Things are going to get messy- Halloween Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy Halloween! Today we will be creating something a little bit different for Halloween, well for me. I usually like to create more cute nail designs, but for this Halloween I decided to go outside of the box for this design and I ended up really liking it and having fun creating this design, the only thing is this design is a little bit messy! 

 

Halloween Nail Design

Here are the polishes and tools for this creepy messy nail design: 

 

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat, Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat, and NYC- Matte Me Crazy topcoat. 

Polishes- Essie- Coconut Cove, Sally Hansen- xterme wear- Sun kissed, and Sally Hansen- Triple Shine- Lemon Shark. 

Acrylic paint- Red and black 

Nail art brushes- flat brush, thin detail brush, thin stripper brush, and a very small detail brush. 

Other- a make up sponge and a small cup of water.

Warning!! Things are going to get Messy!!

 

 Halloween Nail Design

As always start off with a base coat to protect your nail and to help your nail design to last, even thought this bloody mess you may not want to last.

Once you base coat has dried polish your index, middle, and ring finger nail with a off white polish, then your thumb orange and your ring finger nail yellow.    

*For this part I strongly suggest using paint and not nail polish and to polish your other hand last, this step is very messy and your other hand will be all red at the end! Also make sure to have something down on your surface that you do your nails, I use a nail mat.*  

 

 Halloween Nail Design

Let your base polishes dry, then let's get to making a mess. We will first start off with the blood splatter on the index, middle, and ring finger nail. First we need to make our blood take a red paint and add the smallest amount of black to it, or until your red looks blood like.

Then water down your red paint so it is very watery, this will make it easier to splatter. Take a flat brush and make sure your brush is soaked with the red paint/ blood, then with your other hand and one finger (or like make end up getting it all over your hand) flick your brush at your nail to make the blood splatter, your will need to do this step many times. Then I also took my finger (because as stated above your other hand will be all red and messy) and dabbed a few spots on the nails.       

Then once your splatter is just right, you can go wash your other hand of all the red paint/ blood or the evidence. (just kidding, their is no real blood used in this design)

 

 Halloween Nail Design

Next we will be creating a spooky scene on our ring finger nail. First take makeup sponge with black paint on it and sponge the black paint near the tip of the nail and near the cuticle, make sure to leave some of the yellow showing in the middle of the nail.

Then make a tombstone near the side of your nails. Then on both side with a thin stripping brush make thin lines that will look like tree branches. 

 

 Halloween Nail Design

Last but not least is the pumpkin in a spooky scene. For this nail repeat the step that you did for the last nail, with the black paint and the sponge, and once again leave some of the orange in the middle showing.

Then we will make the pumpkin on the side of the nail. First make a small circle, do not fill it in, with your very small detail brush make two triangles for his eyes and then make a mouth, fill that in with black, make three curved lines on the pumpkin, lastly add a curved line at the top of the pumpkin.  

Once again just like the ring finger nail make two tress on the sides of the nail.  

 Halloween Nail Design

Then once you have your nail design just right, apply a glossy top coat to all of your nails, then on the blood splattered nails we will apply a matte top coat, once your glossy top coat has dried.  

Hope all of you enjoyed this nail design, even thought blood/gory and scary movies are not my thing. I really enjoyed make this design it was a lot of fun, just kind of a pain to clean up after.

 

Here is the practice design, I used a neural skin tone color and didn't really care for how it turned out, I think it tuned out better on a white base. 

  

Sorry for the big messy I forgot to clean up the white polish and black paint on my nails before taking my photos, see I'm not perfect at polishing my nails, but that's what a clean up brush is for.

 

This is the only way white polish should be worn on the nails, I never got why so many people like a sold white polish on all of their nails. As you can tell I hate white polish along with neutrals, sheer pinks and white toned pinks.     

 

 Just in case you where wonder this is what is on my other hand.

Hope all of you have a fun a safe Halloween!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Purple Gradient and Chevron Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating a simple gradient chevron nail design with purple polishes. For this nail design you can use what ever colors you would like, I just decided to go with purples and a gold background. 

 

Gradient and chevron Nail Design 

Here are the polishes and tools used for this gradient and chevron nail design:

  

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and  Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Polishes- Revlon- Gold Coin, OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini, Zoya Sunshine- Delia, and  China glaze- Shades of Paradise- Board. Optional- Revlon- Holographic Pearls- Transforming Effects.

Nail art supplies- A thin stripper brush if needed for detail work/ clean up the lines, and stripping tape. 

Other- (not shown) small glass dappen dish with acetone in it to clean off nail art brush, tweezers to take stripping tape off of the nails. 

Let start this nail design!

 Purple Gradient and Chevron Nail Design 

Start off with a thin layer of base coat, and let that dry.

For this design you can do the chevron/ gradient on all of your nails or just a few, I decided to do the design on three nails; the thumb, middle and ring finger nails, and keep the index and pinky fingers a solid color.

Once your base coat has dried, polish all of the nails that you are going to do the design on with a gold polish, this is your base color/ gold stripes. 

If you are following the way I have done this design then polish your thumb, middle and ring finger nail gold, then polish your index nail with a dark purple (I used OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini), and then polish your pinky finger nail with a light purple (I used Zoya Sunshine- Delia.) 

