Autumn Harvest- Fall Design

Hello everyone! For today's post I have another fall design, a simple one. When it comes to this design I was trying to think of a color scheme that is not just boring neutrals (which is kind of popular in the fall), because here at the M.M.M blog we like wild nail colors! That's when I decided to go with an orange and burgundy french manicure over brown, then as an accent nail (or ring finger) a gold leaf. When it comes to my nail designs I do get inspiration for the internet ( Pintrest is my favorite website for nail inspiration.) Then I use that inspiration that I find as a base for my design and try to make it my own. Like today's design for a perfect example.  


As usual here are the polishes and tools that I used for this autumn harvest design:   

Polishes- Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat, Kiss nail art- Silver, NYC- Brownstone, Revlon- Gold Coin, Wet n wild- Glitter orange, NYC- Chelsea, and an optional glitter; Del Sol- Starry Night.

Tools-  a small thin nail art brush (The DL professional 10pc nail art brush from Sally Beauty, I numbered them from 1 largest - 10 smallest, this one I number brush 10.), another  optional small nail art brush (the one in the photo with a white handle), and a glass jar with nail polish remover in it to clean off your dotting tool. 

*As for the OPI nail envy- nail strengthener- base coat that I have been using for that past few weeks, I unfortunately do not like it and will be retuning it. I will soon have a full review of the strengthener; I thought it would be best to have a separate post for that.  


The Skill level for this autumn/ fall design is: 

Beginner

For this autumn/ fall design for the most part is a simple design that consists of a basic french manicure, then for an accent nail a simple gold leaf. The only part that might be a little tricky is the optional thin line above and under the slanted design, that is above the french manicure.  

1. Start off by paint all of your nails with two coats of brown. 

2. Next we will be creating a french manicure. The thumb and middle finger nail we will be using three coats of orange polish, and the index and pinky nail we will be using two coats of a burgundy polish, and for now leave the ring finger nail brown. To create a french manicure you start off on one side of the nail then swipe the polish across until you get to the middle, then pick up the brush and go to the other side and once again swipe your polish until it meet the other part you just painted.If you have trouble doing this you can also use tape as a guide.

3. Now we will be creating the accent nail, or the leaf design. Take your nail art brush dipped in gold polish, starting at the tip of the nail draw a slanted line that goes to the side of your finger. Repeat this step four times until you get to the top of the nail.

 4. To finish off the leaf repeat the last step for the other side of the nail. For an optional look, you can also add a glitter polish on the background.

5. Next, we will adding a slanted design above it. We will do this by taking your sliver nail art polish, slowly rotating your finger while drawing a sliver line above the orange polish, then at the end of that line, draw a slanted line that goes to the other end of the nail. After that, fill in the silver part.   

6. Do the last step on the thumb nail too. If you have trouble doing this part of the design this way, you can also try it the way I did it in step 7.

7. For the burgundy nails, the ring and pinky nail. We will be doing the same design with gold polish. For this color I don't have a gold nail art polish, so this one I did a little different. Take your small thin nail art brush dipped in gold polish and draw a line above the burgundy polish. 

8. Then once again at the end of that line draw a slanted line that goes to the other end of the nail. it's okay if the line is kind of thick because once again you will fill it in with gold polish.

You can stop at the last step or for an optional look, you can add a sliver line above and under the gold slanted design, and add a gold line above and under the silver slanted line. If you choose to do this, once again take your silver nail art polish or nail art brush dipped in gold, slowly rotate your finger while drawing a line, then for the slanted part just follow the outline to create a line. 

    Once your Autumn/ Fall nail design has dried finish off this look with a top coat.

Hope all of you enjoyed this Autumn/ Fall nail design. For next Friday I will not be doing a nail post because I will be going on vacation. But as soon as I get back from vacation I will do more tutorials.  

See you next time for my next design tutorial!

Trick or Treat- Halloween Design

Hello everyone, Happy Halloween! I know that it's a little bit early (well about two weeks) for Halloween, but I decided to do a Halloween design early because I will be going on a trip when it's actually Halloween. Anyways, for this Halloween design I decided to go with a cute themed design of a black cat, pumpkin, Frankenstein, candy corn, and a ghost. I based it on a photo that I found on Pinterest of Halloween cake poppers. 

     Here is the picture of the cake poppers that I based my design on.

The Polishes and tools I used for this cute Trick or Treat design-

 

Polishes- Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat, - OPI nail envy- nail strengthener- base coat,

Sally Hansen- xterme wear- Sun kisses, Sinful Color- Cinderella, Wet n wild- wild shine black, Sally Hansen- xtreme wear- White on, Sinful Color- HD Nails, NYC- SoHo, and Sinful Color-Let's Meet. 

Nail art polish used: Kiss nail art- White and Color Club nail art- Black. 

Tools-  small nail art brush, dotting tool, and a glass jar with nail polish remover in it to clean off your dotting tool. 


