Hallows Eve- Halloween Nail Design

Hello everyone! Anyone have any fun plans for Halloween? Not me I will just be working at the salon. It has been a while since I really did anything for Halloween, growing up my favorite part was getting a lot of candy when we went trick or treating. 
If you do plan on going to any Halloween parties, or even just staying in for the night, this design we will be creating today would be great for any plan that you have for Halloween.  

 

 

For the gradient we will use yellow polish (Sinful Color-Let's Meet), an orange (Sally Hansen- xterme wear- Sun kisses), and a black and white glitter (Revlon- Rebel graffiti.)  

Your background colors we will use an off white (Essie- Coconut Cove) for the thumb, a darker orange(Sally Hansen- Triple Shine- Play Koi) for the middle finger nail, and a black polish (Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart) for the ring finger nail.

The small details/ the nail art itself we will use acrylic paint and a small detail and liner brush. 

   For any design start off with a nice thin coat of base coat (CND Stickey Base) to protect your nails. Once your base coat has dried, apply a white on the thumb nail, a yellow on the index and pinky nail, a darker orange on the middle finger nail, and a black on the ring finger nail. 

On the thumb nail we will make a kitty sitting on top of a pumpkin. First make a pumpkin shape with your detail brush and orange paint, you may need to go over this a few times to be opaque. Once the orange has dried take you detail brush make two circles for the eyes, and an oval for the nose, and for the mouth make a curved line near the tip of the nail and then paint some squares for the teeth.  

For your kitty make a round shape for the head, two triangles for the ears, and two paws on the pumpkin, then a curved line for it's tail, then fill that in with black paint. Once the black has dry paint two eyes and a nose with white paint.

   For your gradient on the ring and pinky nail, paint just the top part near the cuticle with an orange, only going half way down then nail, then take that same yellow that you painted the whole nail with and paint over just the bottom half of that orange to blend the colors. After that has dried take a black and white glitter polish and polish mainly over the yellow, have more glitter on the yellow and just a little on the orange, just like a gradient. 

Now on to the Jack o lantern, with a small detail brush and black paint make two triangles near the cuticle for it's eyes, then one in the center for it's nose, for the mouth first draw a curved line then fill that in and then make three small squares for teeth.  

 

Lastly we will be creating two ghost, with a liner brush and white paint make an arch shape on the corners of the nail and fill that in for the body, then make two arms on the sides. Once the white part of the ghost has dried, take a thin detail brush with black paint and make two eyes and a bigger dot for the mouth, you can also use a dotting tool for this as well.

 

Once your spooky (well not so much, more cute then anything) Halloween design has dried apply a top coat to protect your nails and to help your design last longer. 

Hope all of you have a fun an safe Halloween!

See you next time for more nail fun!