Always have room for Dessert- Dessert Nail Design

Hello everyone! I don't know about all of you, but no matter how full I seem to feel after eating a meal I always feel like I have room for dessert, even if it is just something small. I always say I have a special compartment in my stomach for desserts, especially if that dessert is chocolatey, then I can always find room for that, yes I am a Chocoholic, gotta love chocolate everything!  Anyways sometime ago I purchased some polishes that are dessert themed, I have done a design before with these polishes but I wanted to do another one using these same polishes. Unfortunately I looked these polishes up online and I can't find them anymore, but you could probably make your polish look similar.      

 

 Dessert Anyone? Dessert Nail Design

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

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

Nail polishes- Pretty& Polished- Donut Ever Let Me Go, Pretty& Polished- Double, Double, Toil and Truffle, Zoya Mini- Eden, NYC- Brownstone, OPI Hawaii- Do you take Lei away, and OPI mini- Hawaii- Suzi shops & island hops. 

Acrylic paints- white, red, yellow, and blue (three colors for making brown.)   

Nail art tools- medium dotting tool, and thin line and detail brush.

Other- cup of water for cleaning brushes, and a small glass jar with acetone for cleaning brushes. 

Let's start this yummy nail design!

* As with most nail art designs that we do, their will be a lot of jumping around from one nail to another, as we wait for each part to dry.  

 

 Dessert Nail Design

First start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails. 

Then once that has dried paint your thumb and middle finger nail with your pink dessert polish (Donut Ever Let Me Go) If you don' have this polish take a light pink and a rainbow glitter polish for sprinkles. Then paint your index and pinky nail with a chocolate brown polish (Double, Double, Toil and Truffle) if you don't have that polish take a brown and some copper of gold glitter polish to make a similar one. Then for you ring finger polish this nail with a pink creme polish.   

The index and pinky finger will stay as is with just the chocolate polish on it. 

Once that has dried we will start with the middle finger nail, the chocolate drip over the pink frosting. Take a dotting tool with a opaque brown polish and starting at the tip of the nail dab the polish all the way across the nail, then staring in the middle or on the sides of the nail start to make the drips with a dot at the end (I made three drips you can always make more if you would like), then at the bottom of the nail make two random dots, for some extra chocolate that has dripped.

Then once that has dried take Double, Double, Toil and Truffle and go over the brown polish. 

Next we will make the ice cream cone on the ring finger nail. Take a thin detail brush with a tan or peach polish and make a triangle shape for the ice cream cone.

Then with white paint we will make the outline of the ice cream, take a thin detail brush and make three long oval shapes, that are stacked on top of each other, making each one smaller as you get to the top of the ice cream.

Once your white outline has dried, with a dotting tool dipped into Donut Ever Let Me Go, dab the polish onto the white outline or ice cream part. Then on the cone you can add a drip of ice cream as well.

 

 Cupcake Nail design 

Now on to the cute cupcake. Take a liner brush dipped into a pink polish (the same polish that you used as the base color on your ring finger nail) and make a small square. 

Then we will start to make the cupcake, with a thin detail brush with white paint on it make three curved lines, then at the top make one big curved line that will all connect and then fill that in with the white paint. 

For the chocolate part repeat the last step just with brown paint, if you don't have brown paint mix yellow, red, and blue to make the color brown. Once the brown paint has dried take Double, Double, Toil and Truffle on a dotting tool and dab that onto the top of the cupcake. 

On your cupcake wrapper take a lighter pink polish and make a few small thin lines. 

For an added touch you can add a cherry on top. Take a medium size dotting tool with red paint or polish and make a small dot on top of the cupcake.      

 

   Dessert Nail Design

Once your yummy dessert nails have dried apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help your dessert nails to last until dinner or whatever meal you are eating is over, well longer then that. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this dessert nail design as much as you may enjoy eating dessert. If you are anything like me dessert is always your favorite and you always make room for it !

Also here is a link to the first dessert design that I did, this one also had a cupcake, some chocolate dips, and a doughnut, cookies and piece of chocolate. I actually think my second design turned out better then the first one, but the first one I create was still cute.

 Who Wants Dessert    

See you next time for more nail fun!    

Sea You By The Ocean- Gradient, Ombre Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we will be creating a very simple design.This design that we will be creating we have done before, a gradient or ombre nail design, but I got one of the new polishes from the OPI Fiji collection and I thought it would look great with one of the polishes from the OPI Hawaii collection. These two colors ended up blending together perfectly, and I just wanted to practice gradients and these two ended up being perfect for that.

