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! 

Golden Autumn Leaves- Fall Nail Design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a nice fall. This year has been a weird fall, especially where I live it has been warm for fall, now that it is the end of November it is starting to feel cold and more fall or winter like. Anyways today we have matte and glossy fall nail design that we will be creating. The leaves will be on a brown matte background and just to add some color, we will be add some gold as well.

 

Fall Leaves Nail Design  

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

  

Base and Top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat, Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat, for a matte look; NYC- Matte Me Crazy topcoat.

Nail polishes- NYC- Brownstone, Revlon- Gold Coin, and China glaze- white on white.

Acrylic paint- white, red, yellow, blue. (red & yellow to make orange, and red, yellow, and blue to make brown.) 

Nail art tools- a thin detail and liner brush and a small dotting tool.

Other- small glass jar or cup with water in it to clean nail art brushes. 

Let's start this fall design! 

Close up of leaf design on middle and ring finger nail. 

 
 Close up of leaf design on thumb nail.

Start off with a thin layer of base coat, to protect your nails. 

Then polish your ring, middle, and thumb nail brown and your pinky and index finger nail gold.

Once your base color has dried, we will first make the outline of the leaves with white paint, this will help the colors for the leaves to stand out.  

On all three nails I made a few random leaf shapes, their really is no certain way that you do this design.  You can make a simple leaf with only one point, or a leaf with more then one point.

Once you have the white outline of the leaves and that has dried, you take an orange, red and yellow paint and start to paint the leaves. For example some of the leaves I would start off with a yellow and then take a orange and go over that, while some yellow is still showing. For the leaves it is okay if you don't clean off your brush each time, it gives a nice blend of color when you do this. 

When you have the leaves the colors that you want, take a brown paint or if you don't have one mix red, yellow and a little bit of blue to make a brown. This will be for the vein of the leaves. For the veins just make a line down the center then, a few lines to follow the outline of the leaves.

When I had added all of the leaves to the design, it just felt like it was missing something. So with a small dotting tool I added a few white dots with some white polish, making sure to add just a few, that way you can still see the brown background.

 

 Fall Leaves Nail Design.

Then once your fall nail design has dried apply a glossy top coat to all of your nails. Once your glossy top coat has dried, on the nails that you did the fall leaves design on apply a matte top coat to give this design a different look. You may need to go over the glossy top coat again to make sure your nails are all matte.

I thought adding the matte top coat on the leaf design would be great for a fall look, along with a touch of sparkle/ color with a glossy gold color. Also the white dots I put into this design kind of look like snow, and this is kind of fitting for the weird fall that we have been having (depending on where you live) because one day this week the weather was in the 70's the next day in the 30's and light snow. I know crazy! 

 

 

   Fall Leaves design on middle and ring finger nail

Want another option? On my right hand I did the leaf design on just my middle and ring finger nail and polished my thumb, index and pinky gold. This maybe an even simpler option for you, if you just want the design on two finger or you could even just do this design on your ring finger as a accent nail.

Hope all of you enjoyed this fall leaf design! Also have a nice Thanksgiving!

See you next time for more nail fun!