Let's Build a Snowman- Snowman Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we are going to build a snowman! Not out of actually snow, we are going to paint a snowman and some snowflakes on our nails. This design may seem a little Christmas like, but I thought I could just make it a winter design and that seem to work out with then polish color that I picked out.

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used for this snowman design:

 

Base and Top coat - CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Nail polishes- Zoya Enchanted- Saint, Zoya- Urban Grunge- Alicia, and Funky Fingers- glow in the dark- #Boo2U.

Acrylic paint- white, black, blue, red, yellow ( red and yellow to make orange.) 

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

Other- a small glass jar or cup with water in it to clean up nail art brushes.

 Let's build a snowman!       

 

Snowman design on thumb nail

As always start off with a thin layer of base coat, to protect your nails and to help your winter design/ manicure last.

On all of you nails polish them with a periwinkle blue (I used Zoya's Saint).

*For this design we will be creating it on three of the nails; the thumb, middle and ring nail, the index and pinky will just have the periwinkle color on them. 

Once that has dried, on the thumb on the tip of the nail, polish that with a silver holographic polish (I used Zoya's Alicia) this will be the snow that the snowman will be sitting on. 

On your middle and ring finger nail you can polish that with one coat of a glitter polish, to kind of give a subtle snow look to the nails. (I used Funky Fingers- #Boo2U, which is a glow in the dark light blue glitter polish.)

As we wait for that to dry we can make our snowman on the thumb nail. I personally like to make the more detailed or a accent design on the thumb because their is more space then on the ring finger nail.  

Anyways with white acrylic paint make two snow balls, that are stacked on top of each other. Then make two small arms on the side of the snow man.

* For this next step you will need to mix at lest three different shades of blue, a dark (the original blue that you have), medium, and a light blue.  

Next with your dark blue make a scruff around your snowman's neck, you can go over this with the medium blue as well.

For the snowman I did jump around a bit, so the next step would be making two black buttons with a small dotting tool.

For his face with that same dotting tool and some black paint make two eyes. 

Then with some orange paint (if you don't have any mix red and yellow together) make a small carrot nose.

With your thin detail brush make a smile, to complete your cute snowman's face.

Next we need to make his warm, soft hat. With your thin detail brush and a stippling motion, paint the fuzzy part of his hat. For this I found that using a light blue and white without cleaning the brush made the hat look nice.    

After you have the fuzzy part, we will make the rest of the hat. With some darker blue make a curved shape for the rest of his hat, you can go over this part with different blues as well. Then after that just add a puff ball at the end of his hat. Now you have a cute snowman on your thumb nail. 

          Snowflakes on the middle and ring finger nail, on left hand.

 
       Snowflakes on the middle and ring finger nail, on right hand. 

Now on to our snowflakes. For this their is no set way of making your snowflakes because all snowflakes are suppose to be different. For all of the snowflakes that I made I stared off with a X and kind of a star shape, then I added random lines (like the photo above) some of the snowflakes I add some dots with the silver holo polish. 

For all of the snowflakes I used a thin striper brush with white acrylic paint.  

        Snowflake design on right hand

Here is the snowflake design that I did on my other hand, this can also be another option if painting the snowman is a little to hard. As you can see I tried to make each snowflake some what different, some of then I felt where kind of similar. 

    Final Snowman and Snowflake design.

Once your cute snowman design has dried apply a top coat to help your nail design for melting or just chipping. Now your nails are ready for the remaining winter months ahead.

 

 Practice snowman design.

Also here is the practice version that I did, I thought it turned out super cute and was worth sharing. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this snowman and snowflake nail design, even though it might have a slight Christmas feel to it, I felt like the polish colors I picked help it to be more of a winter design vs. a Christmas one.

See you next time for more nail fun!