Mandalorian and Grogu Nail Design

Hello everyone! Sorry it has been a while since I have posted, there has been a lot going on. A couple of months ago I got into a bad car accident that totaled my car. I was driving to work and was very close to work and some guy turned right into my Herbie, I was hurt and my dream car was destroyed. 😭 I was out of work for a week and a few days, I am much better now, but that was the most terrifying thing that has ever happened. I just wish people would just pay attention and slow down, I am far from a perfect diver, but what happened could have been avoided if that guy was paying attention. 

Also last month we also moved into a new home, are last apartment we had been at for a long time and it was time to go, it was old and the place did not want to do updates. Anyways now things are better and we our now settling in our new place. This also means soon I will have a room that I can do my nails in and no longer have to do them in the kitchen like I have been for years now. Anyway today we will be creating a Mandalorian and Grogu nail design to celebrate the new movie that has been in theaters since May 22. I just got a chance to create and design and I thought it is still ok to share, the movie is still in theaters as of typing this post. 

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

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

Polishes- Glam Polish-Mando Collection-The Child, OPI Holiday 2017- Ornament to Be Together, and Starrily- Northen Lights- Geomagnetic Storm Sights- Magnetic. 

Acrylic paint- White, black, mix black and white to make two shades of grey, green (mix green and white to make a light green), brown, and peach. 

Nail art brushes- Thin striper, detail, and linear brush, and a small dotting tool.

Other- water to clean off your nail art brushes. 

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

Polishes-

Thumb- a light green (Glam Polish-Mando Collection-The Child, Had to use the Grogu polish)

Index, middle, and pinky nails- a mutichrome polish ( Starrily- Northen Lights- Geomagnetic Storm Sights- Magnetic) 

Ring finger nail- a silver polish (OPI- Ornament to Be Together)

Let that dry.

Galaxy Nails, on the Index, Middle and Ring Finger Nails: 

Let's star with the easy part on the nails that you polished with a mutlichrome polish, this is like a galaxy in a bottle and a easy way to have galaxy nails.To make them look more like a galaxy we just need to add star. To make the bigger stars, take a thin striper brush with white paint on it and make two large stars, by making a cross shape and then with a dotting tool with white paint on it make a dot in the center. 

With the smaller end of the dotting tool make small dots all around the nails. Then you have a simple galaxy nail design. 

Mandalorian on the Ring Finger Nail: 

Now on to the harder nails, let's create Mando on the ring finger nail. First if you don't have a light and dark grey, you can mix more white and a very small amount of black for the grey color, then mix a little more black in to your light grey to make a little bit darker grey, keep these to separate. 

To make Mando's helmet outline, take a linear brush with a light grey paint near the cuticle make a half oval shape and then a long rectangle under that half oval, fill that in with the light grey, then make two line down the nail and once you get near the tip of then nails square off each side for the bottom of the of his helmet. 

Next we will make his eyes, take a detail brush with black paint on it and make a thick black line going across his helmet, then down the sides make tow slanted lines, fill in that area with black, then going down the center make a thick black line, where I guess his mouth would be? 

On the lower corner of his helmet make two half triangles shapes on both sides, with a striper brush with the darker grey paint on it.  

Next we will outline Mano's helmet, take a striper brush with dark grey paint on it then outline the outer part of his helmet, on the top part of the helmet make two lines going down the center, then outline the rectangle above his eyes. 

Grogu on the Thumb Nail:

Last by far form lest is our favorite green dude, Grogu, Baby Yoda, The Child, on the thumb nail. For Grogu's body color if you don't have a light green mix mainly white and a little bit of green to make very light green. 

In the middle of the nail make an oval shape for Grogu's head fill that in, then make two ears on the side of his head.  

For the center part of his ears take a detail brush with a peach colored paint on it and make a triangle shape in the ears.

For his face first make his nose, by making a small curve with a striper brush with dark green paint on it (I made his nose first to know where to place everything else, like his eyes). Then make a small curve under the nose for his little smile. Then make a few lines on his forehead for his little wrinkles. 

Next make two small ovals for his eyes and fill that in with black paint. Then make two smaller white dots for his pupils.

For part of his rope, make a small rectangle with brown paint under his head and fill that in, and then take that peach color paint and make a small line in the middle of his robe. We are just going to make this part of his rope to kind of keep it simple and to have a floating Groug head. 

For the final touch you can also outline your Grogu with a dark green paint. 

Once your nails are all ready to see the new Mando and Grogu movie, apply a top coat to seal in your nails and to make them last. 

