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Monday 29 October 2012

Halloween Nails - Dripping Blood

Afternoon lovelies,

for someone who has a very large collection of nail polish, I'm not a big nail art fan, simply because I'm really naff at it. I follow so many different nail art blogs, but every time I try it just ends up a massive mess! So when I saw this design, I knew I could try it as it didn't matter that it was slightly messy!

You will need:
A white polish - I used OPI Alpine Snow
A red Polish - I used OPI Big Red Apple
Dotting Tool/Kirby Grip
Paper


Step One - Paint your nails with two coats of your white polish or as many as you need until its opaque.


Step two - Using your red, paint just the tips, it doesn't have to be neat or even so get it on there!


Step Three - Load up your paper with quite a few big blobs of the red polish. You need enough so that it forms drops on the end of your dotting tool to make it look like blood drops dripping.
I used a bent kirby grip as I don't have a dotting tool, but this worked really well.


Step four - Create random blobs on the nail and then drag it upwards to join the top nail polish. Its best if the dots are wider then the tail as that way it looks like the blob has dribbled down. You dont have to get this nice and even, as well as making random marks as though it has splattered.


Step five - Let it dry fully, and then seal it in with a clear top coat. I finished it off with a little bit of red glitter after I took this picture.

I got so many compliments from this nail polish, and it lasted really well so I think for an initial dabble in nail art, it was easy - now to think what else to do! 

Have you tried any Halloween nail designs? Is this really naff or not too bad? xx

8 comments:

  1. I think it looks great! It's also brilliant that it's something lots of people can try, great post x x x

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  2. I'm the same with nail art, I have so much nail polish, and would love to be able to do something fancy. This looks pretty easy and really want to try it

    Have a beautiful evening

    xx

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  3. They look great! I was thinking about doing these :)

    Lucy
    http://lucyywrites01.blogspot.com x

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  4. It is really easy - glad you liked it! X

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  5. If you do it, let me know as its so easy!! Xx

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  6. If you do it then let me know, it's so easy!

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