Don't Pinch Me! St. Patrick's Day Design

Hello everyone! Happy St. Patrick's Day! For this nail tutorial we will be creating a fun St. Patrick's Day themed nail design.  The design will include a shamrock, rainbow with a pot of gold, and a leprechaun's belt, so you will not have to worry about getting pinched! 

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Final nail design.

Here are the polishes and tools used for this St. Patty's day nail design:

* Yes they're a lot of polishes used for this design, but most of them you will only use 

a little bit of.

Top coat and base coat- Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat and Nicole OPI-  3in1- base, top, & strengthener.

Nail polishes- OPI mini- Hawaii- That's Hula-rious, Color Club- Mini- Green glitter, Sinful Color- Mint Apple, Sinful Color- HD Nails, Color Club- Metamorphosis, Finger paints- Cubism Crimson, Sally Hansen- xterme wear- Sun kisses, Sinful Color-Let's Meet, NYC- Water street blue, Revlon- Scented parfume- Not so Blueberry, Revlon- Gold Coin. 

Optional glitter for accent nail- Revlon- top speed- Hearts of gold fx.

Nail art polish/ stripper- Kiss nail art- Black.

Nail tools- Thin short brush, small tan flat brush,and a large dotting tool, and a small glass jar with nail polish remove in it to clean brushes.

The skill level for this St.Patrick's Day nail design is:

  Intermediate

This design is a little bit difficult without being advanced. Their is a lot to this design with the pot of gold and the rainbow, the shamrock, and the leprechaun's belt. The pot of gold and rainbow have some small details that can be tricky to create. The shamrock also can be a little hard to make as well. As for the rest of the design, the leprechaun's belt is simple to make. Also on your none dominate hand this can be hard as well. 

Let's start this St.Patty's nail design!   

1. Start off with a layer of base coat.
 

2. Once your base coat has dried, it is now time for the greens. Paint your thumb nail a mint green, I used OPI Hawaii- That's Hula-rious, paint your index, middle, and pinky a light green; I used  Sinful Color- Mint Apple, and then paint your ring finger a glitter green; I used Color Club- Metamorphosis.

3. For the simple part of this design on the ring finger nail, we will just be adding a silver- green glitter for an accent nail. For another option you can paint this nail gold with gold glitter. I actually did this for my right hand to have a subtle change.

4. Next we will make a shamrock on the thumb nail. Take your thin nail art brush dip it into a darker green, make one heart shape leaf, then another one upside down right under that first leaf you made. Then once you finished those two leaves do the same thing on the other side to make a four leaf clover/ shamrock.

*For just a side note, for some reason I have forgot to show all of you this step. This may just look like a big rainbow or splashes of color. This is how I do my nail art, I take a small or kind of large (as you can see in the photo above) spot of nail polish, that I dab onto a piece of paper or you can even use foil.Then I take my nail art brush and dab that in to the polish on that paper. I do this that way you don't have to keep dip your nail art brush into the nail polish bottle and risk drying out all of your polish.   

5. For the somewhat tricky part we will be making the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, on the middle finger nail. First take your black nail art stripper polish, and make a curved line to where the pot will be off to the side, then draw a straight line above that then a box like shape above that with a small curve on the side.     

6. Then fill in the pot shape with your black nail art stripper polish. Now we will let this dry and move on to the next nail.

7. For another simple design we will make the leprechaun's belt on the pinky nail. Take your black nail art stripper polish, draw one line near the tip of your nail then one above that, then fill that in. 

8. As we let then leprechaun's belt dry we will go back to the pot of gold. Now let's make the gold in the pot. Take your large doting tool dipped in gold polish and dot the gold pieces on top of the gold pot. I did not do a set number of dot I just did enough to fill the top of the pot. 

9. We finish the pot of gold, now the finishing touch the rainbow. Take your thin nail art brush dipped in red polish first, then make a thin line that curves a little bit from the pot of gold. Then clean your brush and go to the next color. Repeat this step until you have all the colors of the rainbow. The colors I used in order is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.  

You can start your rainbow at the top near the cuticle or near the end of the gold pieces, it is up to you on which method works the best. 

