Halloween Nail Art Ideas

This week I've worked on Halloween manicure ideas to share with you. I created three different nail art designs, a candy corn design, a spider design, and a Halloween pumpkin design.

To create the candy corn Halloween manicure, I first painted my nails with Maybelline's Color Show Polish in Orange Fix and waited for it to dry. I then used tape to segment the nail and applied a white polish from Boots 17 (I had gotten it in a french-manicure set years ago) at the bottom of the nail and Midtown Mimosa, a yellow polish by NYC, at the top of the nail.

Once all of the layers were dry, I removed the tape and was left with a striped candy corn design. I wasn't particularly happy with the way this turned out as the lines weren't perfect. I had to apply multiple layers of polish to get good coverage and the polish ended up smudging when I removed the tape. It would probably have worked better if the tape was less sticky. A fun idea for Halloween but not perfect enough for my liking!

Candy Corn Manicure for Halloween

I next created a Halloween pumpkin design using a Temple Spa polish, Naples, for 4 of my nails and the Maybelline Orange Fix Polish for the accent nail. Temple Spa is a UK company that creates stunning nail polish. I only have 4 polishes from them but they are all gorgeous.

I used a dotting tool to create the pumpkin nail art on one of my nails. I used Black Chrome, a Nubar polish for the pumpkin's face.

I was so pleased with how this turned out. It was pretty simple to do and looks great. I think it would also look good with alternating orange and black nails.

Halloween Nail Art - Pumpkin 

My final design was a nude nail with spider nail art applied on alternating nails. I took a picture of this design with just one spider on the accent nail and another with spiders on alternating nails. Both looked great but the accent nail may work better if you want something more subtle. I used Essie Chinchilly as the base, one of my all time favorite polishes. I love how simple it is and it looks amazing with poker dots or glitter!

Again I used a dotting tool to create these designs, using the larger end for the eyeball and the smaller end for the pupil. I also loved how this design turned out. It was fairly simple to create but looked so pretty on my nails.

Spider Accent Nail for Halloween

Halloween Spiders on alternating Nails

I hope you enjoyed these ideas. I'd love to know what your favorite design was. I'm rocking the Halloween pumpkin design for Halloween week.

Star Nail Art using Konad Stamping Technique

When I started my blog, my goal was to post once a week. I've been pretty bad at sticking to this for a couple of reasons. Firstly I was on vacation in the UK seeing my family and secondly I just started a new job so I've been pretty busy learning!

Whilst I was in the UK I picked up a Konad stamp set. I'd wanted to try nail stamping for a while and was pretty excited to come across the kit in the store. I ended up purchasing plate m3 and a white Konad polish. This weekend I used the stamping set for the first time. I painted my nails with Color Club's Revvolution, a dark grey, almost black holographic polish. I then went crazy stamping stars all over my nails.

I love how this mani turned out! The stamping was tricky at first but once I practiced a few times, the stars turned out really well. I found the stars looked better if I slightly rocked the stamper whilst picking up the star from the Konad plate.

The great thing with using a dark polish for the base was that if a star didn't turn out well, I just painted over that part of the nail and tried again in a few minutes. Patience is key when stamping as sometimes the image won't properly stick. I feel that it's worth it for such a unique effect!