November is a whole new year for the most part, but that doesn’t mean that Halloween should be seen as a passable-minimum opportunity to play with the color palette. Many of us are already in the midst of pumpkin makeup. To amp up the excitement for that particular season, and draw eyes to the zany designs that we’ve been poring over on Instagram, here are our favorite halloween nails.

Clockwise from top left: a DIY bejeweled Marge Simpson, Alison Haislip’s unforgettable face, Kenny Kensington’s “Goebbels smile,” Natalie Palamides’ pumpkins, Reina Raposa’s pumpkin headmaster, Karen Ott’s Alice Cooper, Jacquelyn Brown’s “Pixie Tail,” and more.

Meanwhile, other halloween nails to skip? The elaborate, carved-out mosaic patterns that have become very popular on Pinterest. (No one looks good with that many invisible patches on their fingernails.) Don’t worry — we have photos of some other inventive designs and we promise they’re just as cute and totally doable.