Happy Halloween all! Halloween Nail Art

Happy Halloween to you all. I entered into the halloween spirit this year with these sets of nails.
They were all so simple to do and I hope they prove useful in your weekend halloween celebrations.

Skull

1 - One or two coats of white nail varnish (I used L.A. Colors which I can get really cheap in London)
2 - Using either a thin brush dipped in black, a black nail art pen or the special bottles of fast drying decorative nail varnish create the outlines of the cheekbones and fill in the corners of your tip in black
3 - Then using a dotting tool dipped in black or your thin brush if you arent ham fisted like me, create the 2 dots for the eyes and the slits for the nose, then finally the very simple mouth

Spider Web

Very easy but requires a steady hand, I think this decoration looks best against a bare nail but it can be used on top of any halloween design

1- Starting in one of the bottom or top corners of the nail paint using a thin brush black lines radiating out, I think it looks best if they get paler towards the ends of each line
2- Join the lines with slightly curved shorter lines inbetween

Blood drops

I love this design, I do it often when I dress as a corpse bride for fancy dress or fright night themed events.

1- tip the nail with a nice blood colour (I used Mavala Tobago shade which has a lovely shade to it, its quite expensive for the quantity you get but a brilliant brand, lasts forever) it doesn't matter if the tip is messy as blood doesn't run neatly
2- using a dotting tool create 2 or 3 dots of "blood" at varying distances from the tip, across the nail then join the dots to the tip making them look like running dots of blood

On my right hand as I am awful with detail when painting with my left hand, i simply painted the nail black and added a red black widow marking on top.

Pumpkin

1 - 1 or 2 coats of orange nail varnish (if like me you don't have orange nail varnish, its not a colour I would usually wear then just do some primary school art and combine red and yellow until you have the desired shade)
2 - once that's dry add the green leaves to the top messily as the leaves don't have to be perfect
3 - then add the face, you can vary faces between nails which looks really good if you do the design across each nail (I used L.A. Colors Art Deco lacquer brush for the designs)

Frankenstein 

Don't really need to explain this one its simple, green nail then the black stitch marks across it, but if you want Frankenstein nails across all you fingers you can add a silver bolt to the little finger and thumb, maybe messy black hair line on the middle finger, or even very simplified faces on them.

Once all your designs are done finish the design with a top coat to protect them.

Remember, while nail varnish that is reaaaaalllllly artistic looks lovely, if like me you haven't got an artistic bone in your body, these simplified designs can work just as well and are just as effective.

Thanks for reading hope you liked the designs, feel free to comments or suggest designs in the comment box.