeat greens, or lime green
4. purple
5. yellow and gold

Black
I don't see any point in putting up a picture of a black creme, because they all look alike. There are some fun black and near-black things around, though, like Triple Shine Slick Black:

This is discontinued, unfortunately. For the record, I go with your basic Wet n Wild Black Creme if I want, well, a black creme. I also have Cult Nails Fetish which is a "wax finish" black, which is kind of cool and different. Just a matte black isn't going to look all that different, really, though. I should say that in practice I rarely wear black alone, even at Halloween. I might do a black accent nail, or a "skittles" manicure in all of these colors. That seems like a good choice for the week of Halloween.

Orange
For an orange, well, here's one you can still buy (not an affiliate link), Zoya Destiny, which is a PixieDust (aka texture):

It looks very coral here, but I found that when you get into multiple coats it reads as more of a plain orange. Here's another couple that I'm partial to which are probably discontinued:

This is Orly Retro Red (which again, totally reads as orange, at least if you like your oranges on the red-orange side, which I do) and OPI Y'all Come Back Ya Hear? which leans a little more yellow (and is also jellyish - I think OPI calls this a "sorbet"). I showed Retro Red a while back when I talked about fall colors - I think I must have been talking about layering when I took the pictures with the skull backgrounds, because it's two different pictures but they both have Retro Red in them. Anyway, I poked around and I saw the OPI on eBay, but Retro Red was also around for ages so it might be findable as well.

Offbeat Greens
I like weird greens so much I have a tag for them ("funky green") and I've talked about them a lot. I need to make sure I wear China Glaze It's Alive this year, because I bought it last year and didn't wear it because I swore at some point to wear orange until the Astros lost, and by the time the playoffs were over, and they won, it was November and Halloween was over and I was out of the mood to wear it. (I wanted to wear something copper, I think.) Really, I don't know why I couldn't have gone ahead and worn it. It was silly not to. Sometimes I get carried away with the whole "seasonal" thing. I decided that this year the Astros are going to have to survive without visible support on my nails.

This is discontinued, too, but I found it on eBay or somewhere, and I didn't pay a mint for it, either, so it's not completely unobtainable. There are probably other similar things around, too.

Purple
I'm middle-aged, so I can tell you that the Halloween palette has changed over the years. It used to be pretty much just orange and black and maybe yellow accents, but somewhere over the years other colors got added - that seems to mostly be green and purple.

Above is Zoya Carter, which is another PixieDust and is also a current color. This is my very favorite PixieDust, in fact.

This is OPI Feel The Chemis-tree from last Christmas, so it should still be around. It's a dark red-violet with some shift going on.


Yellow and Gold
I don't wear yellow so I don't have any examples - it's the only color I've never ever bought. It's just spectacularly unflattering on me. But I do have quite a lot of metallic gold. I was going to use KL Polish Casino Night as an example of something currently available, but it's actually sold out right now. Still, presumably it will be back eventually.

(You might not be able to get this exact polish before Halloween, but there are a ton of metallic golds around. I have faith in your ability to find something!)