Fiery Sunset- Tropical Sunset Nail Design

Hello everyone! It's that time of the year again, summer time when I love to create tropical nail designs. Anytime I create a tropical nail design it make me want to go on a tropical vacation, but unfortunately we can't always go on one, so why not create a mini vacation on our nails.
Also the tropical design is all created with acrylic paint and a white polish as the base (the part you can't see under the tropical design.) 

 

    Tropical Sunset Nail Design

Here are the nail polishes, paints, and nail art tools used to create this warm tropical nail design:

 

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

Nail polishes-  Sally Hansen- xterme wear- Sun kisses and Essie- Coconut Cove (this is your base color for your tropical design) 

Acrylic paint- White, black, red, blue, and yellow.

Nail art brushes-  Medium flat brush, small fan brush, small detail brush, and a stripper brush.

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

Let's get ready for a nice, warm, and sunny tropical vacation!  

 

 

Tropical Sunset Nail Design

As always start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails and to help your tropical design to last through your vacation.  

Let your base coat dry.

Once your base coat has dried polish your thumb and pinky finger nail orange, these will stay as is with no nail art on them. Then polish your index, middle, and ring finger nail with a white/ or off white polish. I only applied one coat of the white polish, this will act as your base (will not show at all on the nails) because the whole tropical design is done with acrylic paint and the paint does still need a polish base to stick to.    

 

 Tropical Sunset Nail Design

These steps need to be repeated on all three nails.

* Paints colors you will need for the sky: yellow, orange (I mixed red and yellow to make orange), and red.*

Let your base polish colors dry. Then on to the tropical design on our three fingers. On a flat medium size brush near the cuticle paint yellow, then orange right under the yellow, then red under the orange, make sure each color over lapses each other, this is for blending each color.

Then while the paint is still wet take a fan brush and blend the colors together, if the colors seem to blend away take a small amount of that color on the fan brush and paint over that part. I did end up having to to this few times.  

*Paints colors you will need for the ocean: dark blue, light blue (just add white to the darker blue), and white.*

Under the sky take a dark blue paint and paint that near the tip of the nail for the ocean. You will need to go over this another time for it to be opaque.

Then once that has dried some, take your light blue paint and go over the darker blue, so the colors blend and then add some white paint to the water as well so that also blends. I tried to make it look like a wave, but I'm not to sure that is look like one because my canvas is so small and that is hard to do on a small scale.

For the land take a small detail brush with black paint on it and make a thin black line near the tip of the nail, on the index nail make a small hill, also the lines do not have to be straight I made my lines more curved. 

Also I suggest for this part to use a black polish because the black paint seems to wear away faster then polish because it is on the tips of the nail, where you get the most wear/ chipping.

 Tropical Sunset Nail Design

For the sun on the middle finger, first make a oval shape with white paint, that way the yellow sun will show up, and then make a half circle on each side of the other two nails. Then fill that in with yellow paint.

Next on to the one big palm tree on the index nail. Take your thin stripper brush with black paint on it, from the left hand corner make a long curved line for the tree trunk.Then make four curved lines and two straight lines for the outline of the palm tree, then you just add small lines to the branches for the palm leaves.

On the ring finger nail you need to make another part of the land near the sun and kind of on the top part of the water. You just need to make a slanted line, a straight line and fill that in for your land.

For the two palm trees repeat the steps for the larger palm tree that we just made on the index nail. Just make one taller then the other.

 

      Tropical Sunset Nail Design

For this design you most likely will need to go over some parts a few time to make the colors blend together good and for them to fully show up/ be opaque enough.  

Once you have your tropical design ready for your vacation, apply a top coat to help your design to last thought your whole vacation. 

 

Tropical Sunset Nail Design, practice 

Also I always practice whatever nail designs I am going to do, and I really liked how this design turned out, so I thought I would share it with all of you. I really think the sky turned out to look very cool and like fire.    

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical sunset nail design and hopefully your next tropical vacation will happen sooner then later, that's what I sure hope for.

See you next time for more bright and fun nails!   

Unicorn Kisses- Zoya Sunshine Trios

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a nice summer. For summer 2018 Zoya released their summer collection with a lot of pinks and reds, they also released two toppers called the unicorn special effects toppers. This collection has 12 polishes including the two toppers. Not to long ago Zoya came out with two trios with three polishes in each trio, unfortunately I did not get a chance to review these polishes in time because the two trios are not longer available on the website, but I am still reviewing them because you can still get the collection just not the trios. 

