Halloween Nail Art Challenge – Day 2: Pumpkin Faces

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Challenge Your Nail Art, Color Club, distressed nails, freehand, Halloween, halloween nail art, Nail Art, Nail Art Ideas Linkup, Sally Hansen, Sephora by OPI, Wet n Wild

Check the sidebar for information on both challenges.

I combined the NAIL prompt with the Halloween challenge today. When I googled pumpkin faces most of them were traditional orange background, line marks and funny or scary faces.

I love pumpkins but I always got bored of the bright oranges ones. They were so monotone! My favorite were the tiny abnormally colored ones. They were a lot more rare and just looked cooler!

Distressed nails are very RA-friendly and work perfectly with these pumpkin’s look. I am very excited I can inject a little more “nail art” into today’s manicure to make up for yesterday!

Anyways, I hope you like my “jack-o-lantern” nails. These were really fun to do!

I started with 1 coat of Milani Spotlight White as my base.

I “distressed” with Color Club Almost Famous, Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Short Cir-cute, and Sephora by OPI Metro Chic.

I detailed with Wet n Wild Black Creme and Sephora by OPI 212-Sephora for that candlelight flicker inside 🙂

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

Check out the other pumpkin faces below!

8 thoughts on “Halloween Nail Art Challenge – Day 2: Pumpkin Faces”

mishka824m said:

10/30/2014 at 2:36 am

Oh, man, the distressed look on this and the simple pumpkin face creates such a creepy effect! It’s like a scarecrow pumpkin hybrid thing and I love it…

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- Monica@theRiteofAging said:
  
  10/31/2014 at 9:40 pm
  
  Thank you!! Ahhh! I’m totally seeing the scarecrow thing now…yikes! Hahah, scarecrows really freak me out!
  
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Ali @ FixinToFaff said:

10/30/2014 at 9:21 am

You’re absolutely right – the distressed background makes a perfect pumpkin base! The colors look great together and I love that you made the accent nail into the face.

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- Monica@theRiteofAging said:
  
  10/31/2014 at 9:40 pm
  
  Thank you, Ali!! Admittedly, I really need to work on my freehand work…have you had success cutting your detail brushes to smaller sizes?
  
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veaves said:

10/30/2014 at 10:11 am

I love love love the distressed look! And also that you went a total non traditional way with your colors! Well done!

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- Monica@theRiteofAging said:
  
  10/31/2014 at 9:39 pm
  
  Thank you!! This is one of my favorite techniques because it abstract and quick…I was looking for the orange, green pumpkins but I realized I was looking at zucchini! 🙂
  
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Jessica W. said:

10/30/2014 at 10:37 am

Oooh, I like that you went with a non-traditional color scheme! Great job! 😀

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- Monica@theRiteofAging said:
  
  10/31/2014 at 9:38 pm
  
  Thank you!!! I am glad I could do the distressed look with them 🙂
  
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