'Jack Skellington' Nightmare Before Christmas ~ Halloween Nails

A Nightmare Before Christmas 'Jack Skellington' Nails for Halloween!!

 What I Used:

Sally Hansen Double Duty Base & Top Coat
Opi Black Onyx
Milani White Canvas
Sally Hansen Diamond Glass Slipper
Fine Nail Art Brush
Dotting tool

After applying your base coat, paint all of your nails black.

Using a dotting tool, paint a white circle on your thumb and ring finger nails.

Using a fine nail art brush, paint two, black, upside-down tear drops for the eyes.
You can make him look happy or mean. >:)

Paint two small, black lines under the eyes for the nose.

Using a super thin nail art brush or a toothpick, paint on a thin, black smile.
It should be a very wide smile...from ear to ear. The thinner, the better!

Again, as thin as you can possibly make it, paint lines across the smile all the was across using black paint.

The spider web is pretty hard. You need a very thin nail art brush and some white polish. Paint a small white dot in the center of your finger where you want the web to begin.
Next, paint 5 straight lines coming out from the white dot...all the way out  to the edge of your nail.
Last, paint curved lines connecting the 5 lines to give it to the web look.

Finally, paint the sparkly polish over all of your nails, apply your top coat to protect your painting...
...and you're done! 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! >:)

Galaxy / Universe Nails

All long time ago...

...in a galaxy far, far away...

What I Used:


Sally Hansen: Double Duty Base & Top Coat
Opi: Black Onyx
Sally Hansen: Hard to Get (white),
Sally Hansen: Glass Slipper (clear glitter)
China Glaze: Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini, Flip Flip Fantasy (pink), Electric Beat (blue)
Tiny pieces of Sponge
Dotting tools

After applying your base coat, paint all of your nails black.

Using small cut up pieces of sponge that you can find around the house, dip it in the white paint and carefully...

....dab patterns on to your nails like the above picture.  Each should be different than the other. It may help to google 'universe' and look at a few pictures under google images. 

Next, sponge on some yellow on top of the white.

Then add a little bit of the light pink on top of the yellow and white. You don't want to cover all of any color. Just subtly add more and more color to your galaxies.

Next, sponge on dark blue to the outsides of your galaxies to give it the effect that it is disappearing into the blackness of space. It will also give your galaxies more definition.

Using a dotting tool, add small and smaller white dots to the sides of your galaxies and randomly all of your nails. These will represent the stars. It looks better to have the tiniest of dots. The smaller, the better.

Last, paint on a coat of sparkly glitter polish, add a top coat to protect your masterpiece, and you're done! It's like having heaven on earth. :) 

FSU Nails ~ GO NOLES!

TO  MY ALMA MATER, 

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY. 

THE BEST SCHOOL IN 

THE WORLD! :) GO NOLES!

What I Used: 

Sally Hansen: Wine Not (Garnet)

Pure Ice: Excuse Me (Gold)

Milani: White Canvas

Sally Hansen: Double Duty Base & Top Coat

Two gold stones

Fine nail art brush

After applying your base coat, paint your index, pointer and pink-y fingers gold
and paint your thumb and ring finger garnet.

I painted this more simple "FSU" on one of my thumbs using white polish and a fine nail art brush...

I painted my other thumb with this FSU insignia...also using white polish and a fine nail art brush. This was much harder. I knew I wouldn't be able to do this with my right hand, so I painted the easier 'FSU' on my other thumb. It helps to have a picture of it in front of you while you are painting. Also, acrylic paint may be easier to work with than polish.

On your ring finger, using white paint and a fine nail art brush, paint a triangle in the corner of your nail and fill it in. Next, paint a long line from the middle of the triangle, outward. Paint two very small lines on each side of the stem of the Seminole arrow.

Paint a french-like manicure on the three gold nails using garnet polish.

Paint thin white lines between the gold and garnet french. Add a gold stone to your arrow nail. Apply a double top coat and you're done! You're now a Super Seminoles Fan!

F-L-O-R-I-D-A
S-T-A-T-E

FLORIDA STATE!
FLORIDA STATE!
FLORIDA STATE!

WHOOO!

2012 Olympics - Team USA Nails

What I Used:

Sally Hansen: White Canvas
Sally Hansen: Base and Top Coat
Red, Green, Blue, Black & Yellow Acrylics
Dotting tools
Fine nail art brush

After applying your base coat, paint all of your nails white.

Using a dotting tool, paint three circles towards the top of your nail (leaving room for the the other two circles and the '2012'). The left one should be light blue, the middle is black and the right circle is red.

Now paint a yellow circle and green circle. They should all be connected.

You can use a dotting tool or a paint brush to paint the '2012' in black. Don't shake! ;)

Start painting half circles on your index, middle and pinky fingers. Use whichever combination of colors that are in the Olympic symbol - green, red, blue, yellow and black.

Overlap the half circles like above.

More circles in different colors...

Your half circles will look like this...

Now for the flag. Paint a blue rectangle in the corner of your nail on your ring finger.

Using a fine nail art brush, paint red stripes.

Add white dots on to the blue with a dotting tool...apply a top coat...and you're done!
GO TEAM USA!!

Angry Birds Nails

Those Pigs are so smug!

What I Used: 

Red Acrylic Pain
Sally Hansen White - "Hard to Get"
Opi - "Black Onyx"
China Glaze - "Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"
Sally Hansen - Base and Top Coat
Fine Nail Art Brush
Dotting Tool

After applying your base coat, paint your pinky, middle and index fingers with a french manicure.

Next, paint a half-circle using red polish or acrylic paint on your thumb and ring fingers.

Add two red, curved lines on the top of the half-circle. One line should be longer than the other.
Also, paint a smaller white half-circle on top of the red half-circle.
You may need to paint a couple of coats of white to cover the red.
Make sure the red polish is completely dry before painting the white,
or else it'll bleed through and look messy.

Using a dotting tool, add two black dots for the eyes.
They should just barely connect to each other...and they should not touch the white polish.

Again using a dotting tool, add two white dots inside the black dots for the eyes.
You want the black to outline the whites of the eyes.

Using a fine nail art brush, add two lines for the angry eyebrows.

Add two very small dots to the inside corners of the eyes.
You want to connect the small, black dots to the eyebrows.

Last, add a yellow upside-down triangle for the beak of your angry bird...finish it off with a top coat to protect your masterpiece...and you're done! How cool are you now? Go get those smug pigs!