Frankenstein French nails tutorial

Welcome back to another tutorial on October, so let's get a bit scary with it. And what's more scary than perfecting a French tip? So today I will give you a nail art that will help camouflage your mistakes doing so while being seasonally appropriate:

So we're going to do a French nail but we're doing more things on top to hide any imperfection. It's a crutch, but we're taking it. I used these polishes for this, but you can do so many variations of this:

 I went with my Holo Tacos to get some warm greens and go for this zombie skin:

• Holo Taco's Not Pressed
• Holo Taco's Modest Moss
• Holo Taco's One Coat Black
• Holo Taco's World's First

What I recommend is using opaque polishes. You really don't want to glop it on, that's why I went with these, I trust their opacity for my nails. I'll show you how I did this. It's really easy! I started with building my base shade to opacity. One coat was almost there but I could see in bright light a tiny smidge of unevenness, so two coats it is:

Hear me out, freehand your French nail. Go for it. We're going to add more on top, it's fine if it's not perfect, and you will build some confidence. You can use nail art brushes, I went with the bottle brush because I'm crazy and should not be doing tutorials. I'm going to nail art jail.

You can totally see that my french is way far from perfect. It's kinda not bad, but not at a level I would feel comfortable leaving it on its own. That's fine! One of the best and worst things in life is that nobody looks at your nails as close as you do. If I was doing just the french tip, I'd probably use a nail vinyl or other technique that helps me make it perfect, I'm not a nail tech and I don't use gel either. Okay, here's where the trickery starts to build up: Black line. That's it. Congratulations. Do a line separating both colours. I didn't use a striping brush because my control with them is not great for curved nails, so I picked something a bit inbetween, long bristles, but not that long.

 

Wait to apply a top coat. You want a quick dry one. But really, specially with pigmented colours like black, wait a good chunk and float your top coat. After that, and counting that I was going to use the chrome World's First, that does not require top coat, I decided that the contrast would be striking against matte. So, yes, even if you want them matte, wait, apply a quick dry top coat floated to avoid smearing and then a matte top coat:

 

Up until here, with the colours of your choosing, you can do this design any time of the year. But it's October, so do you want to make this design into Halloween? Add some stitches to this line with silver! That's what I did and it turned out... recognizable!

 

I told you it was simple to understand and I wasn't lying, go there and paint your nails however you can! And if it's not the results you wanted, play around and hide your mistakes! I am wearing as I posted this the same manicure on my hands, and I think it turned out effective, I like it at least! I will see if I regret this when I remove it, because Not Pressed is known as a stainer, it already stained me, and this time I'm wearing two coats of base coat to see if that can help me. If not, oh well, I guess I won't play with jellies in a while!

 

With the flash, the contrast between the shiny silver and everything else is way more pronounced, and I think I like it!

So yeah, not too much to add, I think this is the last scary tutorial, as next Sunday would be November already, and it would be already out of season? But I may do it as a treat. Who knows? Tell me all your thoughts about it and about these nails!