Halloween Pumpkin Nail Art and Tutorial

Hello dear readers!

Today I decided to do a freehand nail art featuring a Halloween design. (Last year's Halloween nail art here)

This time, Halloween pumpkins were my inspiration.

Below you will see step by step pictures and instructions on how I did this nail art.

First, I painted my nails using a dark purple nail polish. I used Orly's Fowl Play. 

Using an orange color nail polish (or acrylic paint), paint the tip of your nails making semicircular edges at the top of the design. The nail polish I used is Ulta - Sun of a Gun.

With a metallic or glittery nail polish paint the outline of the pumpkin. I used Kleancolor - Metallic Orange.

Now, paint the faces of the pumkins. The facial expressions are up to you ;)

Paint stems and leaves on the top of the pumpkins. I used Kleancolor -  Metallic Green.

This step is optional: you can add any glitter, dots, etc... I painted some candies on the accent nails using to finish the design. I added wrapped candies on the thumb and candy corns on my ring finger nail.

Finished!

I hope you liked this nail art. You still have time do it yourself for this Halloween ;)

♥ ♥Thank you for reading♥ ♥

Lisa Frank Inspired Manicure

 I was playing around with some colors and thought it kind of reminded me of Lisa Frank stuff that I used to have in grade school.  So I show the different steps above in the order you do them for this manicure. Basically pick a few colors that you like together and keep layering them on top of each other, starting each one out a little further up the nail.  It doesn't have to be perfect and even, and really you don't want it to because it adds to the look.  After all of your colors are layered and completely dry, put a coat of a shatter nail polish over top.  If you don't have a shatter polish, you can use a little nail art brush to make little lines with nail polish that have the same effect.  The shatter polish is just a much quicker way to get that look!  The products used are listed below:

China Glaze Kinetic Candy (blue)
China Glaze Lemon Fizz (yellow)
Essie Infatuation (pink)
Sinful Colors Let's Talk (purple)
China Glaze Lightning Bolt (white shatter)

This look also looks great with neon colors underneath and black shatter over the top!  You can also layer the colors a little less "symmetrical" than I did and it can create a sort of tie dyed look.  Thanks for viewing!

Spring/Summer Manicure

So since the weather has been decent for a few days, I was starting to get into that spring/summer mood.  I decided I needed a brighter manicure.  I went searching through my stash to find a good pink since hot pink is always a good go to color.  I decided on Revlon's Pink Freeze.  It is a hot pink frost, which I typically stay away from, but this particular one is a good formula.  I then decided to throw on some Claire's nail polish in Candy Shop on top of Pink Freeze for the ring finger and thumb.  This polish is an exact dupe for the heavily sought after (and expensive) Deborah Lippman Candy Shop nail polish.  I was gonna leave it at that, but decided to play around with my nail stamping kit.  I used Pure Ice polish in Silver Mercedes to stamp with, and threw some little white dots onto the middle of the flowers.  I think the silver on top of a metallic pink was a little hard to see, so I'm gonna try the silver over a darker color next.  But the manicure is definitely bright and happy like I wanted!

Also on a side note, my cuticles are a hot mess, since I have insanely dry skin always....and if anyone has a recommendation for a great cuticle cream or oil I'd love to know.  I'd like to find one that really works and could use some ideas!

Enjoy and have a bright happy day :-)