15 Halloween Nail Designs To Inspire You At Your October Appointments

If you audibly gasped when you heard the news about Disney’s Villains Land, then these are the Halloween nails for you. The glowing green poison drips, the green reflective foil details, and that perfectly painted, iconic apple come together to make a seriously cool set.

This color palette is wickedly cute, and those little ghosts and black cats? They’re just perfect. These are the perfect nails for someone who loves spooky season… but not so much the scary elements.

If you have a favorite Halloween movie you watch constantly in the fall, why not get nails inspired by it? These Beetlejuice nails feature a very cool hand-painted Sandworm, the iconic Polaroid, and Beetlejuice’s signature stripes.

There are so many ways to pull inspiration from a movie and turn it into nail art, so here’s a second design based on a Halloween classic. The neon green drip tips are so freaking cool.

Some people love to hate on pink Halloween decor, but frankly, who cares? These pink pumpkins and little wailing ghosties are so adorable, and they’re a design that works equally well on short or long nails.

Cauldrons, black cats, useful herbs — this manicure is giving “I have a home apothecary and I’m proud of it.” If you love all things witchy and Practical Magic-inspired this time of year, you need these nails.

Wavy abstract designs have been a trendy nail look for a couple of years now, and if they’re your go-to lately, why not use a bold orange polish to make them Halloween-y? You can add accents like bats, soot sprites, stars, or spiders in black to make them your own.

Very demure, very mindful. Girlies who stick to natural nail colors but feel like trying something festive, this one’s for you. Each little ghost has its own little personality, and you can make yours anything you want them to be.

And then there are the gals who never stop at simple nails. These stiletto nails look sharp enough to have caused all that blood splatter to begin with. These would be so cool as part of a scary Halloween costume.

These mix-and-match nails look so cute all together, or you could ask your nail tech to use just one of the designs for all 10 nails. Those black and purple French tips alone are so cool, and the little mummies are seriously adorable.

Horror movie fans will freak over these Ghostface nails. And if you’re not into scary movies, the black tips and white stars would be a super cute, corporate-friendly version of a Halloween manicure.

I’m sorry, the little rosy cheeks and perfect smiles on these pumpkins and ghosts are just too much. The light pinky purple and chrome bases are such a pretty backdrop for these precocious Halloween touches.

Those little skellies, are you kidding me? If your nail artist can pull off hand painting little skeletons on your nails, you should absolutely ask for a neon undead dance crew. The ghosts are adorable as well.

Splatter nails are so fun and kind of bring you back to your emo 2000s days, but that’s neither here nor there. If you prefer a cleaner look, you could skip the splatter and stick with the cute little icons on top: smiling pumpkins, ghosts, and bats galore.

French tips, but make them hot pink spiderwebs. Longer nails allow room for all the spooky imagery you want — spiders, bats, webs, and stars — but on shorter nails, you could stick to spiderweb tips only and get a very similar finished product. Also, the color scheme is *chef’s kiss*.