 

First we will be taking a look at trio number one, both of these sets are called the Zoya kiss trios. Both sets have two creams and one of the unicorn toppers, I applied the toppers to each of the creams, I did not wear the creams alone.

 

  Nahla over top of Virginia 

The first polish is Virginia with Nahla over top. Virginia is described as a coral red cream polish.This polish took two coats to be opaque and it applied very well. 

Nahla the unicorn topper is described as golden iridescent with multi colored glitters with both small glitters and bigger hex glitters. This is meant to be a topper, I did apply just Nahla by it's self to my ring finger nail and it took around three coat with some extra near the tips of the nail. When applied over a color I just applied one coat.

 

 Nahla over top of Minnie

Minnie is described as a light pink toned coral cream polish. This applied in two coats and also applied very well. I also wore Nahla over Minnie in the photo above.

Nahla over top of Virginia 

  Nahla over top of Minnie

 

Nahla unicorn topper, Virginia, and Minnie 

Nahla, Virginia and Minnie are all $10 each on https://www.zoya.com 

Their is also a set of 6 polishes that also include these polishes and a few other as well for $60 Zoya Sunshine sampler set

The next trio that we have is the Zoya Kiss Trio Two. 

 

 Saldana over top of Delia

Delia is described as muted amethyst or purple/ violet cream polish. This applied well in two coats.

Saldana is the other unicorn topper, that is described as a light blue iridescent, with a hint of pink and blue shimmer, with small glitters and large hex glitters as well. Just like the other unicorn topper this is meant to be a topper, I did apply this to the ring finger by itself as well, it also took three coat and some extra around the tips of the nail as well.

    Saldana over top of Missy 

Lastly we have Missy this is described as a perfect summer pink, that's all it says on the website. Really this is just a light pink polish, this applied well in two coats. 

 

Saldana over top of Delia

  

  Saldana over top of Missy

 

 

Saldana, Delia, and Missy 

Saldana, Delia, and Missy are also all $10 each on https://www.zoya.com

Their is also another sample set as well with these three colors and a few more (6 total). The sample sets are full size bottles of each polish. This set also goes for $60 Zoya Sunshine sampler set

  

 

 Sunshine collections swatches

Also above are all 12 polishes from the collection swathed. 

 

 Favorite Trio 

In conclusion my favorite trio is trio 1 with Nahla, Virginia, and Minnie. I feel like this one seem more summer like with the colors that where in this set. Trio number two the colors just seem more spring like.

 

 Saldana and Nahla the unicorn toppers

As for the unicorn toppers they where pretty, but not the most unique polishes I have seen, I have seen polishes that where more unicorn like then these, but they where still nice, petty and unicorn like.  

Hope all of you enjoyed this review of 6 of the Zoya Sunshine collection polishes from Summer 2018.   

See you next time for more nail polsih fun!  

Target Time- Target Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be create a fun nail design based on my favorite store and many other peoples favorite store as well, that store is Target. Ever since I was little Target has been my favorite store and still to this day is my favorite, I go to this store way to much. So I thought it would be cool took make a Target inspired nail design, with the adorable Target dog mascot (the cartoon dog that you can see as soon as you go in their dollar area, is so cute!)   

 

 Target Nail Design 

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

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

Polishes- Zoya- Renee- Redbook trio, Finger paints- Tiffany imposter, and  China glaze- white on white. 

Acrylic paint- white, black, red, and red and white to make pink.

Nail art brushes- small detail brush and small liner brush.

Small cup or class jar with water in it to clean off nail art brushes.

Other- hole punch stickers for bullseye design. 

Let's go to Target with this cute Target inspired nail design! 

 Target Nail Design 

Start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nail and to help your nail design to last.

Let your base coat dry, I always like to let my base coat dry when I do my own nails, when I am doing other people's nails I just go right in with with the polish. 

Once that has dried polish your pinky and middle finger nail red, your ring and thumb nail with a light sky blue and then your index nail white. I wanted to add a light blue to this design because I didn't want to just use red and white (I do not like to polish the whole nail white, I just don't like the way white nails look) so I add the light blue for some contrast, and it did some what look patriotic because of the red, white and blue color scheme. 