10. On the index finger nail we will be making the other half of the rainbow. This can be done the same time as the other part of the rainbow on the middle finger nail or on it's own. If you don't want to keep cleaning off your brush as much, you can do both at the same time. I actually did this nail separate and started off near the tip of the nail. Just like the last step you can start near the cuticle or the tip of the nail it does not matter. Once again, do the same thing as step 9 to make a rainbow.

 Left hand final design, with a green glitter accent nail.

Also to finish your leprechaun's belt, you need to add the buckle. Take your small tan flat brush dipped in gold polish and just swipe the brush in the middle of the belt. Once that has dried for a small detail, you can add a small square or just a black line in the middle of the gold buckle, you do this with your black nail art stripper polish.

Once your St.Patrick's nail design has dried apply a top coat to seal in your design. 

Right hand nail design, with a gold polish and small gold glitter.

Hope all of you enjoyed this St.Patrick's Day nail design, and have a fun and safe St.Patty's Day!

See you next time for my next design tutorial!

Aloha Spring! OPI Hawaii Collection Review

Hello, and Aloha everyone! Who is ready for Spring? I know I am, and for this week I have a new nail polish collection that is great for Spring and Summer. You may have guessed from the Aloha that this collection is Hawaii themed and you are right, I will be reviewing the new Spring 2015 OPI Hawaii collection (well some of the collection.)

 OPI Hawaii collection

Mini box set: Suzi Shops & Island Hops,That's Hula-rious, 

Lost My Bikini in Molokini, and Aloha from OPI. 

Large bottle: Go with the Lava Flow.

This is a collection I have been super excited about, I mean a little bit about the colors (you know here at M.M.M we love bright colors!) but mainly for the name Hawaii. If you have been checking out my blog for a while I have done a few Hawaiian themed nail designs, I have also mentioned how much I love Hawaii. I went there back in 2004 with my family (Ohana) and fell in the love with the place, Hawaii is so beautiful and I definitely recommend going there sometime in your life.

Anyways this collection has 12 colors in the collection with cremes and shimmers. I did not purchase the whole collection just the Mini's and one large polish. 

Here is a photo of the four nail polishes in the Mini's 

The back with a description of the colors and ingredients

The Mini's are a great way to preview the collection with out have to buy a large bottle and maybe not like the colors. Unfortunately their are only four polishes available in the mini's. It would have been nice for a different option, if you didn't want to buy the full size bottle, to have the whole collection in mini's, even if OPI had three boxes with a set of four in each box. 

As for the colors in this collection, they are not really that unique. Their are a few colors that you could probably find in other polish collections. As stated above I did not purchase the whole collection of 12 polishes, so I can't review those colors. But the ones I did buy where nice.

 OPI Hawaii collection on the nails

Starting off with the minis and then the large bottle, from the pinky nail to the thumb nail.

Pinky finger nail: Suzi Shops & Island Hops is a light bubble gum pink creme, the formula was okay it did go on kind of streaky or showed brush strokes. I am unsure if this was just because I had a mini version of this, the minis can be a little bit hard to work with because the bottles are so small. It took three coats to be opaque and not streaky. 

As you can see the minis have a small hole that can make it a little had to work 
with when taking your brush in and out when painting your nails. 
That's why If you really like a color I suggest buying a full size. 

Ring finger nail: Aloha from OPI is a bright and pretty creme-coral color. The formula was good on this one not streaky and only took two coats to be opaque. This was one of my favorites. 

Middle finger nail: That's Hula-rious is a  mint green creme, the formula with this one was just like Suzi Shops & Island Hops as it was streaky. But was fixable with three coats.

Index finger nail: Lost My Bikini in Molokini is a bright purple creme. The formula was good on this one as well, it only two coats to be opaque. The only thing with this purple is the smell, I mean all nail polishes smell bad but this one wow! it almost smelled like a sunk to me. I don't know if other people have had the same issue or if it was just the bottle I got. The other bottles where okay and just smelled like regular nail polish.  

