No Socks and Flops- Beach Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating a flip flop/ beach nail design, I know I am a little behind on this design, seeing how we are at the end of summer, or according to stores and the media we are already in fall/ Halloween season. But oh well, I still want to create a beach and tropical designs, after this one I do have one more tropical design already done, I just have to do a post on it. This summer we have been doing kind of a lot and I have not had much time on the weekend/ during the week for nail art.

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this beach and flip flop nail design:

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

Polishes- Sally Hansen- Insta Dri- Peeps Blue and Glam Polish- Sandy toes anything goes- Beauty and the beach. 

Acrylic paint- Blue, white, red, yellow, greens, peach and brown.

Nail art brushes- Thin stripper and detail brush, and a flat brush.

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Apply a base to clean dry nails.

Let that dry.

Polish- 

Thumb, middle, and ring- light blue (Sally Hansen- Insta Dri- Peeps Blue) 

*This is your base color for the ocean/ beach design no the middle and ring finger nail, your water is all done with acrylic paint, but you still need nail polish as a base for the paint to stick to.*

Index and pinky nail- ocean blue with iridescent flakes (Glam Polish- Sandy toes anything goes)

Let that dry. 

Beach/ Ocean Design on the Middle and Index Nails:

For your beach you will need two shades of blue, a dark and a light blue. For the light blue, I just mixed the dark blue and white to make the light blue that I wanted.

Starting near the cuticle, leaving a small bit o space, take your flat brush with the dark blue paint and swim to across the nail, do the same with the light blue. You will need to do this a few time to be opaque, also make sure to blend the two colors together when you paint the nails.

For the sand just mix a peach with a very small amount of brown to make your sand.

For the final touch in the water, take a thin detail brush with a very small amount of white paint on it make a few random lines in the blue, then before it dries smudge the lines to make waves.

Flip Flops on the Thumb Nail:

For the flip flop on the thumb I mixed red and orange to make a reddish orange for the flops. For the green plants on the flops I mixed green and white for a lighter green. 

For the flip flop shape, you first will start with the base of the flip flop where your heel of the foot goes, by making a long oval shape, then for the area where the toes go make a circle, these two shapes connect to make your flop.

Repeat this step for your next flip flop, you can make them right next to each other like I did, or you can leave some space in-between them. 

For the part the flop that goes in between your toes make a thick V shape with white, then go over the white with orange, that way the orange will show.

Lastly for the final touches you can outline the flop with white and also add some green plants/ flowers to your flip flops. 

Once your nails are beach ready, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last though your last minute beach trips, unless you are lucky to leave somewhere where you can go to the beach year round.

Hope all of you enjoyed this beach nail design and that everyone is having/ had a nice summer.

As stated above I have one more tropical sunset nails design as summer is winding down. 

See you next time for more nail fun!

Tropical Vibes- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we will be creating another tropical design, my favorite designs for this time of year, Summer time! For this design we will be using two of the polishes form the Holo Taco Lite Mode collection, along with the scattered Holo Taco topper, to create an ocean color nail design, with tropical vibes. 

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

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

Polishes- Holo Taco-Wireless Mode- Lite Mode Collection, Holo Taco- Lite Link- Lite Mode Collection, and Holo Taco- Scattered.

Acrylic paint- Black and white.

Nail art brushes- Thin stripper and detail brush.

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Apply base coat to clean dry nails.

Let that dry.

Polishes-

All of the nail we will be using two polishes to create a gradient. Holo Taco Lite Link (multichrome green) on the left side and Wireless Mode (mutlichorme blue) on the right side.

Gradient on all of the nails: 

For the ocean effect on the nails we will do a lazy gradient (that what Cristine Simply Nailogical calls it). The lazy gradient just requires the brush that is in the polish. The lazy gradient method,I think is best done with light colored polishes like these ones. 

First take your blue polish Wireless Mode and polish that on the nails only going half way on the nails, then right away polish your green Lite Link on the other half, making sure you over lap the polishes so they can blend together. You will need to do three layers so the nails will be opaque enough. 

Let your gradient dry. 

We will be creating our tropical design on our ring and middle finger nails. I will not be going in detail about how to create the palm trees because I done a lot of tropical designs, so I feel that I don't need to explain how to create a palm tree each time.

Two palm trees on the ring finger nail: 

Anyways for this design I first started with the ring finger nail. First we will make a large palm tree on the right side of the nail and then right under the large palm tree make a smaller palm tree. 

For the water, take a small bit of white paint on a detail brush make a few small lines and before it dries smudge those lines to make waves in the water.

Palm trees and islands on the middle finger nail: 

For the middle finger nail on the right side make an island shape by just making a thick line that has three hills on top of that line. 

Then make two palms trees on the left side of the nail, make one large palm tree that is close to the cuticle and then a small one under that one. Then make a small island that the palm trees will be on. 

Repeat the step for the water under the island/ beside the palm trees.

For a final touch in the sky, you can apply a scattered holo top coat to give a star look to the sky. 

Also on all of the other nail with just the gradient I applied the scattered holo taco top coat. 

Once your nail design is ocean and tropical vacation ready, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help to last though your tropical vacation.  

