Introduction: Halloween Nails
Trick or treat! If you're in need of some quick polishing, Halloween-style, look no further. Listed here are some easy and festive Halloween manicure ideas. Let's get your digits spook-tacular.
Step 1: Bloody
Paint nails with a couple coats of white or clear.
Using a toothpick, draw on your blood at the tips. I couldn't find any toothpicks, but did have some extra birthday candles lying around that actually worked perfectly!
Step 2: Monsters
Paints nails Frankenstein-green
With a fine-tipped black polish pen (or toothpick and a steady hand) draw on the hair around the cuticle. Fill in.
Add X's for eyes and a stitched in looking mouth.
Step 3: Jack-o-lantern
Paint nails orange
Using a toothpick, fine-tipped brush, or candle, draw on black triangles for eyes, and squiggles for mouths. Have fun and mix it up with each finger!
Step 4: Chattering Skulls
This one's the most challenging of the set, but I was able to do it and I'm certainly no expert.
Paint nails black.
On one hand, paint the top of the skulls. Fill in white circles extending to the tips. Once dry, use your fine-tipped brush and paint on the eye and nose sockets. Along the tips of the nails, make tiny dashes as the spaces between the teeth, then draw a black line above to finish out the gumline.
On the other hand, draw a thick white line a bit below the tip of the nail. Then add little white dashes on the tip and you've finished the bottom of the jaw. Depending on the length of your nails, draw 3-4 small dots as the vertebrae. Make small white dashes on both sides as ribs, leaving one dot along the jaw as the "neck"
And you're done!
Step 5: Other Ideas
Some other ideas include candycorn, ghosts, zombies, cobwebs, and anything else spooky!
Have a fun Halloween, and feel free to comment with pictures of how your nails turned out.

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14 Comments
3 years ago on Introduction
that is so very cool, do you have a barbershop quartet routinge yet?
7 years ago
That is really cool and creative I'm going to do that
9 years ago on Introduction
These are the cutest nails ever! o.o I love them! It would take me way too long to do them though ... ^^;;
9 years ago on Introduction
Love this.
10 years ago on Introduction
too QT!
10 years ago on Introduction
That's cool even for guys!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply 10 years ago on Introduction
Not really...
Reply 10 years ago on Introduction
Uh yeah it is it's bad-ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11 years ago on Introduction
hehehe neat! :D
11 years ago on Introduction
My daughter had fun:
11 years ago on Introduction
Ha, these are great! Awesome idea.
11 years ago on Introduction
very cool!
11 years ago on Introduction
Looks awesome! I can't believe Lee didn't go for the candy corn nails.
11 years ago on Introduction
Awesome halloween nails for the weekend!