Another journal

I used to do quite a lot of nail art. Like it was a whole THING for me. For various reasons I don’t keep long nails nor paint them any more, but because I did it for so long I’ve quite the library of fun shots or neat ideas for nail art. An app I use shows me photos I’d taken that day from years in the past and I have been seeing some Halloween nail art that were fun as hell, so I thought I’d share!

I’m just using Flickr embeds, but I’ll add a wee bit of commentary. We’re just flipping through an album together here.

First, some moody pentagrams, a fave tbh with the nail shape I did.

This was fun, doing movie poster inspired nails was a fave (see: Jaws).

This turned out pretty, and is a bit more “medical” than “spooky” but: skeletons. The plum base was what makes it work best I think.

This was a re-do because I tried to make it look like the ends of fingerbones but it didn’t read. Listen, cartoon bone is: SO much funnier.

This is more vibes-based but I think empty stage has some good classic theatre horror core to it. Evil circus, etc.

Okay, and you can close this tab now if you want because the next are a little gross. Zombie nails! We will work up from ick to nasty.

Just shittily remove your nail polish, it does make for a good “just clawed my way out” look.

You can also layer colours and partly remove, that makes for a “flesh falling off” chic. This is part of a flickr album with steps, if you are so interested.

Okay, the penultimate zombie nail: painted stitches. Looks actually pretty effective from a distance.

And now: the gnarly. I apparently made a latex appliance to look like a stitched-through nail one year. WTF, my mind. There’s an album if you want more.

That was fun! It is nice to remember all the stuff one has done, I guess that’s why we take pictures.