Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!! So, tomorrow is Halloween. I am going share a design which is simply called "Happy Halloween". I know I am too lazy on the naming thing. To achieve this look, you will need a white creme polish, orange creme polish, a yellow texture polish (of course, yellow creme works too), a black glitter polish, a black creme polish, dotting tools or toothpicks and some Scotch tape.

Happy Halloween Nail

1. First, apply base coat to all your nails.

2. Apply black glitter to the thumb, index and pinky. Apply white polish to the middle finger. Apply yellow textured polish to the ring finger.

Happy Halloween Nail base color

3. Put Scotch tape around your nail of the ring finger. Apply orange polish in the middle of your nail. Paint from left to right to get a straight edge.

On the ring finger

4. After it dries, apply white polish on the top part of your nail. Carefully remove the tape.

Ring finger finished

5. Put scotch tape around your nail of the middle finger. Apply black glitter polish to make the stripes. Carefully remove the tape.

Use Scotch tape around your nail on the middle finger

Middle finger finished

6. Take a piece of Scotch tape and fold it in half with the sticky sides out. Use a pair of scissors to cut out half a circle on the folded side. Unfold the tape and you will have a small hole in the middle. It will be the head of the boo. Continue to cut out the bottom part and both hands.
7. Stick the tape on your thumb and apply white polish on it.

Apply white polish on your thumb

8. Carefully remove the tape.

Scotch tape removed

9. Use a dotting tool or a toothpick to draw the eyes and mouth with black polish.

Thumb finished

10. Apply top coat to all of your nails.

Happy Halloween Nail finished

Remember to let the polishes dry completely before putting tapes on them. You can apply a thin coat of fast drying top coat before taping if you like. Before taping, stick the Scotch tape to your hand several times to reduce the stickiness of it. If you make mistakes, use a nail art pen to fix it. It doesn't matter if the surface is uneven. A good top coat will smooth it out.

Some alternatives:
Yellow texture polish: You can use a regular yellow creme polish. I chose the texture polish just because I think it might be fun to make a gumdrop candy corn.
Black glitter polish: The black glitter polish used here is actually a black base with green fine glitter in it. It is not very obvious but I think it looks very "Halloween" so I chose it instead of a regular black polish. You can use a regular black creme or a black glitter of your choice.

Things used:

White polish: wet n wild Wild Shine French White 449C
Orange polish: Essie fear or desire 921
Yellow polish: Nicole by OPI Gumdrop Lemon Lolly NI 427
Black glitter polish: china glaze Smoke and Ashes 1127
Black polish: china glaze Liquid Leather 544

Polishes used in Happy Halloween Nail

 
Below is a graphic version of this tutorial. Hope you will like it.

Happy Halloween Nail tutorial

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(I am not paid and all the materials I used in this post were bought using my own money.)

Icy blue

This week I don't have a theme for my nails. So, I just randomly picked some colors and create this nail design. This is a very simple design and doesn't require much skills and tools. To achieve this look, you will need a sheer white polish, three different shades of mint blue polishes and a silver white textured polish.

1. Apply base coats to all your nails.

2. Apply sheer white polish on your thumb and ring finger.

3. Apply one of the mint blue polish on your index finger.

4. Apply another mint blue polish on your middle finger.

5. Apply silver white texture polish on your pinky.

6. Use a dotting tool to put some dots on your ring finger with all three of the mint blue polish to create a heart shape.

7. Apply top coats to all your nails except your pinky which has the textured polish.

Some alternatives:

1. If you don't have three different shades of mint blue, you can use two or even one. When drawing the dotted heart, use different sizes of dots instead of different colors.

2. Use the round end of a toothpick or a bobby pin if you don't have a dotting tool.

3. Use a white shimmer polish if you don't have a textured polish. Or apply a thin coat of silver glitter over white polish.

4. I chose a sheer white instead of a white creme because I think a sheer white gives a more icy feeling than an opaque white creme. However, the sheer white I used here is quite opaque. It is described as cloudy sheer white on its website. If you don't have a cloudy sheer white, use a white creme instead.

Things used:

Mint blue polish no.1 (used to draw dots only): Sephora by OPI Cartwheels On the Catwalk SE 325

Mint blue polish no.2 (on index finger): China glaze re-fresh mint 867

Mint blue polish no.3 (on middle finger): Essie Absolutely shore 758

Sheer white polish: Essie marshmallow 63

Silver white textured polish: OPI liquid sand solitaire NL M49

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(I am not paid and all the materials I used in this post were bought using my own money.)