Thumb finger nail, Large bottle: Go with the Lava Flow is pink/ reddish shimmer with yellow or gold like dust in it. This color is amazing! It went on great in two coats. When I was looking at this collection online and in stores, this one caught my eye and I knew I would like this color, that is why I bought this one in a large bottle. This colors also looks amazing/ the best in sunlight you can really see all the colors in the polish. 

 OPI Hawai collection with a Lei I got in Hawaii.

OPI Hawaii collection with the shell Lei's they give you when see a show in Hawaii.

In conclusion this collection has a lot of really pretty bright colors that are great for Spring and Summer, and remind me of Hawaii. They are just not the most unique colors out there and their are some hit and misses. With the colors I bought my favorites where of course Go with the Lava flow and Aloha from OPI. The colors I did not care for was Suzi Shops & Island Hops,That's Hula-rious due to the formula but the colors where pretty. Lastly Lost My Bikini in Molokini was okay the color was pretty, I just could not get over the smell.

If you would like to see the rest of the OPI Hawaii collection check out:
OPI.com 

OPI is a more pricier brand a regular size bottle from the OPI Hawaii collection is $9.50. 
The mini set of four polishes cost $13.95. 

I bought these polishes from Ulta with a $3.50 off coupon, so the regular polish was $8.08 and the mini set was $11.87. Even thought it was only $3.50 off the polishes, it is still a good idea to get a Ulta coupon to save even just a little bit of money.

This polish is also available at Sally Beauty and anywhere OPI is sold. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this review that I will do every so often.

Aloha! See you next time for my next design tutorial! 

 

Home Decor Inspired- Dot Design

Hello everyone! When it comes to nail design you can find inspiration anywhere from everyday objects in your home, to fashion, and of course the internet. If you have been checking out the M.M.M blog every Friday, then you know that I find most of my inspiration on the internet, then I try and make that design my own. For this weeks nail design it is decor inspired. 

 Home Decor inspired nail design

I took one of the pillows from our bed spread, that we got from Target and used that as inspiration for this weeks nail design. 

Here are the nail polishes and tools used for this dot home decor nail design:  

Top coat and base coat - Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat and Nicole OPI-  3in1- base, top, & strengthener.

Nail Polishes- Sinful Color- Charge it up (This is actually a Magnetic polish, I just painted on the polish with out using the magnet), and Sally Hansen- xtreme wear- White on.

Dotting tools-  I used three different dotting tools for this design a extra large, medium, and the other end of the dotting tool. These dotting tools are double ended, from large to small on one end and all the same size on the other end. 

I just ordered these brushes and dotting tools from Amazon. For a super cheap price $3.87 with free shipping, they did come from Hong Kong so it took a while to get to the US, but they seem like really good brushes and dotting tools for the price. So far I have only used the dotting and they seem to be good. I'm excited to give all of these a try, they are a lot more smaller brushes then my current nail art brush kit, so hopefully they will work out better.

If you are inserted in buying this set here is the link to the brushes, or you can find similar set on Amazon as well. 
15Pcs Nail Art Design Painting Drawing Brushes White + 5 X 2 Way Marbleizing Dotting Pen Tools Set.
  

The Skill level for this dot home decor design is:

 Beginner

This design has very few steps and for the most part is simple. The only thing is it that can be a little bit tedious making all the dots on the nail. But this design is still fun and simple to create. 

Now let's begin this dot home decor nail design!

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

2. Then paint all of your nails a navy blue. 

3. Once your navy blue base color has dried, take your extra large dotting tool dipped in white polish, starting in the middle of the nail and working your way to the sides make a row of dots going down the nail. It actually looks better with about three rows of dots.

4. Then once your white polish has dried take your medium dotting tool dipped in the same navy blue polish, and place a dot in the middle of the white. 

 Left hand nail design

Repeat these steps for all your nails, or you can do this design on one nail for just a accent nail. When I first stared this design on my left hand I did use the other end of the dotting tool for some of the nails, which ended up being to much dots on some of the nails. This design actually end up looking better with about three rows of dots. 

    Right hand nail design

Then once your nails have dried apply a top coat. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this dot home decor design and maybe you can find some nail design inspiration just laying around the house too. 

See you next time for my next design tutorial!