Halloween Nail Art Tutorial: Skeletons

• Vamp Gel Polish 
• White Detail Pant 
• Long Liner Brush 
• Metal Dotting Tool 
• SuperShine Topcoat

TRANSCRIPT:

Hi everyone. Happy Halloween. It's Jake from Jake Monson beauty, and today I'm going to be showing you how I created the skeleton Halloween look. Just starting off by prepping most of my nails with Vamp gel polish, and I prep just one of the nails with white detail paint. And first I'm going to show you how I created the skeleton bone design. I used my HONA dotting tool and the long liner brush for this one. First, I use my dotting tool, and I make sure that I don't have too much product on there, we can always add more. And I create eight dots. I put four at the top half of the nail and four at the bottom half. You want to place these four dots in a square like shape on both halves of the nail. I'm again going in with my white detail paint on my long liner brush, and I've wiped off all the excess, and I'm just doing three guidelines going vertically down the nail. I've now just added a little bit more product to my long liner brush, and I'm creating four heart shapes. The points of the heart are going towards the guidelines that I've just made. This is when you can start to see me do the bone shape. After I've drew my heart. I'm really dragging the point of the heart down and making the line thicker so it doesn't look so much like a heart anymore. And we start to see the design come to life. Doing the heart shapes first made this design so much easier to do, and it didn't overcomplicate it, but it also looks really cute and effective. And as you can see, here's the finished design, and here's just one way that you can do and here's another way you can use the heart method that I use to create something else. I'm now going to show you how I created this cute little guy. To start off, I take the smaller side of my HONA dotting tool and very little product, and I'm doing five dots going down. And this acts as the skeleton spine. I'm then going in with two tiny little lines that are the neck of the skeleton, with my long liner brush and tiniest little bit of product to create what would be the ribs of the skeleton. I'm again going in with my long liner brush and doing five lines going away from the dots that we created at the start. A tip from me for when doing nail art that saves me so much time is to not overcomplicate anything, only use the tools that you need to and use the least amount of tools when possible. And remember, nothing's perfect. now just going in, putting the arms down the sides and leaving a gap between what I think are the shoulders, again, not very sure at all, and then just using the tiny side of my dotting tool creating two little dots at the top of the arms When placing these down, I just made sure I determined which way I wanted my hand to be, whether I wanted the pinky coming from the right or the left, and vice versa. For this instance, the pinky is coming from the right side of the nail and the thumb is coming from the left side of the nail. Also having too much product on the dotting tool would make the gel polished flood together and hide the gaps that we need in between those dots. As you can see there, I'm creating the fingers with the long liner brush and very little product. And now just going back in with my dotting tool and creating what would be the knuckles of each finger when creating the skeleton, man, just make sure I look at a reference picture throughout, and I'm sure you'll love the end result as much as I do. I'm now going to show you how I created this skull. If we're picking favourites, I'm picking this one. This is the nail that I painted with white detail paint instead of the thump gel polish. However, to paint the skull that I am using Vamp to make sure it's coherent with the other designs. Here, I'm just sketching out the shape of the skull that I want before filling in the outsides of the nail. Another reason that I cure in between steps is as I'm dragging the jawline down from the outsides, I want these lines to stay nice and neat. And sometimes, when you're dragging product away from product that's uncured, we can create thicker lines, and this can stop the design from looking neat, and that's something that we don't want. Now I'm just adding the finishing touch to the mouth area and sketching out where I want my teeth of the skull, and just again, sketching out with the tiniest little bit of product, and going in later with more product to make them lines a bit more pigmented. After I cue with that step to make sure that I don't smudge anything. I'm now going on to create the eyes and the nose, and finalize with a little extra detail. I'm just going in with my dotting tool and creating a guide for the shape of eye that I want before I go in with my long line of brush. And now we play a game of dot to dot as you've just seen with the nose, I put a little bit of extra product on the end of my long liner brush. I placed the brush onto the nail and dragged it down a tiny little bit, and that gave me the kind of teared drop shape that I was looking for. And it's just really subtle, and it was really easy. I then wiped off any excess, and I just added little details, like little eyebrows on top of the eye and underneath and lines down the side of the nostril going down to the teeth. Added little temples, just loads of little things, just to add them, little extra details and bring it to life. And now I'm going to show you how we create something cute and simple, like this one. As you can see here, I had too much product on my dotting tool, so I just went and wiped that away. I wanted kind of a dripping effect from what is going to be like the skull. And I just put that them dots down as a little guide, and then just drawn them out and perfecting the shape of my line brush. I then very simply, took Vamp again and used my dot until creating some eyes, and then I went in to create the nose again, in the same technique that I'd done in the previous design. And then added some little details to finish off. For the last design I'm showing you today, I'm going to be showing you how to do this one, which I start off mapping the shape of the skull with Badon tube before I go in with my liner brush to draw off the shape. When I'm using my long liner brush and I'm creating curved shape like this, I make sure that all of the bristles are coated. And I'm really just trusting the flow of the brush as I curve it round to give me nice seamless straight lines. Once I've filled it in, I then go and cure it. And I'm now going in again with Vamp and creating little heart eyes. And as you can see, before I'd done this, I also created two bones at the bottom, crossing over. I made sure when I'd done these, I'd done these one at a time, so that the lines remained nice and neat and didn't flow into each other. And after I've applied my supershine top coat and cured them, that's all of my designs finished. I'm absolutely obsessed with them. I hope that you guys like them as well, and I hope that this tutorial was easy to follow. Thank you so so much for watching, and I hope I get to see you recreating them. Thanks again and happy Halloween.