Teddy Bear Hugs- Valentine's Day Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy Valentine's Day! Well all most Valentine's Day. Today we will be taking a break from the Experiment 626 collection (more to come next week) and we will be creating a cute Valentine's Day design, called teddy bear hugs. This design will have a cute teddy bear on the thumb and a heart shape that will come together on the middle and ring finger nail.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Here are the polishes and tools used for this Valentine's Day design:

 

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

Nail Polishes- OPI- Hello Kitty- Look at My Bow!, OPI- Hello Kitty- Charmmy& Sugar, OPI Hawaii- Do you take Lei away, and Glitter Daze- Let's have a Waikiki.

Acrylic paint- red, white, and black

Nail art tools- medium size dotting tool, small detail brush, and Artist's Loft brush 0 (new brush set that I purchase from Michaels art's and crafts store.) 

Other- small jar or cup with water in it to clean brushes.

Let's start this cute teddy bear Valentine's day nail design! 

 

 Valentine's Day heat design

As always start off with a thin layer of base coat, my favorite is CND Stickey Base coat.

Once your base coat has dried polish your thumbnail a tan color (for the bear), your index a light glitter pink, your middle and index nail with a cream pink polish, and your pinky with a silver tone glitter pink.  

After that has dried, we will start off with the heart that will be on two nails and when you put your two nails together they should look like a full heart. 

On both your middle and ring finger nail with a thin brush with red acrylic paint on it, draw the outline of the heart shape, just half of the heart shape on each finger, and try to make sure they line up when you put your finger together. Then fill your heart with the red paint once you have the shape you want.

 

  Teddy bear holding a heart on thumb nail

For the more detailed designs like the teddy bear, I like to do that design on the thumb nail rather then the ring finger because the thumb nail is bigger and their is more space to paint.

For the bear you can have the base or background be any color like brown, tan, white, whatever color you would like your bear to be. I choose a tan neutral colored polish, and you know how I feel about neutrals (blah) but if I incorporate them into a design with color I don't  mind it so much. 

Anyways for your bear take a thin brush with black paint on it, first paint the circle for the head. Before the head is completely dry on the lower left hand side of the head with a wet Q-tip wipe of just a little bit of his head, this is where his paw will be.

Then draw his paw on that side of his face, this paw will be up. His other paw will kind of be more toward the side, so you will need to paint the paw a little bit tilted.  

For his body you just add two small curved lines on each side.

Next I painted the heart that the bear will be holding. For the heart first paint the outline and then fill in the heart shape with red paint. 

Once you have your heart, we will go onto the ears. For the ears just make to half circles on top of his head.    

Now on to his cute face, first we will make the white part on his face by just making a oval shape with white paint.This part actully looks better if the white is a little bit sheer.

Then with medium size dotting tool with black paint on it make two eyes and a little nose.

I was going to make a smile and maybe some rosy checks, but I thought the bear looked cute as it. 

          Practice version of the teddy bears 

Here is the practice version of the teddy bears, where at first I decided to have a smile and rosy checks on one of the bears. But in the finally design I thought it looked cute as is. 

  

Teddy bear Valentine's Day design 

Once your cute Valentine's day design has dried apply a top coat to seal in your design and to protect your nails.

 

 Valentine's Day design on the right hand

As usual or lately I have a simpler design that I created on my right hand. The bear was quite hard to make on my left hand, I am still trying to get better at draw more cleaner crisper lines which can be hard to do on a nail, but like with anything it takes time and practice. Also I am always on the search for small brushes that might help, which I recently found at Michaels in their paint area.  

For the right hand I decided to just paint a large heart on the thumb nail and the same heart that I did on my left hand. I did have some trouble lining up the two heart pieces, as you can tell.    

Hope all of you enjoyed this Valentine's day Teddy bear nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!

Next week we will get back to reviewing the Experiment 626, Lilo and Stitch Collection from Glam Polish.