The One With the Halloween Splatter Manicure
9:00:00 AMGood morning polished world! How are you all doing on this fine Saturday? I am planning on laying in bed for 90% of the day ignoring the world. Okay, maybe I won't. It's my father's birthday this weekend so I need to get some stuff done for that. Most importantly, I need to bake a cake. I guess I could lay in bed while the cake bakes....right?
I'm so proud of myself that I'm still painting and posting Halloween manicures. I think that I have more ideas than I do time to post them. We will see what happens. Today's design is a different take on the candy corn gradient I usually do. Every year I do that same white, to orange, to yellow gradient. I admire it but then about a few hours after completing it I kind of hate them.
After searching around, I came across a white, to yellow, to orange gradient which had that candy corn feel, but wasn't your typical candy corn manicure. I painted that on my nail, and enjoyed it much more, but there was something that was missing. I came to the conclusion, it was a splatter.
Let's take a look....
Colors Used:
- OPI - Alpine Snow
- OPI - Exotic Birds Do Not Tweet
- OPI - No Tan Lines
Isn't it cool?? I really love this manicure! I don't think I've ever hated a splatter manicure because each nail looks so different and unique. Some people avoid them because of the mess, but I don't find them to be much messier than doing a gradient.
When doing a gradient, I always put painters tape around my nails. I prefer tape over the liquid latex or peel off base coat because I feel like those require much more clean up. Also, there's that dry time which I don't have time for when it's 10pm and I want to be asleep by 11pm. So after the nail is taped off, I will add the gradient, then right after the gradient is done, while the tape is still around my nail, I'll add the splatter. It baffles me when I watch tutorials that people remove the latex or the glue before finishing the full design. Eh, to each their own.
What do you think? Like this look? Think it's a Halloween-ish manicure?
Until next time, <3.
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