Decorating for Halloween doesn't only apply to your house/apartment!! You can decorate your nails too!! Its a fun way to celebrate and isn't super hard. It does take patience though!
Surprisingly the candy corn nails are a little more difficult but still possible for anyone to do with a little practice. First I painted a stripe of yellow that only covered 1/3 of my nail and used a cotton swab dipped in nail polish remover to straighten out the line. (If its not perfectly straight that's okay, when you put your next stripe on it will cover the edge anyways.) Next you paint the orange stripe and follow the same guidelines,
paint the middle 1/3 section and straighten out the edge line with a q-tip. Now last you paint the white stripe. When painting the stripes I found it easiest to paint across the nail instead of up and down like you normally paint your nails because it produces a straighter line across. I found it was best to not paint all of the nail each color because there was just too much nail polish on the nail and it became too thick and took forever to dry. And it's as simple as that!
Now for the Frankenstein nails....First we start with a green nail polish on the whole nail. I used the bright green because that was what I already had but you could use something that isn't as bright. I would try to stay away from anything too dark though. After this step you can do any of the features of the face next. It doesn't really matter which comes first. As for me, I did the eyes next. First you do the white dots. I do these by cutting off the tip of a toothpick and using it to make the dots. After the white dries, do the black dot to make the pupil. Make sure that the black dot is a little smaller than the white otherwise it wont look too much like an eye. Next I did the mouth. For the mouth I used one of the nail polishes that has the skinny brushes. (I use the brand LA Colors Art Deco. Its only $1 and works pretty much as good as any other brand. You can find this nail polish at the Dollar Tree or if you live in Utah and you've heard of Honks they have a great selection of them there as well.) Alright back to the painting. The mouth is just one line across and then three lines down. It's best if they are all slightly slanted. And lastly for the hair, you paint the lines on each side and then just kind of dab the end of the brush on the top edge for the top hair. If its not perfect and kind of messy that's okay it will still look great! And that's it!
I recommend always putting a top coat on your nails. It helps keep your design on longer and helps prevent chipping! I also recommend doing multiple coats of colors generally because it tends to look a little better and not as see through. This does depend on the nail polish though. Some are thicker than others so just use your best judgement. Well now you know how to do your own festive nails! Good luck and let us know how yours turn out!! Keep following for more ideas for other holidays and just pure fun!
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