French tip water marble Halloween nails

Title says it all :) to do this manicure you'll need tape, white polish, multiple colors of polish, water, toothpick (or orange stick). I used the tape to cover half of my nail. I painted them all white. Then proceeded to do the water marbling to each of my nails in the colors of my choice (if you don't know how to water marble my blog has a tutorial here ) Once you have finished the water marbling I waited for the polish to dry, then slowly pulled off the tape using tweezers. Then on the empty have of you nail you can paint different Halloween characters (or leave it blank if you prefer)

Witchy Woman

Green & Purple water marbling and witches hats perfect for halloween :) With Danielle's hands as my model. I love how these turned out and the colors look great together IMO. 

Nightfall

Nightfall over a 'castle' as my daughter called it lol :)  On the thumb I painted it solid black. Over the other nails I painted them a shimmery yellow gold. After that dried I painted a yellow circle on my thumb for a moon. Using black nail polish (black acrilic paint works as well) I made a few quick brush strokes with my small brush to creat a grass effect on all the other nails. I created some creepy trees, a 'castle', bats, and some jack-o-lanterns to finish up my nail art.

Orange and black water marble tutorial

This is my first tutorial, so I hope it's easy to understand and follow. YouTube Tutorial video.

You'll need black and orange polish. I used Pure Ice 'Drive me crazy' (orange) & Sinful Colors 'black on black'. Vaseline, a toothpick, and a small glass of water. Warm water or room temp works best, cold will dry your polish quickly. 

Start by applying your clear base coat, and the lighter color (or the color you wish to stand out more). Make sure your polishes are open and ready to go, when you start dropping you polish into the water you'll want to go fairly quickly so your polish won't dry before you're ready.

I like to start by rubbing Vaseline around my finger (careful to keep it off your nails) this will help clean the polish up off your skin once you're finished. Some people like to use tape, but I could never get it to work for me.

Then with orange add drops into the water allowing them time to expand in the glass, do this until they no longer expand or you have the desired amount of rings.

Anchor your polish to the glass (This means using the toothpick and pulling the polish from the middle to the side of the glass. A lot of people skip this step and the polish ends up moving in a way they didn't want it to. (This is image 4))

Next create the design you would like, I personally just like playing around with it. And this polish works really well together, it stays wet for a long time. 

Once you have your design dip your finger in then use your toothpick to remove the excess. 

Remove your finger (picture 7, you see how messy it is) use a q-tip to clean up the mess (if you used Vaseline it should clean right up.

And your all done :)

Night fall on a haunted house

I really like how these turned out. Darkness falls on these trees and a distorted house with the moon in the background. 

Lone raven, hungry kitty

(I seriously love how my practice design for my raven turned out)

There on a tree under the glow of the full moon sat a lone raven. Along came a hungry kitty and the lone raven didn't stand a chance. Soon all that was left of the lone raven were a few bloody feathers and a kitty with a full tummy.

Pumpkins, and ghosts, and skulls! Oh my!

My daughter had a good day at school today so she got a treat :) She loves her newest nail art and can't wait until Halloween is here. I really like the skulls :) (she needed her touch of pink so I added a cute stylish bow to them.)

Fairy

Sooo my fairy is not very good, yet. I kind of like her though :) Can't wait until my nails get longer and my pictures can get a little bigger :) But she turned out well for just being off the top of my head, imo :) 

Spider webs

So I am totally arachnidphobic, but you can't do Halloween stye nail art without throwing in a few spiders and their webs lol 

Autumn trees

I love Autumn it means the best holiday (Halloween) is just around the corner! Time to pull out all my fall colors and figure out some nice nial designs to match the season. I love this version of my Autumn trees (more to come soon) I did them the sam way as my cherry blossoms only with fall colors :) (thanks to my friend Danielle for being my hand model in this pic)

Dark newspaper nails

I really like the newspaper effect for nail art, but I can never leave things simple lol If you look closely you can see spots where it worked really good. This is definitely something I'll be trying again (hopefully with a much better result) I like posting pictures of my art even before it's perfected so that everyone can see that you don't have to be perfect to enjoy nail art. Grab some polish and get painting :) Coming up soon I'll start posting tutorials as requested by a friend. Happy painting :)

Flowers & butterflies.

I love these flowers. Not a fan of how my butterfly turned out lol but that's the great thing about polish, you can just remove it and try again. It takes time to make things perfect so take it slow when you can and practice as often as you can. And even if it's not perfect it doesn't mean it's not beautiful :) 

Water marbling

Pretty and creative, this messy nail art is fun and interesting to look at. :) My least favorite part is the clean up. It also takes up quite a bit of time and requires some patients. I definitely like the end result though :)

Elegant glitter manicure

What girl doesn't love glitter? I know for myself I am definitely a fan. I try to use glitter in every one of my designs. Like this one. I love the crazy complicated 'in your face' designs, but sometimes it's better to keep it simple having just one nail stand out :) This works for many occations without being overwhelming :)

Side swipe french manicure with fimo flowers

 

 

Simple side swipe french manicure, with dots, and fimo flowers. I like this design because it's pretty and pretty easy to do :)

Blue butterfly and french tip

This isn't the most fantastic design in the world, but i personally love it as this was painted with my left hand. But on the bright side practice makes perfect :)

Lepard print French tip

Created for a friend who loves animal prints. I used gold polish for the tips and background on the ring finger. I placed random sized dots in a brown color up one side (or the whole thing on the ring finger). Outlined those with black paint and added a few small black dots. And finally sealed in the design with a fast drying top coat.

Ladybugs

Ladybug nails. These nails are super cute and easy to create. To prove how easy this is my right hand (I happen to be right handed) You need a small dotting tool (I used a tooth pick), big and med dotting tools, a striping brush red polish, white acrilic paint, black acrilic paint, & your favorite base and top coats. I thought it would look really cute to put mini ladybugs on my ring fingers :)

A bit about me

I'm a big ball of quirky fun :) I am goofy, silly, creative, & random. I love my family & I love to cook them delicious food. I love making them beautiful things. I am also passionate about my nail art :) I change my nails every few day :) I have a beautiful daughter, her name is Arabella. My boyfriend has an adorable son, his name is Bentley :) I love both of them very much. I was born and raised in California, but moved away as soon as I turned 18. I currently live in the beautiful state of Maine.