Halloween isn’t a holiday–it’s a season. Because no way I’m going to contain my Halloween excitement to one day or even one week of Halloween nail art.
With the tools and different types of nail art mediums ranging from intricate stamping to fast and simple stickers, you can create nail art so professional-looking that folks will mistake your at-home manicures for a salon manicure.
For a manicure truly in the holiday spirit, these creepy skeleton hand charms make a great addition to your next Halloween manicure.
They’re a little tall so you may only want to use them as an accent and not on your entire hand. There are three sparkling white rhinestones on the wrist of each hand to give you that glint as you turn your hand in the light.
For non-gel nails, you can use a high-quality craft glue and for gel nails, you’ll want a UV light resin. In this set, you get 10 pieces, enough for one on each finger.
Whats Up Nails makes water decal wraps with some of the most fun, detailed, and kid-friendly designs like mushrooms wearing witch hats, bubbling cauldrons, and cute cartoon spiders.
There are no bloody eyeballs or knives in these which is nice for kids, parents, and any folks who want to get spooky but not scary.
Water decals are only a little more complicated than slapping a sticker on your fingernails and being done with it. With water decals, you cut out your image and soak it in water for a moment which loosens the decal, allowing you to slide the image off the backing and onto your fingernail.
This Born Pretty Stamping Plate includes everything you need for Halloween nail art except for the polish and your nails. The kit comes with three Halloween stamping plates, a clear jelly stamper, and a plastic scraper.
Two of the plates have skull theme with everything from kawaii skulls, sugar skulls, to a daisy with a skull in it. The third circular plate has more traditional Halloween nail art images like spider webs, jack-o’-lanterns, and ghosts.
I have several Born Pretty stamper and several of their plates (bought with my own money) and I’ve always been very pleased with them.
This stencil variety pack comes with spooky trees, jack-o’-lantern stacks, crosses, and Frankenstein’s monster for a total of 75 stencils.
These durable vinyls sheets allow you to use both the stencil portion as an outline of the shape as well as the center design bit you removed as a sticker that you can place on your nail and paint over for the opposite effect–this doubles the amount of use you can get out of your stencils.
These stencils from Whats Up Nails are made in the USA and are a good, thick vinyl so they’re easy to work with.
If that all seems a little too complicated for the time you want to put into Halloween nail art, check out self-adhesive nail stickers.
This pack contains over 1,200 Halloween nail stickers so you’ll have plenty for this year and next year as well. They cover a variety of Halloweeny themes with spiders, cute pumpkins, scary pumpkins, ghosts, vampires, bats, blood, and even cute teddy bears in costume.
Plus, they are quick and easy to put on. Tweezers are the best way to go for small stickers like this. All you need to do is select your sticker, place it on your dry polish, and then cover with a top coat to make the stickers last longer.
I recently got a forest plate from Wistonia and while I was surprised at how small the plates are, I was extremely impressed with the quality of the images I could get from this brand.
The three plates in this set have a good mix of individual images and patterns as well as of scary designs and cuter ones. I love all the different jack-o’-lantern faces to choose from and the candy corn patterns.
This nail charm set comes with 6 different metal charms that you can play with for your next Halloween manicure.
You get a gold-toned pumpkin, gold-toned spiderweb with rhinestone, gold-toned skeleton hand with three rhinestones, gold-toned skull with a rhinestone bow, a white and black screaming face, and an orange and black jack-o’-lantern.
This assortment lets you try out a few different looks and have something new and interesting on each finger.
I’ve you’re full up on pumpkins, this set of two gothic Halloween plates from Whats Up Nails is perfect for the Halloween season.
It has some less typical image than what you’re used to seeing in classic Halloween designs like gothic lace, leafless trees, crows on barbed wire, and brains. The plates also have a few more lighthearted images of candy and witch’s feet.
I’ve had great success with Whats Up brand plates. The etching is clean and well done so your images will stamp crisp and clear.
This is about as easy as Halloween nail art gets: stickers.
All you need to do is peel the decal off and place it on your nail and you’re done. Tweezers will be your best friend here as the tiny stickers can tear if you’re too rough.
To make sure your nail stickers last, wipe down your nails with rubbing alcohol before applying them to give the decals a nice, dry surface to stick to. Once your stickers are on, cover your nails with a good top coat to seal them in place.
The set of four sheets of nail stickers are covered in different style Halloween designs from cute ghosts to bloody eyeballs so everyone can find something on here they’ll like. And there are just so many! I didn’t attempt to count all the sheets but going from one I’d estimate there are close to 400 stickers on here.
