Wordless Wednesday: Quick Halloween Nail Art

Butterfly Wings Nail Art

This is probably my favorite nail art that I've done. I was worried it would be too complicated, but it came out fantastic! 

I have some nail art pens, which made this actually pretty simple, once I had a couple reference images in front of me. When I was looking up some different examples, I just couldn't decide what background color to go with, so I ended up using five different ones! I love the rainbow effect that it made.

Rainbow Nails

Sometimes all you need for really fun nails is a few different colors! I didn't have time to do anything super complicated, so I just picked out a few different fun colors that worked together. I love how it looks like candy - it reminds me of Skittles!

Summery Flower Nails

It has actually been a gorgeous summer here so far, not too hot with plenty of beautiful weather. I've been feeling super into the sunshine lately and I really wanted to try some more nail art, so something summery was an obvious choice! After a little poking around I decided on a daisy-ish design.

UPDATE: Wow, from now on I'm definitely going to start with a clear coat...that lovely green turned out to stain my nails a horrible yellowish color!

July 4th Nail Art

I had a lot of fun last week coming up with these nails! Unfortunately I had some trouble with chipping before we quite got to the 4th, but I was able to repair them all right. I like how it kind of ended up looking like Captain America nail art instead of just 4th of July. It makes me want to do some Avengers-themed nails at some point!

I don't have a full tutorial for this, but I can tell you that I used painter's tape - it turned out to be really easy to cut thin strips to make the stripes. Make them longer than your nail so you have some extra to peel it off later. My biggest problem was, as usual, impatience. You have GOT to wait until the nail polish is completely dry to peel off the tape, or it will take the rest of the polish off with it!

Ombre Nail Art

This was one of my first tries ever at nail art! A lot of the methods for doing an ombre design called for supplies I don't have, so I ended up winging it. I started with a bottom coat of the lighter color (actually a very pale lavender). To get the shading, I mostly just used the brushes to paint the nail polish colors back and forth, adding a little more of one or the other depending on what it looked like. I did try mixing some polish together and painting that on, which helped for the middle section. I like how instead of a smooth gradient I ended up with something a lot more vibrant and visually interesting, but still shows as an ombre effect at a glance.

Color Coordination FTW!

Nothing special to post today, except that the flowers on the bush outside my back door almost EXACTLY match the shade of my new dress! Color serendipity? Absolutely. This clearly meant that I was destined to wear some of these flowers in my hair.

And then, I painted my nails in colors that I usually refer to in my head as "Frozen nails," which pulled in the blue in my jewelry to make a nice contrast.