Happy Halloween- Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy Halloween! I was planning on do this post a few days before Halloween, as you can see that did not happen, I am posting this on Halloween, which is ok too. It has just been a long tiring week and I did not get a chance to finish this post before Halloween. Anyways 

today on the blog we will be creating a cute Halloween design with pumpkins and a ghost. 

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this Halloween nail design:

Base and top coat- Orly- Bonder Base Coat (been trying another base coat) and CND Super Shiney Top Coat.

Polishes- Holo Taco- Rainbow Collection-Orange Drink, Holo Taco- Electric Holo Collection- Hot - Wire Pink, Holo Taco- Rainbow Collection- Purple Slushie, Holo Taco- Electric Holo Collection- Electrostatic, and Holo Taco- Electric Holo Collection- Circuit Breaker.

Acyclic paint- black, white, green, yellow, and red (to make orange)

Nail art brushes- thin striper and detail brush.  

Other- makeup sponge for gradients, and water to clean off nail art brushes. 

Apply a top coat to clean dry nails, let that dry. 

Polishes- 

Thumb, ring and pinky finger nails- Orange holographic polish ( the base color for the thumb and pinky nails.)

Index nail- Silver holographic polish. 

Middle finger nail- Black holographic polish.

Gradient on the Thumb and Pinky Finger Nails- 

First we will start off with gradient on the thumb and pinky finger nails. On the pinky finger nail we will not be have nail art over the gradient, just on the thumb nail. 

First we need to apply a liquid around the fingers to help with clean up and to make doing gradients much easier. 

For the gradient part take a makeup sponge and polish a purple holographic polish (Holo Taco- Purple Slushie) and slightly over lapping the polish a pink holographic polish (Holo Taco- Hot Wire Pink), then once agin slightly over lapping the polish, with the same color you used as your base color the orange holographic polish (Holo Taco- Orange Drink.)

Then dab the sponge on to each nail, you will need to repeat this step at least two times to be opaque.  

Once you have finished your gradient peel off your liquid latex with some tweezers. 

Pumpkin on the Thumb Nail-

Once you are finished with the gradient on the pumpkin. First take a thin detail brush with white paint on it, (we will first make the outline/ shape of the pumpkin with white) to make your pumpkin make an apple like shape in the middle of the nail, fill that in a few times to be opaque. We are first making an outline of the pumpkin in white, that way it will show more over our gradient.

Once your white outline has dried take an orange or mix red and yellow to make an orange, and fill in your white pumpkin shape at lest three times to be opaque, let that dry. 

For your pumpkin's face make three triangles, first the one in the middle for the nose and then two above that for the eyes, then fill that in with black paint.

For the pumpkins smile, make a curved line under the triangle nose, then at the top of the curved line make a straight line on each side making a small square for the tooth, then fill in the smile with black paint. 

For the final touch, make a green stem at the top of the pumpkins head and then two curved lines for the vines. 

Pumpkin on the Ring Finger Nail-

On to the pumpkin on the ring finger nail, we will be using the whole nail of the pumpkin and just making a face on the nail. First take a thin striper brush with black paint on it and make a triangle in the middle of the nail for the nose (I accidentally made the nose to big), then make two triangles above the nose for the eyes, fill in the triangles with black paint. 

For the pumpkins smile, make a curved line under the triangle nose, then at the top of the curved line make a straight line on each side making a small square for the tooth, then fill in the smile with black paint. This tooth I made a little bigger. 

Ghost on the Middle Finger Nail- 

Lastly we will be making a little ghost on the middle finger nail. Take a thin detail brush with white paint on it make a circle for the head, then two oval shapes for the arms, and then make a two curved line for his body to where it make a tale near the tip of the nail. Then fill in your ghost a lest three times to opaque. 

For the ghost eyes and mouth, take a medium size dotting tool with black paint on and and make two dots for the eyes and then a lager dot for the mouth, you can always use a paint brush to make the mouth a little bigger. 

Once your nails are ready for tricks or treats apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last through all of the candy eating that you will be doing. 

Hope everyone has a safe and Happy Halloween and of course hope all of you enjoyed this cute Halloween nail design! 

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Ocean Gradient- Blue Gradient Nails

Hello everyone! Today on the blog I felt like do another gradient, that is kind of summer like an ocean colored gradient. The polishes from the Starrily Northern Light collection were just calling to me to create an ocean like gradient, with a touch of gold glitter in the gradient, or that I just thought it would look pretty. Since trying the a liquid latex around my finger for gradients, it has been so much easier to do and I feel like I have gotten much better at gradients, if you are not allergic to latex and are having trouble with gradients this is a great way to improve on them, it's a game changer. 

Also if you if you have seen my other post this color combo might look a little familiar, I did create a tropical design this summer with a similar color palette, the dark blue was near the cuticle and the light was near the tips of the nails. If you missed that post and would like to check that out here is the link ocean-view-tropical-nail-design

Anyways back to the creating the nail gradient. Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this ocean gradient.

Base and Top coat- Not shown, I have been trying out the Orly Bonder Base, 

The CND Stickey base has been a go to for many years. Top coat- CND Super Shiney Top Coat.

Polishes- Starrily- Northen Lights- Polar Lights- Magnetic, Starrily- Northen Lights- Polar Lights- Magnetic, and Starrily- Northen Lights- Golden Starlight. 

Other- Makeup sponge for gradients and Liquid latex. 

Apply a top coat to clean dry nails, let that dry.

Polish all the nails with a light blue/ shimmer (Starrily- Polar Lights)

Let that dry.

Once your base polish has dried, we can create the gradient. First we need to apply a liquid around the fingers to help with clean up and to make doing gradients much easier. 

For the gradient part take a makeup sponge and first polish your dark blue (Starritly- Oceanic Moonlight) and then slightly over lapping the polish the same color you used as your base color the light blue/ green (Starrily- Polar Lights.)

Then dab the sponge on to each nail, you will need to repeat this step at least two times to be opaque.  

Once you have finished your gradient peel off your liquid latex with some tweezers. 

For an added touch you can apply a gold reflective polish (Starrily- Golden Starlight.) This polish I did only apply one coat, which made it all little to subtle and I wish I would have a least applied two coat so it would be more visible. Above is a photo that I got the gold to show at  a certain angle. 

Once you are happy with your ocean gradient, apply a top coat to add a shine and to help your nails last.

Hope all of you enjoy this ocean blue gradient nails.

See you next time for more nail fun!