Holoday's, Easiest Design Ever, Chevron

Hello everyone! A lot of times on this blog we create some kind of hard/ detailed designs, well today I have the easiest design ever! That anyone and everyone can create, a chevron design. If you have been checking out this blog for a while now, then you know that I am all about the hand painted designs. But today I cheating a little bit, yes I used nail vinyls. I know shame on me, but I wanted to do a chevron design and I have been having trouble creating this by hand, so what better and easy way then with nail vinyls.

 

Holographic Chevron Nail Design.

I love the black background, it make the nails in the photo look so elegant, 

don't know why I haven't done this sooner!   

Here are the polishes and tools that we will be using for this design:

 

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

Nail Polishes- Cirque- Madder, Zoya- Urban Grunge- Alicia, or Color Club Halo's- Harp on.

Nail tools- Twinkled T Chevron nail vinyls, and some twisters to to pick up and pill the nail vinyls (twisters not show in the photo above.)

That's all you need! 

 

Holographic Chevron Nail Design 

As always start off with a thin layer of base coat.

Then for your base polishes paint your thumb, index, and pinky finger nail with a red holographic polish (Cirque- Madder) and then your middle and ring finger nail with a silver holographic polish (Zoya- Urban Grunge- Alicia). 

Once your base color has dried, on just your ring finger nail apply a top coat, a fast drying one would be best. This is so the nail vinyl will not stick to you polish, that you have already put on your nail.

Then wait until that nail has fully dried.

Take some twisters and peel off your nail vinyl from the sheet, and then place it on your nail. Then press down on the vinyl making sure it is on the nail good and free of bubbles.

* For the photo above I used two vinyls, you can use two or three, or even one depending on the length of your nails. I kind of wished I used three. 

Paint the same color of red that you put on the other nails, over the entire nail covering the nail vinyl.

Very important! You need to peel off the nail vinyl right away with tweezers, do not wait for the polish to dry! This will unsure that your chevron lines look nice and clean. 

 

 Holographic Chevron Nail Design  

Once all of your nails have fully dried apply a top coat. Your ring finger nail with the chevron will have two layers of top coat on it. 

Their you go a very simple way of do some nail art, with out have to have skills in doing nail art, or if you just want to keep things simple. 

I was not planning on do a holiday design, but the red holographic polish that I really wanted to use and the silver ended up looking kind of Christmas like. These colors ended up looking so beautiful together and would be great for the holidays or holodays!     


 

  Holographic Chevron Nail Design, using Color Club's Harp On

Want a little bit more intense holo and doesn't ? Then you can always use a linear holo instead of a scattered holo.

Zoya's Alicia (left hand) that I used to show all of you this tutorial is a scattered holo, which means the holographic particles are larger and less dense, and will not show as much of an intense rainbow, but still looks very shimmery.

Color Club's Harp On (used my right hand) and Cirque- Madder are linear holos, which means the holographic particles are smaller and create a stronger rainbow effect. When you look at the polish on your nails in the sun, you can see a circle in the nail from the holo.

Hope all of you enjoyed this holographic chevron nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!  

Golden Autumn Leaves- Fall Nail Design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a nice fall. This year has been a weird fall, especially where I live it has been warm for fall, now that it is the end of November it is starting to feel cold and more fall or winter like. Anyways today we have matte and glossy fall nail design that we will be creating. The leaves will be on a brown matte background and just to add some color, we will be add some gold as well.

 

Fall Leaves Nail Design  

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

  

Base and Top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat, Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat, for a matte look; NYC- Matte Me Crazy topcoat.

Nail polishes- NYC- Brownstone, Revlon- Gold Coin, and China glaze- white on white.

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

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

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

Let's start this fall design! 

Close up of leaf design on middle and ring finger nail. 

 
 Close up of leaf design on thumb nail.

Start off with a thin layer of base coat, to protect your nails. 

Then polish your ring, middle, and thumb nail brown and your pinky and index finger nail gold.

Once your base color has dried, we will first make the outline of the leaves with white paint, this will help the colors for the leaves to stand out.  

On all three nails I made a few random leaf shapes, their really is no certain way that you do this design.  You can make a simple leaf with only one point, or a leaf with more then one point.

Once you have the white outline of the leaves and that has dried, you take an orange, red and yellow paint and start to paint the leaves. For example some of the leaves I would start off with a yellow and then take a orange and go over that, while some yellow is still showing. For the leaves it is okay if you don't clean off your brush each time, it gives a nice blend of color when you do this. 

When you have the leaves the colors that you want, take a brown paint or if you don't have one mix red, yellow and a little bit of blue to make a brown. This will be for the vein of the leaves. For the veins just make a line down the center then, a few lines to follow the outline of the leaves.

When I had added all of the leaves to the design, it just felt like it was missing something. So with a small dotting tool I added a few white dots with some white polish, making sure to add just a few, that way you can still see the brown background.

 

 Fall Leaves Nail Design.

Then once your fall nail design has dried apply a glossy top coat to all of your nails. Once your glossy top coat has dried, on the nails that you did the fall leaves design on apply a matte top coat to give this design a different look. You may need to go over the glossy top coat again to make sure your nails are all matte.

I thought adding the matte top coat on the leaf design would be great for a fall look, along with a touch of sparkle/ color with a glossy gold color. Also the white dots I put into this design kind of look like snow, and this is kind of fitting for the weird fall that we have been having (depending on where you live) because one day this week the weather was in the 70's the next day in the 30's and light snow. I know crazy! 

 

 

   Fall Leaves design on middle and ring finger nail

Want another option? On my right hand I did the leaf design on just my middle and ring finger nail and polished my thumb, index and pinky gold. This maybe an even simpler option for you, if you just want the design on two finger or you could even just do this design on your ring finger as a accent nail.

Hope all of you enjoyed this fall leaf design! Also have a nice Thanksgiving!

See you next time for more nail fun!