Halloween is not officialholiday in Russia, however, is celebrated here every year. Mostly this night is in demand among young people for entertainment, demonstrating unusual horrific images associated with all sorts of characters from horror films, blood and pitch darkness. Most fashionistas have the questions: “Which image to choose?”, “What to wear and how to make every detail, even the smallest, not get out of the big picture?” Deciding on the choice of costume and makeup is not all that is needed for complete the look.
Halloween manicure is part ofimage, though not the most important, but necessary for a successful combination with the chosen outfit, hair and makeup. There are many ways to decorate nails on such a very unusual holiday. In this case, it is not necessary to spend money, running around all sorts of expensive salons. Everything can be done at home, with their own hands.
What you need for a manicure and how to prepare your nails?
Create an interesting and unique Halloween manicure at home will not be difficult.
Before proceeding with the application of varnish,need to prepare for this nails. You need to erase the old manicure, thoroughly wash your hands in soapy water. This will help remove grease from the nails. Or you can use any degreaser. When marigolds are already prepared for painting, apply a base coat. This stage is needed in order to manicure better and longer kept on the nails. Now it is worth thinking about which picture fits the chosen image for a holiday. The color scheme should be combined with a suit and makeup. Halloween manicure is mainly created usually with the help of nail polishes of different colors. A needle or a regular toothpick will help to draw, and rhinestones or sequins are needed to give shimmer to the nails. Sometimes for such a manicure can be useful markers (special) or gel pen. After completing all the manipulations, cover the top with a nail polish fixer, which will serve as an additional guarantee of the durability of the manicure and prevent premature cracking and peeling of the varnish.
Lacquering Tips
As is already clear from the above, creating a manicure for Halloween with your own hands is not difficult, but it is worth remembering a few important rules:
- the coating should always be applied on a flat surface, so that there are no children or animals nearby;
- in case of an accidental mistake or blot, do not rush to fix it: it is best to completely wipe off the nail polish and try again, it will be cleaner;
- the application of any coating should start from the base, because it will allow the varnish to be distributed over the nail as evenly as possible.
Before you start applying a manicure, you needdecide on the choice of drawing. It depends on the costume and makeup. Immediately it is necessary to find out in what color scheme a manicure will be performed on Halloween, and prepare nail polishes of certain colors and shades. Naturally, for such a case cute flowers and butterflies will not work. Therefore, light, pink and vanilla colors can be removed.
Halloween Manicure Ideas
Cat manicure is a great solution.One of the options presented in the photo above. To create it you need to give the nails a pointed shape, like cat's claws. But you can stay on the square. First you need to apply a base coat and wait for it to dry. In choosing the shade is guided by the color scheme of the suit. If it is, for example, black, then you can choose any varnish. Suitable bright red or orange, like the eyes of a cat. It is necessary to put it on the nails and wait for drying again. The next step is to paint with black lacquer. It is necessary to make a semicircle on the tip of the nail, then add triangular ears, depict the cat's eyes and mustaches with white and green varnish. After you can leave to dry. Optionally, you can draw the cat's nose and mouth, then you need to cover all the fixative.
Skull idea
Such a Halloween manicure for short nailsfit just awesome. If the choice fell on the costume of a witch or death with a scythe, then the skull on the nails - this is what you need. To create this manicure, you will need neon and black nail polishes. So, the first stage is, as always, the application of the base layer. Then you should use neon varnish. You need to let it dry. Now it's time to start drawing skulls. This should be done with black lacquer. So, making sure that the previous layer is properly dried out, starting from the base of the nail, draw an oval. This is the shape of the skull. Then white lacquer should be added to the oval of the eyes, teeth and cavities of the nose. Next, you need to wait for the patterns to dry and apply a nail polish fixer on top.
Bloody Nurse Manicure
Since this image is the most common, brightand captivating, most fashionistas use it on Halloween. Often they don’t think about manicure, but you still want to add a costume. Therefore, for this image there is a corresponding idea. It does not assume special time costs. The first stage is the application of the base layer, as usual. Then - white lacquer. Next, wait for complete drying. After that, red lacquer paint blood stains from the base of the nail and careless droplets. No need to strive for synchronicity on all nails. On the contrary, the drawings should be similar to natural blood drops.
Manicure peak lady
Also considered a very popular image of the peakLadies for the holiday of Halloween. You can supplement it with an appropriate manicure, you will need black, white and red nail polishes. At the first stage, everything is the same - we cover the nails with a base. Then apply a coat of basic varnish, which is white. Next, wait for drying. Then with the help of black and red lacquers you need to draw the corresponding card suits. You can arrange several symbols on one nail or choose one specific one. Also a good option would be the alternation of such patterns. The final coating will fixer. This manicure will make a splash at a Halloween festive party. It looks very eccentric and original.
