With Halloween just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about how to transform those perfect, glossy manicures into some bold and frightful nails. From pumpkins, monsters, spiders, and everything in-between, there are endless ideas and inspirations to transform your nails into the ultimate Halloween.
Whether you’re a newbie or nail art expert, here are 20 Halloween nail design ideas that are bound to catch your eye and make a statement this Halloween season!
Midnight Manicure
It’s been said time and time again that you can’t go wrong with timeless, classic black. And, this nail look perfectly captures that sentiment. These all-black stunning nails with shimmery, gold detailing perfectly capture the nighttime Halloween essence. If you’re not a fan of the black and gold combination, you can swap out the black for a traditional orange base, and do the detailing in black to give it a more blatant, Halloween look.
Wandering Ghosts
Maybe you’re not a nail expert yet, but you’re looking to dabble into some Halloween nail art this year. These simple and boo-tiful ghost nails are a great idea for anyone looking to add some Halloween flare this coming season, with minimal effort. Three nail polish colours and some patience is all you need to pull off this ghostly look on your fingertips!
Spooky Graveyard
Graveyard nails are a very unique and bold choice if you’re looking for something different this Halloween. Forget ghosts, spiders, and monsters, when you can pull off this spine-chilling look with three colours and some delicate handwork.
Creepy Clown
This nail design is the perfect combination of Halloween meets spooky circus. With spider webs, uneasy clown faces, and traditional clown checkered patterns, these nails are a fantastic idea to elevate your Halloween. If you’re looking for a more old-style, Halloween feel, then consider substituting the pink shades for orange to give your nails a bolder Halloween look.
Everything and Anything, Halloween!
If you think about Halloween time, many things probably come to your mind. So, why not incorporate all these different, iconic Halloween staples into one design? This design perfectly combines aliens, spiders, skeletons, stitched-up monsters, and more to give a spooky and stunning nail set.
All Eyes on You
You don’t need blacks, reds, and blood and gore to pull off the perfect, eerie Halloween look. This orange and white nail design is a lighter, yet just as sinister look for the Halloween season. With small spiders, some Halloween shimmer, and haunting evil eyes, this nail design is bound to leave a frightening impact on anyone who meets these eyes.
Mystical Halloween Night
Haunted houses, spooky trees, and black cats! What more could a Halloween nail design need? This beautiful, indigo nail look is an excellent option for anyone looking to level up their Halloween nails this season. While the stunning base colour is enough to steal the show, the drawn-on figurines add a layer of creepy, making them a must-try this October.
Sew It Up!
Another simple Halloween nail idea is these simple yet creepy stitched-up nail tips. Using only three nail polish shades, you cane pull off these effortlessly terrifying nails with no hassle. Feel free to swap out the base colours for any you prefer, such as two shades of green, if you’re looking to capture a more Frankenstein-inspired nail design, for example.
Eye Spy
Looking for a nail art idea that will get all eyes on your spooktacular hands? Well, this simple and unique nail design is bound to do the trick. With a dark and bold base, these side-eyeing, lurking figures in the shadows are bound to steal the show this Halloween season.
Skeleton Fingers
These skeleton hands nail design is a classic and timeless idea for every Halloween season. With just some black and white nail polish and endless patience to freehand the skeleton fingers, this nail design can become the perfect addition to your Halloween vibe this year.
Beetlejuice Inspired Nails
With the remake of this classic film just making its comeback, why not try out some Beetlejuice-inspired nails for Halloween? This nail design is hypnotizingly spooky and will easily capture all eyes with its colours and bold patterns.
Webbed Nails
This next nail design involves more than a few nail polish colours and detailed precision. With a spooky twist on the classic French tip nails, this nail art leaves your fingertips bursting with a fresh blood-red colour, branching out of your webbed fingers. This nail design is the perfect fit for someone looking to get some intricate Halloween nail art without the hassle of detailed handwork, as this spooktacular look is achieved with nail polish, a nail brush, and a nail stamp to help you get those perfect spider webs.
Burst of Blood
These blood-covered, eerie nails are a bold and unique choice for this Halloween season. This look is a great idea for anyone looking to experiment with some nail art designs that are not necessarily tidy and picture-perfect and instead want to emulate that gory and spine-chilling Halloween feel on their fingers.
Pennywise Nails
Anyone with a fear of clowns should steer clear of this next nail design. These creepy IT-themed nails, are frightful, bold, and perfectly capture the essence of this iconic, Halloween film. By having nails that are both simply black and red and some that are more elaborate with actual pictures, this nail design is a terrific example of how to pull off nail art inspired by a specific movie, without overwhelming the look.
Black and Pink Spooks
You wouldn’t think pink nails could be incorporated into a spooky, Halloween look, but this nail design does it all! With the perfect contrast of light, dainty, pink nails, and dark, dusky, black nails, this design seamlessly blends two distinct colour palettes into one, stunning result. The tiny, yet dazzling silhouettes of Halloween figures are the perfect, subtle addition to add a creepy factor to this look, without overshadowing the beautiful pink and black base.
Halloween-pocalypse
If you’re looking for nails that include all your Halloween favourites in one look, search no further! This nail design has got you covered from Frankenstein, spiders, ghosts, and much more. Have fun with this idea, and feel free to include your own Halloween favourites to personalize the look!
Black Seance Silhouettes
These sparkly, black silhouettes perfectly capture the mysterious and spooky Halloween vibe. With this nail look, your hands will look like something the mysterious fortune teller free-handed for you at your local, Halloween carnival. How spooky!
Bat to the Bone Nails
Dark, bold, and captivating are just a few words that come to mind to describe this next nail look. These swarming black bats, with the chilling all-black tips are so effortlessly haunting. With two nail polish colours, and a stamping plate to give you the perfect army of bats, this nail look is one to try this season!
Mummy-tastic Nails
Wrapped-up mummy nails are another Halloween nail design idea that is bound to be a hit! These nails look easier to pull off than some more intricate and detailed designs. Still, they are just as spooky and immaculate with the final result. Black, white, and some haunting green eyes poking out are all you’ll need to nail this Halloween look!
Creeping Pumpkins
Spooky pumpkin fingertip nails are a fresh and unique twist for Halloween nail designs. Though this type of nail art is more commonly done with the ghosts on the fingertips, these evil pumpkins add a pop of colour with their bright orange and black colours. After all, what screams Halloween more than some creepy jack-o-lanterns?
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