 

 Gradient Nail Design using OPI Do you Sea what I Sea and This Color's Making Waves

For the OPI Fiji Collection of Spring 2017, I was only slightly inserted in one polish from the whole collection, so I purchase the polish, Do You Sea What I Sea. The other polishes where just boring to me and I have seen them over and over in the OPI line, even the polish I picked out I have seen before. I didn't want to to a full review if I only picked one polish from the collection, but I will do a small one and a comparison after this tutorial. 
 
Here are the polishes and nail art tools you will need (which is not much at all!)

      

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

Polishes- OPI Fiji- Do you Sea what I Sea and OPI Hawaii- This Color's Making Waves.

Nail art tool- a latex free makeup sponge/ cosmetic wedge.    

Other- Scissors to cut your sponge into small pieces.

That's all you will need for this simple nail design!

Let's get started!

* Before we start to polish, cut your large makeup sponge into small pieces, you do not need to use all of the sponge, unless your small pieces dry up in between each nail.  

Gradient Nail Design using  OPI Fiji- Do you Sea what I Sea as the base color

and  OPI Hawaii- This Color's Making Waves as the gradient.

Start off with a thin layer of base coat, I personally think CND Stickey Base is the best.

Once your base coat has dried, paint all of your nails with a shimmer blue polish, OPI Fiji- Do you Sea what I Sea.

 *Just a note before we start, I do my gradient different then most people, I do the two colors one at a time, this just seem to work okay for me especially for this gradient.

 

Let that dry and then take your small piece of makeup sponge and polish a shimmery blueish green with gold in it, OPI Hawaii- This Color's Making Waves. 

Then starting at the tip of the nails dab This Color's Making Waves on the nail, making sure their is more polish near the tip and less when dabbing up the nail, you may need to do this two or three more times to get the opacity that you want. 

Then on the other side of the sponge polish the base color, Do You Sea What I Sea and dab that near the cuticle to kind of blend the colors together. 

Another way of doing gradients is by polishing both colors on the sponge at once, polish Do you Sea what I Sea the base color, at the top of the sponge and then right next to it polish This Color's Making Waves (it is okay if the colors mix together.) Then dab the sponge on to the nails to blend them together to make a gradient. You may need to do this a few times to get the opacity you want.     

 

 

 Gradient using OPI Hawaii- This Color's Making Waves as the base color 

and OPI Fiji- Do you Sea what I Sea as the gradient.

As usually here on M.M.M we don't believe in boring nails, which mean a lot of time we don't match our nails, from the right to left hand. On the other hand (my right hand) I switched the colors and used This Color's Making Waves as the base and OPI Fiji- Do you Sea what I Sea as the gradient. 

I think both turned out really great and blended together perfectly, these two colors as a gradient remind me of the ocean, which I love. 

Now for the mini review of Do you Sea what I Sea from the OPI Fiji Collection. 

 

Do you Sea what I Sea, in the bottle.

Do you Sea what I Sea is a shimmery ocean blue polish. This polish was very sheer and took three coats to be opaque. This polish is very pretty, but really their is nothing to special about this polish, it a pretty ocean blue. I think the gradient I created for this post helped to make this polish a little more interesting.

The Fiji collection has 12 "New"  bright colors in this collection; ranging from pinks, oranges, blues, and so on. This collection has mainly cremes and one or two shimmers.

I put new in quotation because as stated above and in other post about OPI, these colors I feel have been released over and over again and all OPI does is change the names. I mean don't get me wrong OPI polishes are good, I just wish they would stop making the same polish and just changing the names. They should just come out with some new colors. 

The polish that I feel looks a lot like Do You Sea what I Sea is I Sea You Wear OPI, even the name is almost the same. I don't personally own I Sea You Wear OPI but the salon I work at has the polish and I held the bottle right up to my nails and they looked Identical. I Sea You Wear OPI is just more glittery, that is the only difference. 

Seeing how I don't personally own I Sea You Wear OPI, I don't want to use someone else photo in my blog to show the comparison. So you can always look up both of the polish to see how similar they look.  

Hope all of you enjoyed this ocean gradient, and hopefully it will remind you of the warm weather to come, if you live in a cold environment like me, or just a nice tropical vacation that I know I wish I was on.

See you next time for more nail fun!    

