Pika- Pika- Pikachu/ Pokemon Design

Hello everyone! Today on the M.M.M blog we will be creating Poke balls and Pikachu nails. Their really is no reason that I wanted to create this design for all of you, other then just for fun. My hubby and I did just recently went to an anime convention, that was why I didn't post a few weeks ago and even though that is over with I still thought it would be cool to make Pokemon themed nails. I am personally not a big anime fan, I pretty much just like Pokemon and a little bit of Hello Kitty. 

 Pika- Pika, Pokemon/ Pikcahu nail design

Here are the nail polishes and nail tools used for this Pikachu/ Poke ball design:

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

Nail polishes- Sinful Color-Let's Meet, Finger paints- Cubism Crimson, and China glaze- white on white. 

Nail art polish-  Kiss nail art stripper- Black.

Acrylic paint- black and white.

Nail art brushes- thin slanted nail brush, and small thin nail brush.

Nail art tools- small glass jar with nail polish remove in it, and a cup of water to clean your brushes.

The Skill level for this Pikachu/ Poke ball nail design is:

Beginner to Intermediate

This design has some simple elements to it, the Poke balls are for the most part simple to make. Pikcahu can be a little bit harder to make due to the small parts of his face. Other then that their is not that many small details to this design, which makes it a little bit easier to create. That is why this design is both for beginner and for more intermediate level nail artist.

Let's start this Pickachu / Poke ball nail design! Pika- Pika!!

1. Start off with a base coat to protect your nails.

2. First we will make the shape of Pikachu's head. With a bright yellow nail polish make a curved line near the middle of the nail, then fill in the rest to the nail tip.

3. The other nails we will make Poke balls. Paint the top part with a red nail polish, and then the bottom near the nail tip with a white nail polish.  For the top part you can first swipe the polish across the nail then fill in the top. It is okay if the red and white polish do not look perfectly lined, we will fix that later.

4. Now back to Pikachu. We will add his ears, just take the brush that came with the nail polish and swipe on the sides of his head two ears. 

5. Next we will make Pikachu's face. With a thin nail art brush dipped into black paint start off by making kind of an outline of his face, his eyes, nose, and mouth. 

6. Once you have the outline of Pikcahu's face, with your black paint make Pikachu's eyes bigger and if need you can make his nose a little bit bigger.

7. For Pikachu's ears he has black at the tips. With a thin nail art brush dipped into black paint make a triangle on the tip of each ear, then fill that in.

8. Now to add Pikachu's red checks and a cute tongue sticking out. Take your thin nail art brush dipped into a red nail polish (I found that using acrylic paint near the tips of the nail would wear away faster, and that it is better to use polish.) and make a circle on each side of his face. Then just swipe a small line near his mouth for the tongue.

9. Back to the Poke balls, we need to add a black line in the middle of the red and white. Take a black nail art stripping polish, starting from one side of the nail then going to the middle, then on the other side met the line you just made. Make this line some what thick, you may need to go over this a few times to make it thick enough. 

10. Next we will make the center part of the Poke ball. Take a thin nail art brush dipped into black paint and make a small circle in the middle of the line you made.

 Final Pikachu and Poke Ball nail design

11. Once the black circle has dried, take your clean thin nail art brush dipped into white paint and make a smaller circle in the middle of the black circle. 

Then to finish Pikcahu, we just need to add the white circles in his eyes. Take your thin nail art brush dipped into white paint and just dot the brush on the black circles for his eyes.   

 Pikachu nail design with a big Poke ball

Once your cute Pikcahu and Poke balls nails have dried apply a top coat to seal in your design.

Pikachu and Poke Ball nail design

Which Pokemon is your favorite? My favorite has always been Pikachu ever since Pokemon was introduced to America from Japan because I thought he was one of the cutest Pokemon. 

With this nail design you can always change the Pokemon to whichever Pokemon that is your favorite, or just keep Pikachu.

Hope all of you enjoyed this Pikachu/ Poke ball nail!

See you next time for more fun tutorials!

Good Grief, Peanuts

Hello everyone! If you noticed the title of today's post Good Grief, then you may recognize  this phrase from a cartoon that you watched, when you where younger or even when you are older too, the Peanuts. The design we will be doing this week is to celebrate the new release of the Peanuts movie that was just released November 6. If you are like me then you grew up watching the Peanuts and have always enjoyed watching the Holiday specials that come on ever year, so when I found out their was going to be a movie I was very excited!          

Good Grief, Peanuts nail design. With the Pop Peanuts figures, 

love these the Pop figures they are all so cute!

The nail polishes and tools used for this Peanut design is:

  

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

Nail polishes- Finger paints- Tiffany importer, Sinful Color-Let's Meet, China glaze- white on white, and Sinful Color- HD Nails.

Acrylic paint- black, white, red, and yellow.

Tools- thin slanted nail art brushes and large dotting tool.


The skill level for this Peanut nail design is:

 Intermediate

This design can be difficult due to the small details and outlining of Snoopy, Woodstock, and Snoopy's house. Then some elements that are more simple like the clouds and Charlie Browns shirt. 

Good grief let's get this design started all ready!

1. Apply a base coat to protect your nails.

2. Paint all of your nails a sky blue expect your ring finger nail, paint that nail a yellow.

3. First we will start off with Snoopy on the thumb nail. As usual we will be using acrylic paint for the small parts of the designs. Take your thin nail art brush dipped into white paint and make the shape of Snoopy. I first started off making the shape of the top of his head, his nose, then the ear and his neck. 

4.Then outline the Snoopy's shape with black paint, and don't forget his smile. This part is a little bit treaty, you just have to be careful and slowly outline your character. 

5. After that make his eye, eye brow, nose, and then the black part of his ear with black paint. 

6. On to Snoopy's friend Woodstock on the index nail. Just like Snoopy we will start off with just the shape of Woodstock. Take you clean thin nail art brush dipped into yellow paint and make the shape of Woodstock. I first stared off the his head, his feathers, then his neck. 

7. Just like Snoopy we need to outline him. With black paint just follow the shape you made to outline him.

8. Now we will make Charlie Brown's shirt. Take your thin nail art brush dipped in black paint and make a zig zag pattern that resembles Charlie Brown's shirt.

9. As you can see the pattern looks to thin, so we will need to make it thicker by going over it one more time. 

10. Next on the middle finger nail we will make Snoopy's house. Take your clean thin nail art brush dipped in red paint and make the roof part of Snoop's house, a square like shape with slanted lines on both sides, then a smaller square attached for the bottom part of the house.

11. Once again we need to outline Snoopy's house with black paint. This is a little bit easier due to the more simple shape.

12. Lastly on the pinky nail we will make clouds, I only make two because this nail is very small. To make clouds dip your large dotting tool into white polish and make two dots at the bottom, two at the top, and one on each side. 

To finish up your Peanuts design, with Snoopy we just need to add a collar, you can do this by just swiping a little bit of red paint on his neck. As for Snoopy's house we just need to add some lines for some more details. Make a half line on the roof of the house and then a longer line under that one, then on the bottom part draw one more line under that one. Then we just need to add grass, you can do this by just taking a green polish and swiping it at the bottom for the grass, you may need to go over this three times for it be opaque enough.   

     

Once your nail design has dried apply a top coat to seal in your design.

Hope all of you enjoyed this Peanut nail design, that you can wear to the movie or just for fun!   

See you next time for more fun nail tutorials!