Practice version of Mando and Grogu

Hope all of you enjoyed this Mando and Grogu nail design along with the movie, we did see the movie, my hubby and I on Friday May 22. I liked the movie I am a Grogu fan and I loved every scene that he was in he is so cute. I do recommend seeing Mando and Grogu in theaters and was a good movie for any long time Star Wars fans our just Grogu fans. 

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Super Mario Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we will be crating a Super Mario Galaxy nail design to celebrate the opening of the new movie. I have seen the new movie last week when it had just started, I liked the movie and thought it was very cute and I thought what would be better then to create a Mario nail design and I wanted to create a little more challenging design, it has been a little while since I created a little bit more challenging design. 

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

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

Polishes- OPI Hawaii- Do you take Lei away, Zoya- Renee- Redbook trio, Sinful Colors- HD Nails, Sally Hansen- Hard As Nails- Hard to get, Sally Hansen- Triple Shine- Lemon Shark, and Nicole by OPI- That's Just Plain Nuts!

Acrylic paint- Black, white, blue (mix white and blue, to make a light blue), red, yellow and brown.

Nail art brushes- Thin striper, detail, and linear brushes, and a small dotting tool.

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes.

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

Polish- 

Thumb and middle finger nails- a peach, skin tone color (OPI Do you take lei away?)

Index nail- a green polish (Sinful Color- HD Nails)

Ring finger nail- a brown cream polish (Nicole by OPI- That's just plain nuts)

Pinky finger nail- a yellow cream polish (Sally Hansen- Lemon Shark)

Let that dry. 

The Star on the Ring Finger Nail- 

First we will start off with the star on the ring finger nail, we will make an outline first of the star, this is so the yellow will show over the brown. Take a linear brush with white paint on it, in the middle of the nail make a star shape, buy first making a triangle near the cuticle, then make to more triangle shapes on the sides, lastly make to triangle shapes under the last two you just made, fill this in with white. 

Once the white has dried fill in the white with yellow. For The eyes make to small oval with black paint. 

For the bricks wall on the nail, just make three line across the nails, then make small line near the cuticle, making sure that the lines do not line up, then make some more lines on the next row, repeat down the nail. 

Question Mark Block on the Pinky Finger Nail- 

On the pink finger nail we will be making the question mark block that Mario jumps on, take a linear brush with white paint on it and make the question mark symbol, by first making a small square near the tip of the nail, then a small line going up the nail, a curved line, a short line going up, another curved and then a small line going down that line. 

Lastly make small brown circles on each corner with a doting tool.

Toad on the Middle Finger Nail- 

On the middle finger we will make the cute Toad. First we will make the curved line for his mushroom head, by taking a thin striper brush with red paint on it and make a curved line half way up the nail near the tip of the nail, then the top part of the nail all the way up to the cuticle fill that in with white polish. Let that dry.

Next is the red circle on his mushroom head. Take a detail brush with red paint on it and make two half circles near the sides of the nail and then a small circle in the middle of the nail, fill that in a few times to be opaque.

Lastly the final touch his eyes, make to black ovals and fill that in, then make two small dots in the ovals for his pupils.

 

Yoshi on the index Nail- 

For Yoshi we will start with his noes, take thin striper brush with black paint on it and in the middle of the nail make a curved line, in the middle of the curve we make two small ovals for the nostrils. 

For his eye make two ovals with white paint for his eyes above his nose, then once that has dried make two small black ovals in the larger white ovals, for a final touch out line the white ovals. 

Mario on the Thumb Nail- 

On the thumb nail we will make Mario. First we will make his hat, take a thin striper brush with red paint on it and make a curved line half way down the nail near the tip of the nail, then fill in the top part of the nail near the tip with red polish. Let that dry. 

For his facial features, we wills start off with his noses, make a large oval in the middle of his face. 

For his eye make two large white ovals on the top of the nose, then take a light blue and once the white has dried make two small ovals for the colored part of his eyes, then once that has dried make two small black ovals for his pupils. 

Next make is smile by taking a thin striper brush with black paint on it and make a curved line under his nose. For his mustache take a detail brush with black paint on it on both sides of his nose make a curved line, then another line going down from that line and two more curved lines on each side that will meet in the middle, then fill in this area for his mustache, hopefully that makes sense, it is kind of hard to explain how to make his mustache.

Lastly for his facial features we need to make his eyebrows, take linear brush with black paint on it and make to kind of thick curved lines above his eyes. 

Now for the final touches on his hat, take a thin striper brush with black paint on it and outline the curved line, then make a small curved line for the brim of the hat. In the middle of his hat make a small white oval, fill that in, once it has dried make a small red M in the middle of the circle. 

Once you are happy with your Mario nails, apply a top coat top to add a shine and to seal in your nails so they last through all of your game play and see the new Mario movie. 

