Well, there you have it! This month long marathon of Halloween nail art is coming to an end and I have to tell you... it's been a bit of a rollercoaster. I have to admit that this was basically a three month long process that started with working out far more ideas that I actually ended up doing back in the summer and then I actually started doing the nail art for this Halloween season in the first week of September, alternating through periods of going hard and then taking long breaks as my inspiration and executive function waned. I also ended up with a profoundly broken nail and some family struggles towards the end of this month, so I did have to leave these last two days without nail art, but I would say that 29 Halloween themed nail designs really is nothing to sneeze at! It has been super fun and I'm so thrilled with so much of the nail art I've been able to do. 

So without further ado, let's get into my very last Halloween themed nail art design for 2022!

When putting together 31 nail art designs in one specific theme, it quickly becomes apparent that you have to shift a little bit outside of the expected for that theme if you don't want to quickly lose steam and inspiration. And so while today's mani might not scream traditional Halloween vibes, I think that the witchiness of the stamping and the depth and uniqueness of the base polish definitely helps to sort of keep it in that zone. This mani was actually inspired by this one from @manifranny on Instagram because I love love loved the way that she kept it soft and simple - but witchy!

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I can definitely get in my head a lot about having to put together really intricate designs to share with you guys here on the blog, but sometimes I think some of the best designs are the really simple ones. Now, admittedly, I don't tend very often to just apply a base polish and then some stamping and call it a day, but sometimes the right combination of base polish and stamping is not only really beautiful but also has enough intricacy to really pop. It's just my opinion, but I really think today's mani is one of those ones that is simple but really pops. And... I just love it. 

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There's just... something about a craggy, spooky tree silhouette that I just absolutely love. Not even just for Halloween, I just love the look of a beautiful sky set off with that dark silhouette of a tree. All of this to say - of course I had to sneak one more creepy tree mani in here before the end of the spooky season. I mean... right? Anyway, I loved this single tree image from the Pueen Halloween Party 01 Stamping Plate so much that I decided to play around with the placement and use it on every nail!

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I think one of the things I do that's sort of really weird in terms of how I think about nail art is to sort of related it to other, completely unrelated things. An example of that would be when I compare a nail art design to wallpaper, which I do kind of a lot, or in the case of today's Halloween mani - pajamas. I don't even know what it is about this type of design that makes me think of cute seasonal pajama bottoms, but I absolutely do. Maybe it's the repeating pattern that makes me think of textiles and the cuteness makes me think of PJs. Whatever it is, I like to think of this as my pajama mani of the season and that, my friends, is a peek into how my brain works. You're welcome?

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Graveyard nails have definitely become a bit of a Halloween staple, but it can be hard to think of new and fresh takes on how to do them. Granted, I still absolutely love the traditional night sky gradient with black graveyard silhouette stamping and I think it's become a bit of a classic for a reason, but I also find myself wanting to find new ways to do this style of nail art. Enter the Manitude x Too Cute To Spook Stamping Plate, which has a perfect selection of images to put together a very cutely creepy graveyard nail design!

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There are definitely some stamping designs that I just... I just can't only do them once and today's mani is definitely one of those. Last year, I picked up this plate from KADS that has all of these gorgeous Halloween French Tip images on it and I just completely fell in love with this lacy chevron bat image. Of course, I knew I couldn't just straight up recreate the version of it that I did last time, so instead I decided to go with this nude color story that I think is just so crisp and gorgeous. 

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So initially the inspiration for this mani was a little bit different and I had planned on doing some Hocus Pocus themed nails with this background, but in the end I decided to go in a slightly different direction with a bit of a less specific witch and some bats. "It's freakin' bats... I love Halloween!" Anyway, I think the design turned out really good and brought the creepiness I was looking for at the end of the day.

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So for today's Halloween mani, I did something a little bit different than what I normally do in an attempt to try to recreate a mani that was clearly done with gel polish - often a bit of a hit and miss endeavor, I must admit - but I think it turned out pretty cool. I'm a huge fan of @ashxmcgrath's work and I think her Halloween designs are some of her best, but I really wasn't sure how doing my own take on this gorgeous mani using traditional polish was going to go or if it would even work. Luckily, I think my take on it turned out pretty cool!

