May the Force Be With You- Star Wars Design

Hello everyone! From the title of this post you can already tell what this weeks design will be, if you are a Star Wars fan then this design I know you have been waiting for. I know you maybe thinking Star Wars has been out for a few weeks now, why did you wait to do this design? Well I had planned to do this design the week the movie came out, then I got sick and had to put it off, but I figured this is a very popular movie and it would be okay to do the design still. 

  Star Wars Nail Design, which side do you choose the Dark or the Light side?

The nail polish and tools used for this Star Wars design will be right next to the images as we go.

The skill level for this Star Wars nail design is:

 

  Intermediate 

This design has parts that are both easy and difficult. As far as the easy parts, the galaxy is the easy part, with just sponging on three colors, then adding glitter, and two X's for stars. The part that is a little bit harder is the Star Wars text on the thumb nail, and maybe the light saber and storm troopers.

Let's decide if we want to go to the Light or Dark side, or just start this Star Wars nail design!

  

 Base coat used Nicole OPI-  3in1- base, top, & strengthener

1. Start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails from the dark side or dark nail polish. 

  

Nail polishes used Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart 

and China glaze- white on white  

2. Paint all of your nails black, except your index finger nail, paint that nail white.

  

White acrylic paint and a thin nail art brush

 

3. First we will start off with the Star Wars title on the thumb nail. For the title I just look up online to see what the text look like to try and paint it on my nail. First we will write Star, take your thin nail art brush dipped into white paint and starting with the letter S and write Star.

   

4. Once you have painted Star, we will be paint Wars under that. Once again with your thin nail art brush dipped into white paint, starting with the W write Wars.

 

Sponge cut into 3 small pieces, and China glaze- white on white.

5. Now we will do the fun and pretty part (at least I thought so) the galaxy. Take a makeup sponge cut into small pieces (I cut three small pieces) and paint your sponge with white polish, then dab the sponge down the center of the nail or just random spots on your nails like the photo above.

 

 Zoya Dream and Aurora 

6. Next we will sponge on blue and purple. I thought the perfect blue and purple polish to use for a galaxy, would be Zoya's Dream and Aurora. We will first start off with the blue, take your other small piece of makeup sponge and paint that blue, then dab over/ near the white. Then take another small piece of sponge and paint that purple, then right next to the blue dab on the purple. You can leave some of the white showing if you would like.    

 

Cover Girl- Boundless color- Disco dazzle, sorry this polish is kind 

of old but you should be able to find one that is similar.

7. Now for the stars, this is very simple all you need is a sliver glitter with small and large glitter pieces in it, and paint it right over the galaxy you just made. Also for more stars you can add two white starts with a white nail art stripper, just add two X's near the top and bottom of the nail or wherever you would like. 

     

 White acrylic pant and a thin nail art brush

8. To add more of a Star Wars feel to this design we will be making two light-sabers on the ring finger nail. First we need to make the outline of the light- sabers, with white paint to make them stand out over the dark background. Take your thin nail art brush dipped into white paint make an X and go over it a few times to make the light-sabers thicker. Then make a two small lines for the handle of the light-saber. 

 

           Black acrylic paint 

9. As we wait for the light- saber outline to dry, we will create the stormtrooper on the index nail. Take your clean thin nail art brush dipped into black paint, and make a thick black line near the cuticle, then make two eye under that thick black line.

     

10. To finish your stormtrooper, make two lines in a triangle shape for the mouth, then two lines and a small triangle under the mouth on the tip of the nails. 

    Final Star Wars nail design on the left hand

 

 Polishes used for light-sabers Finger paints- Cubism Crimson

 and Sinful Color- Midnight blue 

11. Now back to the light- sabers, we need to fill them in. Take your clean thin nail art brush dipped into red nail polish and paint over one of the light- sabers, then clean off your brush and dip your brush into blue nail polish and paint over the other light- saber. Also you need to add some grey to your light- sabers handle. Take you clean thin nail art brush dipped into grey paint (mix white and black paint) and go over the white part of the handle.

     

 

 

Which side did you pick the Light or Dark side?  

Once your Star Wars nail design has dried, apply a top coat to seal in your design, as usually I used Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

  

 Star Wars Nail Design on the right hand

If you are having a little bit of trouble with the Star Wars letters/ tilte on the thumb nail, here is another option. Just add the galaxy on your thumb nail, that is what I did on my dominate hand, the right hand.

Hope all of you enjoyed this Star Wars nail design, and sorry I did not have this post done when the movie came out. But if you have not seen it yet or if you want to see it again you can wear this design to show your love of Star Wars. 

May the force be with you!

See you next time for more nail fun!