Unicorns Are Real? Unicorn Nail Design

Hello everyone! Sorry for the lack of post last week, in the area that I live in their was a bad wind storm that knocked out power for almost a million people and we had no power for a few days, some people almost a week. Also last week I just felt like taking a break from blogging, so it ended up working out. Anyways did all of you know that unicorns are real? They are the one that make holographic polish, and the wonderful rainbows that are in them, or maybe not I just thought that would be a fun/ weird way to introduce this weeks tutorial. As you may have guessed we are creating a cute holographic inspired, unicorn design. 

 

Unicorns are real? 

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

  

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

Nail polishes- Color Club Halo's- Harp on, KBShimmer- Blue- d Lines, China glaze- white on white, Zoya- Estelle, Zoya- Renee- Redbook trio, Sinful Color-Let's Meet, and Sinful Color- HD Nails. 

Acrylic paints- black, white, blue, red, green, and yellow.

Nail art tools- large dotting tool, thin liner brush, long thin liner brush, and a small detail brush (for small lines). 

Other- glass jar with water and a small jar with acetone to clean nail art brushes.

Let's start this magical nail design!

*Just a side note, for all of the nail designs that I do I jump around from one part of the design to the other (or nails). I do this just to wait for each part to dry before I move on. So I will paint the unicorn body, then go the rainbow, then back to the unicorn to add the details.  

 

Rainbow design 

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

When that has dried polish your thumb nail with a silver holographic polish, and your other nails with a blue holographic polish, then let that dry.

First we will start off with the rainbow that will go across three of your nails; the index, middle, and ring finger nail. For this part try to make sure that your rainbow lines up as much as you can ( this can be hard to do.)

I started first with the index nail, middle, then ring finger nail, using acrylic paint as just an outline, then later went in with nail polish.

First make a curved blue line on the index nail, then a curved line on the middle nail, then on the ring finger nail. I did this one at a time on each nail, then went on to the next color.

Repeat this step for each color of the rainbow. I only used four colors, you can use more or different colors. 

Once your acrylic paint has dried, you can go over that with nail polish in the same colors, or if you are brave enough you can start off with nail polish. I personally like to start off with acrylic paint, just in case I make a mistake. 

Then once your rainbow has dried you can make a cloud under it. With a large dotting tool make two dots at the top and two at the bottom, and one on each side, then you have a cloud. 

      Cloud nail design

On your pinky nail you can leave that with just the blue holo, or you can make two or more  clouds on the nail. I made big and a little cloud on this nail.

 

 Unicorn nail design

I thought I would save the hard part for last, the cute little unicorn. I did have trouble myself with this one, when I first started to paint this on my nail it just was not looking right, so I did have to redo this one. 

First take your detail brush with white paint and make the shape of her body, staring with the head and then the body, also make two triangles for her ears and one in the middle for her horn.  

For the final design, I made the little feet first. If you don't have pink you can make it by mixing red and white. Then make two large circles on the sides of her body, then two small ones in the center.

Now for the tricky part outlining. Take a thin liner brush with black paint on and outline the head and body, along with her ears and horn. Then where the middle feet are make four lines for her legs, and then outline the feet as well.

Next will be do more detail, For her eyes take a large dotting tool with black paint on it and make two eyes near the top of her head. If needed you can make her eyes bigger with a brush. Once that has dried make two white dots in the center of her eyes.

For her nose just make two small curved lines under her eyes.

Then for her smile make a curved line under her nose and one small curved line on the side.  

For her hair with a light blue and pink paint (or whatever color you would like) on a thin brush make small lines for her hair. I also added a few black lines a well, just for a outline. Also for her horn just add a few blue and black lines.

For her tail, using that same light blue and pink on a thin brush make a few curved lines for her hair, then outline that in black as well.

 

      Unicorn nail design

Once your cute nail design has dried apply a top coat, to protect your nails and to help your design to not chip as fast. 

Rainbow and clouds nail design

As usual I have been doing a simple version on my right hand, because I have trouble doing designs on my right hand, and painting the unicorn was hard enough on my left hand. The only thing different I did on my right hand, was I put different size clouds on the thumb nail. 

 

 Practice version of the unicorn design

I also wanted to include the practice version of this design as well, because the unicorn turned out super cute and adorable, and I thought it was worth showing. If I was to do this design again I would have made the unicorn smaller and her head bigger like in the practice version. But I still think the final version tuned out just as cute.    

Hope all of you enjoyed this cute and holo filled unicorn nail design, and now you know that unicorns are real (maybe!)

Some people say that holo is made from unicorns them self, but no need to worry no unicorns where harmed in the making of this design.

See you next time for more nail fun!