 

 

Purple Gradient and Chevron Nail Design 

Once your base colors are pretty much fully dry, we can start the chevron/ gradient design. With the gradient you are suppose to go from lightest to darkest color (or the other way around) but I didn't follow what I just said on the middle and ring finger nail, I did follow what I said on the thumb nail.

 Purple Gradient and Chevron Nail Design

For this design take a piece of stripping tape and cut it in to two pieces, place it on the nail one at a time in a triangle shape. Depending on how long your nail is will determine how many triangle shapes you can do, on my thumb I did three triangles of stripping tape, and then on the middle and ring finger nail, I did two.

Once you have your stripping tape placed, open all of your bottles of polish that way you can get to them easily. Staring near the cuticle polish a light purple or dark, depending on if you are following my color pattern or not, then polish a medium purple or light purple, then right away peel of the tape that you put on that area with tweezers.

* Do not let the polish dry on these two steps, doing this helps to make the lines look cleaner.*

Then for the last color, polish near the tip of the nail dark purple or medium purple and then once again with tweezers take off the stripping tape.

Also if need you can clean up your gold lines with a stripping brush dipped into that same polish. I needed to do this for the medium colored polish, China glaze- Boujee Board because of it being a matte it was acting kind of weird and when I pulled up the tape the polish wanted to come with it a little bit, so I had to go over the gold lines again with a stripping brush to make them look straight.    

 

 

         Purple Gradient and Chevron Nail Design 

As an optional touch I applied a holographic topcoat to this design, but you can always leave it as is. I actually wish when I first did this design that I would have not applied the holo top coat to the chevron/ gradient part, and just applied it to the nails that had not design on it, but as the week went on and I had this on my nails it didn't look to bad and I started to like it. 

Anyways once you have finished your design apply a clear top coat to seal in your design and to help it it last.

Hope all of you enjoyed this design!

See you next time for more nail fun!    

Let's Have Some Milk and Cookies- Cookie Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we kind of have a random nail design that we will be creating, a milk and cookies design. I stumbled across a cute milk and cookie design on Pinterest that I wanted to create for all of you. Fall is my lest favorite time of year for nail art and nail polishes colors and just in general, so a lot of time I will just create random designs like this one. Besides a cute milk and cookies nail design is great for any time of the year. 
What is your favorite way to eat cookies with milk or with out? As for me I like my cookies with out milk and I love any chocolate kind of cookie!

 

Milk and Cookies Nail Design

Here are the nail polishes and nail art tools used to create this cute milk and cookies nail design:  

 

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat. 

Nail Polishes- Pretty& Polished- Donut Ever Let Me Go, Pretty& Polished- Double, Double, Toil and Truffle, and Nicole by OPI- That's Just Plain Nuts!

Acrylic paint- white, black, red, blue, and yellow (to make brown)

Nail art brushes- large and medium size dotting tool, thin detail and liner brush, very small detail brush.

small glass jar or a cup to clean off nail art brushes.   

Let's have some Milk and Cookies or just put them on our nails either way is good!  

 Milk and Cookies Nail Design 

As always every baking recipe needs a good base, along with your nails, first start off by applying a thin layer of base coat and letting that dry. 

As soon as your base coat is dry polish your thumb, middle and pinky finger nail with a light pink that has rainbow glitter/ confetti pieces in it (I used Pretty& Polished- Donut Ever Let Me Go) then on your index and ring finger nail polish that with a brown polish that has copper colored glitter pieces in it (I used Pretty& Polished- Double, Double, Toil and Truffle, I did first polish those two nails with a brown and then used that polish because the polish I used is kind of sheer.) 

* I decide to go with these two desert themed polishes, even if I was not to sure if they fit the whole milk and cookies theme, but I think it did after all. *   

Let your nails bake/ dry.

 

 Milk and Cookies Nail Design

For this design we will only be doing the design on the middle and ring finger nails. 

First we will start off with the cookie on the middle finger nail. With a liner brush with brown paint on it (I had to make a brown paint with red, yellow and blue because I don't have a brown paint already made.) make a circle shape that covers up most of the nail and fill that in. 

Take your extra large doting tool with black paint on it and make two black dots for the cookies eyes. 

Then on to the mouth, take your very small detail brush and make a small curved line under his eyes for his smile. The for the pink cheeks take that same large dotting tool with pink paint on it and make to pink dots next to the smile. 

After you have finished the cookies face on to the chocolate chips. Take a medium size dotting tool with black paint on it and dot random dots all over you cookie.   

Now your cute cookie is all done, he is just to cute to eat or is he? 

Now on to the milk part of this design. On the middle finger nail take your thin detail brush and make a oval shape near the cuticle, this is the rim of the glass, and then make to lines going down from that and a curved line at the bottom for your glass of milk. Then fill in the bottom part with white, that way you have a full glass of milk.

Once again we will be make a cute face on our milk, so just repeat the same steps that you did for the chocolate chip cookies face. 

Their you go you now have a cute milk and cookies nail design that is just to cute to eat.

 

 Milk and Cookies Nail Design

Once you have your milk and cookies nail design the way you like apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last thorough all of your milk and cookie snacks, or at lest a few.

 

 Practice nail design

For some reason I felt like I didn't take enough photos, so I thought I would include the practice design as well to show all of you.

Hope all of you enjoyed this cute milk and cookies nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!