Spring Bloom- Flower, Spring Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy Spring time! Today on the blog we will be creating a spring flower design, to get into a warm weather kind of mood. 

Here are the nail polishes and nail art tools used to create this spring design:

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and CND Super Shiney Top Coat.

Polishes- China Glaze- Chalk Me Up! and Finger Paints- Heavenly Hues.

Acrylic paint- White, red, green, yellow, mix white and red to make pink, and mix yellow and green to make a light green.

Nail art brushes- Thin stripper brush and linear brush.

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes. 

Apply a top coat to clean dry nails and let that dry.

Polish- 

Thumb and pinky nails- Light blue cream polish (China Glaze- Chalk Me Up!)

Index, middle, and ring finger nails- Periwinkle blue cream polish ( Finger Paints- Heavenly Hues)

Let that dry.

Thumb Nail Flower Design:

First we will start with the thumb nail and make a pink flower, take a linear brush with pink paint on it near the side of the nail on the top make one petal shape, two on the sides and then one on the bottom, you may need to go over your flower petals a couple of times to be opaque. 

For the yellow flower in the lower corner near the cuticle, do the same as the pink flower just make three petals. 

Once you have your petals take the tip of your brush with yellow paint and make a small dot in the middle of your flowers.

Then for some small details on your petals, take a thin stripper brush with red paint on it and from the center of the petals make a small group of lines going up the petals. For some more details, if you would like take some white paint on a stripper brush and outline your flowers.

Leaf details, take a thin stripper brush with green on it and make a squiggly line from your yellow flower and then make a small leaf at the end.

On the pink flower make a large leaf from the top of the flower.

Lastly make a long green line on the side of the nail near the pink flower, with a few shorter lines from that. Then we will make very small white flowers, take your linear brush with white paint on it and make two small flowers with a small yellow dot in the middle.

Flower on the Middle Finger Nail: 

On the middle finger nail we will be making a flower that looks like a plumeria. Take your linear brush with white paint on it, make a one large petal in the center of the nail, then two on the side and then tow more on the bottom. Let that dry and then take a thin stripper brush with yellow paint on it and make a group of thick lines in the center of the flower and going up the petals.

For the green vines coming from your flower, take a thin stripper brush with green paint on it and make some random lines from your flower.

Also only one petal of a pink flower is showing, make one petal showing from the top corner part of the nail.

Flowers on the Ring Finger Nail: 

For this design follow the step that you did to create the pink flower on the thumb nail, minus the outlining in white. This flower goes in the upper left hand corner. For the plumeria flower in the lower right hand corner follow the same steps as we just did for the plumeria on the middle finger nail.

For the leaf details, take your stripper brush with green paint on it make a leaf shape on the tip of the nail, make a stem at the bottom and top of the plumeria, then make a stem from the pink flower with two leaves on the stem.

Once you are happy with your spring flower nails design, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last all spring or just a little bit through spring time.

Here is the practice nail design 

Hope all of you enjoyed this spring nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Justin Timberlake- Forget Tomorrow World Tour Nail Design 2

Hello everyone! Today on the blog I will be showing you the second Justin Timberlake concert nail design that I created for the actual concert. Back in October of 2024, Justin was suppose to have a concert in Detroit, MI that I was going to go to, but unfortunately the show got postponed to February 20, 2025. I did get to go to the concert on the 20th and it was awesome! We had really good seats on the floor and Justin's concert was great, he really knows how to put on a great show. If you are Justin fan I recommend spending the money for the really good seats because it is well worth it. 

Above is the second design that I created, I still went with the same theme of all of Justin's albums. This time I did not put them in order of when they were released, I just put them on the nails that I felt like would fit on the nails the best. 

Album order:

1. Justified 

2. FutureSex/ LoveSounds

3. 20/20 Experience 1

4. 20/20 Experience 2

5. Man of the Woods

6. Everything I Thought It Was

On the thumb nail I still did a design for the album Justified, this time I still did the same blue and just the JT logo no heart.

On the thumb nail I created the design for The 20/20 Experience, for the most part I keep this the same, a suite for his song Suite and Tie. This time I did not put 20/20 in the corner of the nail.

On the middle finger nail I created a design for Man of the Woods, this I kept the same I just tried to make the trees look better. 

On the ring finger nail I created the same design for Everything I Thought It Was. This time I put it on the ring finger nail because there was more room on the ring finger nail over the pinky finger nail. 

Lastly is the pinky nail for FutureSex/ LoveSounds, I still created a disco ball this time I tried to make the design look more like a ball, last time I just made the whole nail look like a disco ball.

 Here is the final design that I created for the concert.

Here was the original design that I created, which do you think looks better? I think that I actually did better the second time around. When creating any kind of letter on the nails it is very hard to do on a small curved surface.

Hope all of you enjoyed this Justin Timberlake nail design!

Also check out the first design that I created, this post will show the step by step process on how this design was created. http://munchkinsmagnificentmanis.blogspot.com/2024/10/justin-timberlake-forget-tomorrow-nail.html

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Polar Bear and Penguin in the Snow Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we will be making a winter themed nail design, polar bear and penguin in the snow. It has kind of been a cold and snowy winter this year at least where I live and I know some other states have had a lot of snow, and even some states like Florida had snow which is crazy, anyways I thought to get rid of the winter blue we would create a cute polar bear and penguin nail design. 

Here are the polish and tools used to create this cute polar bear and penguin nail design: 

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and CND Super Shiney Top Coat.

Polish- Finger Paints- Heavenly Hues, Sally Hansen- Insta Dri- Hershey's Kiss- Sun& Air& Kisses, LA Colors- Diamond Crush- Cloud 9, China Glaze- Chalk Me Up!, Holo Taco- Linear Holo Taco.