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I want to premise this post by pointing out that I am not particularly good at hand painted nail art. In fact, I look at the stunning work that nail techs and other nail artists who do hand painted work do and I'm just absolutely blown away by their skill. But sometimes, just on occasion and often at Halloween, I like to dip my toes in the hand painting pool and generally the other good results I have with that are with gel polish, so for this mani I reached for some gorgeous products that were gifted to me from Aimeili and I think the results are actually pretty cool even though I do not have the hand painting confidence that I wish I had.

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One of the things I did while I was putting together ideas for this year's Halloween nail art was to go back and look at designs I'd done previously. I didn't want to do a straight up recreation of any of them, but I did like the idea of doing some twists on some of my favorites. One of my absolute favorites from last year was my Spooky Grunge Voodoo Doll mani that I did and I definitely felt like I could easily take the spirit of that one and do something a little darker and more gritty with it this year. In the end... I feel pretty confident that I was able to do just that. 

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Though it wasn't necessarily my intention, today's Halloween mani went from a generally witcht inspiration to something that feels distinctly Slitherrrrrry, if you know what I mean. That being said, I'm honestly like... straight up obsessed with this mani and how it all turned out. I had sort of a loose idea of what I was going to do... something in my notes like "deep green, witchy images".. but I was so very much no prepared for how this turned out in the end. I do not like to toot my own horn, but I am just so in love with how this one turned out. 

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I have to be totally honest. After my Purple Holo Tip Gradient Spiderweb Nails, I really did think that I would leave this particular technique to the side for this spooky season, but I just couldn't resist doing a slightly different and more colorful version. I mean, really, I think I would have pretty easily been able to create at least a handful of distinctly different versions of this mani for Halloween with ease, but I definitely wanted to change it up somewhat. Maybe. I don't know. I'm pretty in love with how this one turned out though!

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I have to say, this year is definitely turning out to be the cutest round of Halloween nails I've ever done, thanks in no small part to a couple of fantastic stamping plates from Manitude, and I am definitely not mad at it. I knew when I started planning this year's raft of Halloween nail art designs that I wanted to do something really adorable with the witch and cat images from the ManitudexTooCuteToSpook stamping plate and I actually wracked my brains for a while on just exactly what I wanted to do... and then the perfect base polish arrived and I knew exactly what I was going to do!

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I feel fairly confident that the first real nail art design I ever did for the blog was a really simple graveyard design that has become sort of a classic, and as the years have gone by I've continued to do a lot of different graveyard designs with increasing complexity. One of my personal favorite styles of graveyard nails is a layered design so that you almost get that look of depth and mistiness through it. Even though I did a mani very, very similar to this one last year, I decided that I wanted to recreate it with a few key differences this year because... well, mostly just because I love this design and I can do whatever I want. I mean, if we're being honest and all. 

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As soon as I started jotting down ideas for Halloween nail art, I knew that I wanted to bust the pastels back out and do something playful and light overall. Cue my favorite way of putting together a rainbow gradient that really brings the unicorn vibes - using only 3 stamping polishes! Honestly, I'm sort of obsessed with these rainbow gradients and have been reaching for these three polishes often to create various different versions of it, so it only seemed fitting to bust them out for Halloween as well. Afterall, Halloween isn't all ghouls and blood, right?

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I don't know if it's just me, but the pairing of hot pink and black, especially if it's a little bit deeper and more berry of a pink, just straight up reminds me of the early to mid 00s and the height of the hot topic swoopy haired emo kid revolution. And, of course, that absolutely always ends up being something I'm inspired to play with at Halloween. This particular mani actually started out with an entirely different plan, and then this mani but a much more simple version, and finally this one in all it's simple-but-also-kitchen sink glory!

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Admittedly, when I sat down and started thinking about which polishes I wanted to bust out for Halloween nails, the ones I used to create this mani didn't even come close to entering my mind. It actually wasn't until I saw this mani from Ash @ashxmcgrath on Instagram that I absolutely had to create my own version of it. I mean... I was immediately in love with the design and I loved the really frothy pink color palette. Of course, the original mani was hand painted, as all of her gorgeous work is, and I am absolute trash at hand painting - but luckily I had the perfect stamping plate to use to make my own version of this design!

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