Try your hand at these Halloween-themed nail art ideas from a few of our favorite beauty bloggers. Each of these designs—from colorful patterns to cute eyeballs to spooky skulls—are straightforward enough to do at home, yet still impressive. (Trust us, you’ll want show off them off on your Instagram page.) If you’re missing some of the tools used by the bloggers, check out our tips for creating similar results using common household items such as hair pins and stockings.
1. Halloween Water Marble Nails
This beautiful design by spektorsnails.com was created with water marbling, but you could achieve a similar look with our handy floss trick.
• Polish picks: China Glaze in “Papaya Punch” ($4.74 on amazon.com)
2. Halloween Stripes
This super-simple but festive design is from thenailasaurus.com.
• Polish picks: Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in “Sun Kissed” ($2.26 at drugstore.com)
3. Halloween Eyeballs
This step-by-step video tutorial from Trendy Polish’s YouTube channel will give you spooky eyeball nails in no time.
• Polish picks: Not specified in the tutorial, but we like Wet ‘N Wild in “Red a Good Book” ($2.29 at drugstore.com) and Milani in “Quick Teal” ($4.49 at drugstore.com)
4. Action Skulls Halloween Nails
Although this design by crashingred.com looks elaborate, all you need is black and white polish, sticky tape and a pair of scissors to recreate the look.
• Polish picks: Revlon Nail Enamel in “Knockout” ($4.99 on ulta.com)
5. Cat Eyes Halloween Nails
In this tutorial, kaylashevonne.com uses a dotting tool to create the cat eyes, but if you don’t have one at home, you could get the look by using a hairpin.
• Polish picks: OPI in “Who the Shrek Are You?” ($6.99 at amazon.com) and We ‘N Wild in Black Creme ($0.99 at drugstore.com)
6. Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Nails
It doesn’t get more Halloween-y than pumpkin nails! There are plenty of variations on this design out there, but we love this tutorial by Kristina McReynolds on YouTube.
• Polish picks: China Glaze Nail Polish in “Thataway” ($7.50 at ulta.com)
7. Spiderweb Nails, Candy Corn Nails, Frankenstein Nails, Skull Nails and All-Seeing Eye Nails
Get five different nail art tutorials in this video from PopSugar’s YouTube channel (my personal favorite is the ombre candy corn design).
• Polish picks: Not specified in the video, but we like Essie in “Marshmallow” ($8.50 at beauty.com) for the various white accents and Essie in “Fear or Desire” ($8.50 beauty.com) for the orange candy corn.
8. Candy Corn With a Twist Nails
Classic candy corn stripes get a fun update with one polka dot “party nail” in this tutorial from thepolishaholic.com.
• Polish picks: OPI in “I Just Can’t Cope-Acabana” for the yellow accents ($7.50 at sleekhair.com)
9. Blood-Tipped and Black-and-Gold Nails
We tried our hand at blood-tipped (index finger) and black-and-gold (middle finger and pinky) nails. Click here for the scary-easy tutorials.
• Polish picks: Milani Jewel FX Nail Lacquer in Gold ($4.49 at drugstore.com)
10. Mummy Nail Stickers
Okay, this is technically not nail art, but these decal stickers are too fun to pass up and will give you an insta-manicure for the price of a bottle of polish.
• Buy them: Mummy Nail Stickers by stickitvinyl ($3.99 at etsy.com)
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