Acrylic Paint- Black, white, red, and yellow. Also mix red and white to make pink, and mix red and yellow to make orange. 

Nail art tools- small dotting tool, thin stripper brush, and small detail brush. 

Other- water and acetone to clean off your nail art brushes. 

Apply a base coat to clean dry nails, let that dry.

Polish- 

Thumb Nail- a periwinkle blue (Finger Paints- Heavenly Hues)

Index and Pinky Nails- shimmery blue (Sally Hansen- Insta Dri- Hershey's Kiss- Sun& Air& Kisses)

Middle Nail- blue glitter (LA Colors- Diamond Crush- Cloud 9)

Let that dry.

Polar Bear in the Snow on the Thumb Nail-

We will first start off with the polar bear, take your thin detail brush with white paint on it make a circle near the tip of the nail and fill that in also make two small half circle for the ears on top of the head, then make a larger oval for the bears body fill that in as well, then make two small ovals for his feet. Lastly make to small circles near his face for his paws. You may need to go over this a few times to make sure everything is opaque. 

Let that dry, take your detail brush with black paint on it and make two black circles for the eyes, then a black oval for his noses.

For his mouth take a stripper brush make small line under his nose and then two curved lines under the small line to make a smile.

For his paws take your detail brush with your red and white paint to make pink, make a circle on the bears paws and then three dots above that. 

On his ears make to half circles with the pink paint.

Lastly make two small pink circles on his cheeks.

Penguin on the Ring Finger Nail-

Next we will be creating a penguin on the ring finger nail, take your detail brush with white paint on it, to make his head make a heart shaped then a oval for his body make both of these shapes connected to each other, then fill that in a few times to be opaque. 

For his body take a clean detail brush with black paint on it and kind of outline the white shape that you just made, just make sure that you make a triangle point on his head. Also on the side of his body make two fins.

For his eyes make two black circles. Then for his beak take your yellow and red paint to make an orange and make a small oval shape under his eyes. For the last detail on his face make two small pink circles on his checks. 

Lastly we need to make two little feet, take your detail brush with orange paint on it and make two small ovals where his feet go.

Snowflakes on the Index, Middle and Pinky Nails- 

On the index, middle and pinky finger nails we will make some snowflakes. On the index and middle finger nails make one large snowflake by first making an X shape with one line down the center of the X and then one on the side. On all of the lines make small lines for more of a snowflake look. 

For the smaller snowflakes near the cuticle make a smaller version of the lager snowflake that we just made, just don't add the small lines, these look more like stars. 

For the final touch take a small dotting tool with white paint on it and make a few dots on the nails for some small snowflakes. 

On the pinky nails we will just keep it simple with the star shape snowflakes and a few dots. 

  

A final touch for this design is to add a little sparkle to it with some holo, take a linear holo polish and polish over the whole nail on the index, middle and pink finger nails. On the nails that we created the polar bear and penguin just polish then linear holo on the background color.

Once your design is winter ready with your cute polar bear and penguin nail design apply a top coat to seal in your nails and to help them last.

Here is the practice version.

Hope all of you enjoyed this cute winter themed nail design.

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Blue Holo Gradient

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a good start to the new year. Today on the blog we will be staring off the new year with a more simple design a gradient design, yes I have done this kind of design before, I just love to sometimes just do a simple gradient design and I still wanted to share it with all of you even thought I have done quite a few gradients on this blog. 

On each hand I did do two different colored polishes, still a dark blue (the same dark blue) and then two different light blues. 

Here is the first version on my left hand which was my favorite.

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this blue gradient- 

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and CND Super Shiney Top Coat. 

Polishes- KB Shimmer- Plant One On Me Collection- Lilac It Or Not, Zoya Enchanted Collection- Saint, Zoya- Twinkling Collection- Jen, Holo Taco- Toppers- Flakie, and Holo Taco- Toppers- Scattered. 

Nail art tools- Makeup sponge for gradients, and Holo Taco Protective Peel Liquid Latex. 

First when it comes to gradient we need to polish all of our nails with our lights color. (KB Shimmer- Lilac It Or Not), then let that dry. 

Then for creating a gradient from lightest on the tip of the nails to darkest near the cuticle, first take make up sponge and polish your lightest blue polish (I used KB Shimmer- Lilac It Or Not) then polish your darkest blue color (I used Zoya Jen). Then with your lightest color on the tip of the nails, dab the sponge on the nails to make a gradient. 

You will need to do this step few time so your gradient will be opaque. I went over each nail twice. 

For an added holo touch, take a Flakie Holo topper and polish on the darkest part of your gradient and then a Scattered Holo topper right under that, but not all the way down the nail on the lightest part just a little on the lightest part. (you will be able to see this better on the other colors I did on my right hand.)

Now for the second version on my right hand.

For this color scheme we will still use the same dark blue Zoya Jen, this time the gradient will go from darkest on the tip of the nails to lightest near the cuticle. For the lightest color I used a more light periwinkle blue Zoya Saint. For the gradient follow the same steps as before just darkest on the tip and lightest near the cuticle. 

Then once again for the glitter take a Flakie Holo polish on the tip of the nails and polish it on the darkest part then, take scattered holo and polish that on the lightest part but just a little bit not all the way on the lightest part. 

Once you are all finished apply a top coat to seal in your design to help it to last.

Which on of these gradients is your favorite? My favorite is the first on on my left hand, the one I used KBShimmer Lilac It Or Not this gradient I feel has an ocean look to it, which in the summer time I might do again for a nice tropical design. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this gradient design!

See you next time for more nail fun!