All of the designs that I create I always practice them, sometimes if I feel like they turned out very good I will share them on the blog.

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical ocean themed nail design. I thought blending the two polishes for the Holo Taco Lite Mode, Wireless Mode and Lite Link blended very well together and really gave an ocean look to the nails.

See you next time for more nail fun!

Dippin Dots Collection Review

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a good summer. Sorry that it has been a while since I have posted anything. Today we have a fun collection from China Glaze the Dippin' Dots Collection. Who remember Dippin' Dots being a big thing in the 90's, I remember just seeing them at theme parks and that they were suppose to be the ice cream of the future. Anyways when I first saw this collection I was very excited, due to the very bight colors in the collection. 

Let's take a look at the polishes in this collection. Also by the way I did not purchase all of the polishes in the collection, their is a blue and pink that look similar to polishes that I already own, so I decided to pass on those two. There is six polishes in this collection.

First we will start off with this super bright highlighter yellow called Lemon Ice. This as stated is a very bight highlighter with very fine/ small silver glitter in it. This was opaque for me in three coats, It was a little bit of a thicker formula, also if you are kind of messy when you polish this is a little hard to clean up due to the small glitter. 

Next we have another super bight highlighter color, Frosted Lime. Once agin this a very bright highlighter green with the same fine/ small sliver glitters in it. This was opaque for me in three coats. This had a thiner formula then Lemon Ice and I felt applied a little better.

Third we have Arctic Confetti, this is a white/ light pink crelly with rainbow confetti pieces in it. A crelly, if you don't know this is more common in Indie polish brands, they have a jelly like formula that is a little more sheer that way the glitter can show through. This was opaque for me in three coats. I like that China Glaze decided to do a more unique to main stream polish like this. Also this polish does look a lot like ice cream to me too, which is cool.

Lastly we have Rainbow Ice, a rainbow confetti topper that looks like sprinkles. This polish has way to much clear base in it which made it hard to apply, I actually had to poor this out on my nail mat to apply this topper to really get any of the pieces on to the nails. 

This polish I used as a base are from the China Glaze My Little Pony Collection, the pink is She's A Mane- Iac and the blue is Too Busy Being Awesome. I felt like these two polishes looked similar to the two in the Dippin' Dots Collection. 

In conclusion this collection is a very fun and bright collection, I feel like it does have a few unique polishes to it. I love the super bright highlighter colors; Lemon Ice and Frosted Lime, those two are my favorites. I do also surprisingly like Arctic Confetti even though it is a light pink/ white. The only one I would pass on is Rainbow Ice, due to it having too much clear base. 

You can purchase these at Sally's for $8.29 each. dippin-dots-nail-lacquer-collection

Hope all of you enjoyed this China Glaze Dippin' Dots Collection Review!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Golden Sandy Beach- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy Fourth of July to all that celebrate! Today we will not be creating a Fourth of July design, but a tropical design, which I love to do in the summer time. I love tropical anything in the summer time, really anytime. 

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

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

Polishes- Finger paints- Tiffany Imposter, Holo Taco- Hydropower- Electric Holo Collection, and Holo Taco- Gold Flakie- Anniversary.

Acrylic paint- Blue, white, yellow, green, and peach.

Nail art brushes- Thin stripper brush, flat brush, and fan brush.

Other- Water to clean off nail art brushes.

Apply a base coat.

Let that dry.

Polishes-

Thumb and pinky- aqua color holographic polish (Holo Taco- Hydropower)

Index, middle, and ring- a light blue cream polish (Finger paints- Tiffany Imposter), this is your base color for the nail art. You need a base color of nail polish if you are going to use acrylic paint for your nail art that way it has something to stick to, other wise it might not last as long.

Let that dry.

For the nail art we will be creating it on the index, middle and ring finger nails. 

Ocean water:

First we will start off with the water, you will need a dark blue, light blue and white for the water. If you don't have a light blue like me, take your dark blue and add white to make the light blue that you want. 

Starting near the cuticle, with you flat brush paint dark blue, light blue, and white. Then take your fan brush and swipe the three colors to blend them together.You will need to go over this a few times to be opaque, I did this three times.

To start your sand just paint a peach colored paint  on the tip of the nails. 

 Palm leaves- 

On the side of the index and ring finger we will make palm leaves.

First you will need a dark green and light green. If you don't have a light green mix yellow and green to make the light green that you want.

Starting off with the light green, take your stripper brush and make 4 curved lines from the side of the nail and then 1 small straight line at the top of the nail. 

For the palm leaves on each curved lines make very small close together lines. 

Once you have the light green lines done, for more detail take the dark green and make a few lines in over the light green lines. I did take a little bit of yellow as well but really that did not do much, so you can do that or not it is up to you. 

For the final touch take a gold glitter polish (Holo Taco- Gold Flakie) on a makeup sponge and dab that on the tip of the nails over the peach paint. You may need to do this a few times depending on the glitter you used.

Once you have your golden sandy beach design the way like, apply a top coat to seal in your design and help it to last during your topical vacation or if you are just dreaming of a tropical vacation like me. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical golden sand nail design and hope everyone is having a good summer.

See you next time for more nail fun!