Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Halloween Nails


I seriously spent an entire day doing this. It got a little time consuming. These designs are all ones that I have seen online over the years and stood out to me or ones that I kinda just thought up. I hand painted every one and didn't use any tools other than dotters and nail brushes. Easy! Feel free to click that appointment button to get your nails done:) For further instructions and colours look below!


Spider web (top centre): Paint nail solid white first. I used an old bottle I had to try and use it up, but any white works. Or purple or orange or green for that matter! Any colour works. Once your base coat has dried use a nail brush to paint out straight lines from one place on your nail and then connect them with curved smaller lines in between. For drawing long straight lines your long and skinny nail brush works best. I'd get creative with that design. Maybe a gold web on red nail? Endless possibilities ;)

Slime (next to the right): Paint the nail a medium to dark purple and let dry. Next use a shorter nail brush to paint on the green slime! Simple and one of my favourites on the wheel.

Ghost: Paint your nail solid white and let it dry. Next use a shorter nail brush to paint on eyes and a mouth in the shape you want.

Black cat: Paint the nail any base colour you want. I chose yellow because that's how I saw it done and loved it. Use a fine nail brush to start painting the neck of the cat and then the head. Once you have the basic shape drawn in add whiskers and ears and finally white dots for the eyes. Once the eyes have dried add a little line in them to make those cat eyes.

Bloody french manicure: Paint a curved french manicure on your nails. Using the finest nail brush you have use a darker red colour to paint blood drops on in the way you want.

Jack-O-Lantern: Paint your nails a solid orange colour and let dry. Next use a basic nail brush to paint on the jack-o-lantern face you want. Endless design options! I went with a basic on for the nail wheel. You could also do different designs on all your nails.

Spider: Paint your nails any base colour you want. I went with white. Once it dries start by drawing  a line down your nail. Next draw the oval body of the spider. Once that is done you can add the legs and last the eyes with a dotting tool.

Glowing ghosts: Paint your nail any colour you want that the white ghosts will stand out on. I went with one of my new sparkle polishes because that's how I saw it done and I like the added glamour. Next paint on little white ghosts in whatever pattern you want. After I painted them on white I also went over them in glow-in-the-dark polish so they are fun in the dark too. Last paint on their faces however you want.

Pumpkin: For this one you can paint your nail with a base colour or leave it bare for a french manicure effect. Once your base has dried paint orange in a pumpkin shape at the tip of your nail. Let that dry and then draw black lines in the shape of the pumpkin. I also used a darker orange for shading.

Mummy: This could look good in any light brown or white colour. Paint your nails the colour you want and then let it dry. Next paint black stripes on your nails leaving one space large enough for the eyes. Last use your dotting tool to create the eyes.

Blood splatter: Paint your nails a white base colour and let dry. Get a straw and suck up a little amount of red paint (I recommend testing this out first on paper). Blow out the paint onto your nail and you should get a blood splatter effect!

Jack (next two nails): Paint your nails white and let dry. Use nail brushes to paint all the details on. Just takes a steady hand! These nails are very popular this year.

Graveyard: For this one paint on a dark blue colour as your base and sky. Once it dries you can paint on little stars or leave the sky dark. Paint on a moon either in a yellow colour or beige. I put glow-in-the-dark paint over my moon as well. At the bottom paint a tombstone in grey and carefully put the letters "RIP" over it. Use a fine brush to paint birds or bats over the moon.

Eyes: This has to be one of the easiest and cutest ones here. Paint your nails completely black. Once it dries use a dotter tool to paint white circles anywhere on the nail. Once that dries you can go over it with a glow-in-the-dark polish if you want. Last put black dots in the centre of the white ones to complete the eyes.

Candy corn: There are many ways you can do this and I would stick to whatever works best for you. There are no cuticles around these nails to get in the way so I simply painted on each colour separate. If you want you could also use tape. Another option is to sponge on the colour like a gradient.

Frankenstein: Paint your nails a green base colour. Once it dries paint on the eyes white and then second all the black parts. I added grey streaks into his hair.

Frankenstein french manicure: Paint a green tip on your nails however you want. Once it dries add a black line and then little stitches.


Whew! That was a lot of typing. Hope that helped. If you want to see tutorials for any of these let me know. Drop a comment for what theme of design wheel you want to see next.

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