Here is the Practice Version.

Hope all of you enjoyed this Mario nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!

Ready for Spring- Flower Nail Design

Hello everyone! Sorry it has been a while since I posted anything, it was a busy month of February. Anyways who is tired of all this cold weather and is ready for spring? Well unless you live somewhere warm, I have heard that it has been hot in some places all ready, all I know is the weather has been crazy everywhere! So I thought for all of use that are tired of the cold weather we could use some nice pretty flower nail art that we can put on our nails. 

Here are the nail art tools and polishes used to crate this pretty spring flower nail design:

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

Polishes- OPI- Hello Kitty- Look at My Bow, Sally Hansen- Color Therapy- Mauve Mantra, China Glaze- Shades of Paradise-Boujee Board, Orly- Kell's Galaxy Trio- Kelli's Moondust, Orly-Melting Point- Alloy Matey, and Holo Taco- Chrome Collection- Trophy Life.

Nail art tools- Thin striper and linear brushes and a small dotting tool.

Other- Nail polish remover/ acetone and water to clean off your nail art brushes. 

Apply a top coat to clean dry nails. Let that dry.

Polish-

Thumb, index, middle and pinky finger nails- a light pink cream polish.

Ring finger nail- a rosy pink cream polish.

Let that dry.

This is a simple design (at least that is what I think ☺️)

For each nail you can put as may flowers as you would like, some of them I put two or three it kind of depend on your nail length or if you want a lot of flower or not. 

First we will start off with making the petals, you can use the three colors that I used a purple (Orly- Alloy Matey) and lighter purple (Orly- Kelli's Moondust) and a light pink toned purple (China Glaze- Boujee Board.) Take one of the colors on a linear brush, then for example if you want to make your first flower (like on the index nail) make a oval shape near the tip of the nail, fill that in, make two more oval shapes on the side of the first one you made and then fill those petals in. 

For the second flower repeat the same steps, make a oval shape near the cuticle, then make two more to the side of that petal, lastly make two more petals/ ovals under the last petals that you made. Also make sure to fill in each petal, you may need to do this a few times to be opaque. 

For each nail repeat this last step, you can make the flowers bigger or smaller, a whole flower or just a half. 

Lastly for the final touch the gold leaves or steams. Take a thin striper brush with a gold foil polish (Holo Taco-Trophy Life) and from part of your flower make some lines that can look like steams for leaves. You can also make a few line on other random parts of the nails as well.

Once your flowers are spring ready, apply a top coat to add some shine and to help your nails to last.

As always now, here is the practice version.

Hope all of you enjoy this flower spring nail design and hope that we start to see some nice weather, that will stick around.

See you next time for more nail fun! 

It's too cold outside- snowflake nail design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is enjoying this super cold winter, just kidding! It has been way too cold this winter in the USA, even in the states that usually are not that cold, they are even having cold weather. I know where I live it has been way too cold and snowy and I am just ready for at least Spring time. Anyway we all may be tired of the winter weather, but why not have a pretty snowflake design on our nails, to somewhat enjoy the winter. 

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

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

Polishes- Zoya- Estelle, Holo Taco- Toppers- Scattered, and Holo Taco- Electric Holo Collection- Circuit Breaker.

Acrylic paint- White.

Nail art tools- Thin striper brush, a small dotting tool, and a makeup sponge for glitter gradients. 

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Apply a base coat to clean dry nails.

Let that dry.

Polish all of your nails with a shimmery blue (Zoya- Estelle.)

Let that dry.

Glitter Gradient on all of the Nails: 

First we will start off with a glitter gradient on all of the nails. Take a scattered holographic polish and polish a little bit on the tips of the nails. Now take a makeup sponge with the same glitter polish that you just used and apply some to the sponge, dab the sponge on to the tips of the nails, I did this two times over all the nails to have enough glitter. Then I usually with the polish brush will apply anther thin layer over the tip of the nails, to smooth out what we just sponged on.

Snowflakes:

For the Snowflake we will mainly be focusing near the tips of the nails. To make a snowflake take a thin striper brush with white paint on it and make a cross shape, then an X shape through that. On every line make two to three very small lines. Then to finish off your snowflake, make a very small dot on the very end of each line. 

For even more snow, take a dotting tool with a sliver holographic polish on it and dab the dotting tool on the random blank areas of the nail. 

On all of the nail you can do different amounts of snowflakes depending on your nail length. Some nails I did two snowflakes, some three and some just a half snowflake. 

Once your nails match the outside, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last thought all the winter weather.

Hope all of you have enjoyed this winter snowflake nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!