The skill level for this Halloween design is:

Intermediate

For this Halloween nail design their are some parts that are simple and other steps that can be tricky especially on your non dominant hand. Also, due to their being a lot of steps in this design, I gave this an Intermediate rating. 

Start off with a base coat. As I have stated in my other posts I am going to give the OPI nail envy- nail strengthener- base coat a try. I have used it for about four weeks, but this time when I used this strengthener/base coat it seemed to have made my nail polish go on very thick and streaky, I'm not sure if this happened because I didn't wait long enough for the base coat to dry. Due to this happening, I did not use a base coat. I will still give this another try, but if it still seems to be doing this I will return it and try another base coat.

1. Paint you thumb and middle finger orange, your index finger a light blue, and your pinky finger black. Leave your ringer finger blank for now. These colors will be the backgrounds for your characters. 

2. Next we will be working on the candy corn on the ring finger. I did this design freehand, but if you would like you can cut small pieces of tape as a guide to keep your lines straight. If you choose to do this design freehand, take your white polish, start off at one corner of your nail and swipe the polish to the other side, also make sure just to go half way up your nail with each color. Then repeat this step for the orange part. 

* For each nail I went back and forth with each nail design, in order to let each step dry before I started the next step.That's why some steps it may seem like I was going back and forth with each nail design. 

3. The next design will be the ghost on the pinky finger. Take your nail art polish and draw an arch shape for the ghost. Found this helpful to create the ghost shape.  

4. Then take your regular white nail polish and swipe the polish from the top of the arch shape to the tip of the nail. 

5. This step you can include with step 2, After you paint the orange part once again repeat the same steps that you did for the white and orange polish. (If needed refer to step 2.)

6. The next design we will be working on is the black cat. Take your black nail polish and about in the middle of the nail create a curved shape, then fill in the bottom half of the nail all the way to the tip of the nail.

7. After we finish the cat's head we need to make the ears. This will be done by taking your  black nail art polish and on the side of the head create two triangles, then fill them in. 

8. Next are the eyes and nose. Take your dotting tool dipped in yellow nail polish, dot two eyes on the face, clean your dotting tool off with nail polish remover, then dip your dotting tool in a light pink polish, then place the dotting tool in the center of the two eyes for the nose. 

 

9. Now we will create the cat's mouth. Take your white nail art polish, starting from the cat's nose, drag the stripper down just a little, then starting in the middle of the line that we just created, draw one line on each side. 

10. The final step for your cute black cat is the whiskers. Once again take your white nail art polish, on the side of the nail draw two slanted line on both sides of the cat's face.

11. The next character we will be making is the pumpkin. Take your orange nail polish, starting half way down the cuticle draw a curve, then at the bottom draw another curve, and then fill in the pumpkin shape.

12. Next is the stem of the pumpkin. Dip your small nail art brush into your green polish, draw a small line on the center top part of the pumpkin, then in the center of that line draw a curved line.  

13. Now that the pumpkin shape is done the next and final character we will create is Frankenstein. First take your green polish, staring half way up your nail, paint down to the tip of your nails for Frankenstein face, you may need to go over his face a few times. (I painted over it three times to get the green to be opaque.). Next we will create his hair, take your nail art polish and draw a rectangle above his head.   

* You may have noticed that the candy corn has a face in this step, I will be going over that once we finish Frankenstein. 

14. For a little bit of detail we will create the bolt that is on the side of Frankenstein's head. Take your white nail art polish and draw a small square on the side of his head.  

15. To finish off Frankenstein's hair once again take your black nail art polish and draw three triangles and fill them in.

16. For the final touch on your cute Halloween design we need to add all the characters eyes and smiles. Take your dotting tool dipped in black polish and on all your characters dot two eyes on the center of their face. After you finish all the eyes take your black nail art polish and draw a small curved line under all of their eyes, except for Frankenstein, for him just draw a small straight line.     

For an added touch I added a black dot over the yellow part of the cats eye. 

 Left hand nail design

Once your trick or treat Halloween design has dried apply a top coat.

 Right hand nail design

For when you are doing your nail design on your non dominant hand (for me I am right handed) it can be tricky. All you have to do is be extra careful and take your time and try to keep your hand and arm firmly placed on the table. Of course practice makes perfect!

Here is a picture of my practice wheel, I was trying out 

different colors to see which looked the best 

As always hope all of you enjoyed this cute Halloween design as much as I enjoy creating these designs and sharing them all with you. Also have a safe and Happy Halloween!

See you next time for my next design tutorial!  


   

 

Pumpkin Patch

Hello Everyone! It's that time of year again when the leaves change color, the weather begins to get cooler, and one of my favorite things about this time of the year: Pumpkin pie and other pumpkin favorite treats! Well, everything seems to be pumpkin flavored this time of year. Now that it is officially fall/ pumpkin season, I thought it would be better by also having pumpkins on your nails too.