 

Target Nail Design

Let your base colored polishes dry, then on to our Target design. We will first start off with the bullseye the Target logo on the index nail. Take a hole punch sticker and place that on the nail, this helped me to get the bullseye to look better. Then with red paint fill in the center dot and then the outer bigger circle go over the top and bottom line. Then right away take off the sticker, I ended up going over the larger circle a little bit to make the two curved lines a little thicker. 

For the middle and pinky finger nails we will just be leaving those two nails red, with no design on them.

 

 I love Target Nail Design

Now on to the harder part the words I heart/ love Target. Painting words on the nail is hard to do I actually don't really care to do words, but I do them anyways just for a challenge I guess. 

For painting letters/ words on the nails make sure to lay your hand flat on a table and carefully paint I and then a heart shape and then the word Target. I always use acrylic paint for words, well all nail art that I create, it makes it so much easier for words and just in case you mess up you can wipe it and try again.     

  Target dog design on the thumb

Last but not lest is is the cute Target dog mascot, I try to have him look like the cute cartoon version of the puppy. With a thin detail brush with white paint on it make a egg shape for his head with two triangle shapes at the top for his ears. Then fill that in with the white paint you will have to go over this a few time to make it fully opaque. I always like to have my paints to start of sheer and then build up the color for all of my designs.

For the ears and mouth I didn't have a pink paint so I mixed white and red to make a light pink. For the pink part of the ears, just make two small triangle where the ears are.

For the eyes just make to large black circles, then on one of the eyes make a red thin circle around one of the black circles for the red bullseye. 

For his nose make a small oval under his eyes. Then for his mouth make a small pink line going down from his nose and then a thick curved line for smile. Now your Target pup is all done.

 Target Nail Design

     
Once you have your Target nail design the way you like, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help your nail design to last for your next Target trip. If you are anything like me you go to Target every week or ever other week, so this design will only last one Target trip.  

Hope all of you enjoyed this Target nail design as much as you enjoy the store itself!

See you next time for more nail fun!   

Showers Bring Sunflowers- Sunflower Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be celebrating the warm/ nice weather that finally decided to stick around. We will be creating a sunflower nail design on our nails, which will be great for the spring or summer time.

  Sunflower Nail Design

Here are the nail polishes and nail art tools for this sunflower nail design. 

 

Base and Top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat. (same as always)

Nail polishes- NYC- Water street blue ( I don't think you can find this in the stores anymore, but you can always find this color in another brand), Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails - No hard feelings, and Sinful Colors- Frenzy.

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Acrylic paint- white, yellow, blue, and red (yellow, blue, and red to make a brown colored paint)

Nail art brushes- two thin detailed brushes. 

Other- a small jar or cup to put water in, to clean off your nail art brushes. 

Let's start this Sunflower nail design!

Sunflower Nail Design

As all ways start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your natural nails and to help your polish to last.

Then let that dry, then once that has dried polish your thumb, middle, and pinky nail with a ocean or water colored blue (I used NYC- Water street blue, I am not sure if NYC still makes nail polish, but you can always find this color in another brand.) On your index and ring finger nail polish those nails with a light purple (I used Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails - No hard feelings.) Also on the pinky nail I just polished some blue and purple glitter over the blue polish.

 

   Sunflower Nail Design

 

   Sunflower Nail Design, on thumb nail

Let your base colors dry and then we will start to make our sunflowers. On all of the nails I made each sunflower a little bit different. On the thumb nail I made two half flowers, the index a half flower near the cuticle, the middle finger nail a whole flower, then a half flower near the tip of the nail and then on the ring finger nail I made a large half flower.

For all of the sunflowers you first start off with the center part of the flower. I mixed blue, yellow, and red to make a brown colored paint because I don't have a brown paint. For the half flower just make half a circle and fill that in and then make some yellow dots in the middle for the seeds.

For the petals I used two yellows, one yellow I just added some white paint to it to change it up some. To make the petals you just make triangle shapes, and switch between the two yellows for each petal. 

 

    Sunflower Nail Design

Once you have your sunflowers the way you like apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help your design to last all spring and summer, or at lest a few days or a week. 

    Sunflower Nail Design, on right hand

 

          Sunflower Nail Design, on right thumb nail

A lot of time on my right hand I like to keep that design more simple. On my right hand I did the sunflower design on just my thumb and ringer finger and applied the blue and purple glitter on my index, middle, and pinky nails. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this sunflower nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!