The polishes and tools used for this Pumpkin patch design:

Polishes used-  Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat, - OPI nail envy- nail strengthener/ base coat, Sally Hansen- xtreme wear- White on, Wet n wild- Glitter orange, Sally Hansen- xterme wear- Sun kisses, Sinful Color- HD Nails, and Sinful Color-Let's Meet. 

Tools- A small thin nail art brush (The DL professional 10pc nail art brush from Sally Beauty, I numbered them from 1 largest - 10 smallest, this one I've numbered brush 10.), and a glass jar with nail polish remover in it to clean the nail art brush. 



The skill level for this pumpkin nail design is:

Beginner

  
For this pumpkin nail design their about 5 basic steps. First, start off painting all of the nails a solid white and the ring finger a glitter orange, then a basic shape on the tips of the nails for the pumpkins, then adding a curved line at the top of the pumpkin for the stem.

1. Start of with a base coat, I used one coat of OPI Nail Envy- nail strengthener. 

2. After your base coat has dried. Paint all of your nails except the ring finger white, this will be the background for the pumpkins. The white polish will help the orange of the pumpkin to pop. Then, for an optional look, paint your ring finger a glitter orange for the accent nail. Or you can paint all of your nails white and paint pumpkins on all of the nails. I just thought I would go with this look, having an orange accent nail.  

3. After the white polish has dried, take your orange polish and create a small square like shape at the tips, but at the top give the pumpkin a little bit of shape to it, by making it slightly curved.

4. Next we will be creating the stem of the pumpkin. First, start off by dipping your nail art brush into green polish, then draw a small line at the top of the pumpkin. 

5. You may also need to clean off your brush between this step and step 4. Now we will finish of the stem, by once again dipping your nail art brush into green polish, then start on the middle of the small line and go up a little bit to create a curved line.

To add a little more detail to the pumpkins you can add three curved lines. You do this by once again cleaning off the green from your nail art brush with nail polish remover. Then dip your nail art brush in yellow polish, and slowly from the tip of your nails drag the nail art brush up to create a cured line, do this two more times to make more detail in your pumpkins. 

 

Once your design has dried apply a top coat. For the pumpkins I did end up trying to go over the tops again to try and give them more of a pumpkin shape. I did that by dipping the same nail art brush in orange polish, and tried to make the tops a little more curved on the sides. 

As always hope everyone enjoyed this pumpkin patch nail design and also enjoy all of the
yummy pumpkin treats this fall.


See you next time for my next design tutorial! 

 

Midnight Blue Sand- Half & Half Design

Hello everyone! For today's design I once again decided to keep it simple, with a half and half design of a solid blue and another textured polish (love textured polish.) This is a design that I've actually done before just for fun, before I even started to blog. I just post designs on my personal Facebook page and this was one of them.   

Polishes and tools used for this midnight blue sand design:

Polishes-  Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat, - OPI nail envy- nail strengthener/ base coat, Sinful Color- Midnight blue, OPI mini- Liquid sand- Get your number from the Mariah Carey collection, and Kiss nail art- Silver.

Tools- Just tape and scissors.

The Skill level for this half and half nail design is:

Beginner/ Basic

This half and half design is once again very simple that anyone can do it. All that is required is tape placed on the nail diagonally, then painting one side a solid color, and the other side with a glitter textured polish. Then finishing the look with a sliver diagonal line. 

 1. Start off with a base coat, I used one coat of OPI Nail Envy- nail strengthener. 

2. Next you want to make your tape less sticky, so the tape will not peel up your base coat. You do this by putting a piece of tape on your hand and peeling it up about three times. Once your tape is less sticky, cut ten or more (just in case) thin pieces of tape. Place the thin strips of tape on your nails diagonally.

3. Now paint the left side a dark blue color, it's okay if you get polish on the tape.

4. Even before the polish dries you can take the tape off. I applied two coats of dark blue polish, I applied the second layer after I took the tape off, if you choose to remove the tape for the second coat you just have to be careful that you still keep the lines straight.

5. Next we will be applying the textured blue polish to the other side. You just need to be careful that you don't get any of the textured polish on the side that the dark polish is on. 

6. The final step is to add a diagonal silver line. Take your nail art stripper polish, start from the bottom of the diagonal part where the two color separate and drag the stripper up slowly to create a silver line to divide the two colors. 

Once your design has dried apply a top coat. Once again, like the last design, when it comes to textured polish you are not supposed to add a top coat, but I normally do anyways. I just make sure not to put too much top coat on because if you do decided to put top coat on a textured polish and you put too much it can smooth out your texture polish. Also, when it comes to the liquid sand polish, this textured polish looks more gel like with a textured look to it, so you have to be extra careful if you add a top coat because if you add too much top coat it will smooth out your texture polish even more. 

As always have fun mixing and matching colors to any color you would like. The color options for this look are endless. 

Hope everyone enjoyed this half and half look. See you next time for my next design tutorial!