Bunny Trail- Easter

Hello everyone! Happy Spring Time and Happy Easter! I don't know about all of you, but I am ready for the nice weather, even though this winter was not to bad, at lest where I live. Today we will be creating a cute Spring time/ Easter bunny nail design. 

 

Follow the Bunny Trail to some nice weather! Happy Easter! 

The nail polish and tools used for this design will be right next to the images as we go.

The skill level for this bunny nail design is:

 Beginners to Intermediate 

This design for the most part is simple with just glitter on two of the nails, and a simple dot flower. The only two nails that might be a little bit harder is the lager bunny and small bunny due to some of the small details. 

Let's follow our little bunny to some warm weather! 

 

Base Coat used- CND Stickey Base coat 

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

 

 Polishes used- Zoya Spring 2015 colors and NYC Brownstone

2. Paint half of your thumb nail with a shimmery blue (Zoya Rayne) and make a curved shape for your bunny head with a brown polish. Then paint your index finger nail with a shimmery yellow (Zoya Daisy), your middle finger nail a cream pink (Zoya Eden), your ring finger nail a light cream blue (Zoya Lillian) and your pinky nail a shimmery purple (Zoya Leslie). 

 

Sally Hansen- Triple Shine- Twinkled Pink

3. For the middle finger nail we will keep it simple with just some glitter on the middle finger nail, you can use a glitter that has a pink sheer base to it with some silver glitters in it. 

4. On your pinky nail that has the simmery purple polish we will once again add the same glitter polish on it. 

 Acrylic paint yellow, red, and blue mixed together to make brown, 

and Winstoina small detail brush.

5. Next we will create a small bunny on our ring finger. First we need to make mix yellow, red an blue paint together to make a brown color. It is much easier to paint small details like our little bunny with paint then polish, that is why we are using paint. Anyways first make a small circle for his head, then oval for his body, a small circle for his little tail, and one swipe of the brush in the back for one leg, then two swipes for two legs in the front.

 

6. Our bunny is missing his cute face, so we need to fix that. Take your small detail brush with some white acrylic paint, and make two small dot for the eyes, a small dot for the nose, then two small lines on the sides for the whiskers, for the ears just swipe one line on each ear. 

 

7. Now for our bunny's close up. On the thumb nail take the same brown polish that you used to make the bunny's face, take the brush in the polish and just swipe the brush from the top of the head to half way up the nail for the ears, do this two times for the ears.

 

 Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart, white acrylic paint, large dotting tool, 

thin liner brush. 

8. Our little bunny is kind of shy, so he will only be peaking out from the thumb nail. With your large dotting tool dipped into black polish make two dots in the middle of your bunny's face for the eyes. Then with white paint make a small oval near the tip of the nail for his nose, then on the side of the nose make two lines on each side for the whiskers, then swipe your brush on each side of the ears. Later we will be going over the white on the nose and ears with pink polish. 

 

9. On our index nail we will make a small flower with some dots on it. You can use whatever colors you would like, I used the shimmer and cream blue along with pink. Just take your large dotting tool with pink first, dot that in the center of the nail, then make dots around that dot you can mix and match the shimmer and cream colors for the petals. For a final touch you can dot some random dots on the nail, I put four around the flower. You can do more or less. 

 

    Final Easter Bunny nail design, Brown Bunny on the left hand.

For some final touches on our Easter nail design, we need to add some pink to our large bunny on the thumb nail. Take your thin nail art brush with pink polish on it and go over the white part of the nose and ears. Then for our little bunny on the ring finger you can add some grass, with your small detail brush with green paint on it make some random lines for the grass. 

Once your cute Easter bunny design has dried apply a top coat to seal in your design and to protect your design from chipping. As always I used Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat. 

 

 Final Easter Bunny Nail Design, White Bunny on the right hand. 

Want to change your bunny, you can make either a brown or white bunny or whatever color bunny you would like even a pink or purple bunny it is up to you. On my right hand I decided to make a white bunny to change up the design slightly. 

Hope all of you have a wonderful start to Spring and if you celebrate Easter, a Happy Easter as well!

See you next time for more nail fun!

It's your Lucky Day- St. Patrick's Day

Hello everyone! Happy St. Patrick's Day! To celebrate St. Patty's day we will be creating a design that is a little bit different, our Leprechaun will be a cute Minion, that we will be helping to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day! It's your Lucky Day!

The nail polish and tools used for this design will be right next to the images as we go. 

The skill level for this Lucky design is:

Beginners to Intermediate 

This design has both simple a more difficult parts. The part that make this design a little bit harder are the parts you outline. The most simple part of this design is the glitter gradient on the pinky nail.

Let's help our little Minion find the pot of gold!

  

Base Coat - CND Stickey Base Coat

1. Start off with a base coat to protect your nails from staining and to help your design to last longer. 

Polishes used- Zoya- Selene, KBShimmer- Peridot, 
and Sally Hansen- Triple Shine- Lemon Shark.

2. Once your base coat has dried paint your thumb, middle and pinky a shimmer green, your index a glitter light green, and your ring finger yellow for your Minion.

  

Color Club Blue Heaven, Cloud Nine, and Harp On.

3. First we will start off with the rainbow on the thumb nail, instead of rainbow colors we will use three polishes that have built in rainbows, holographic polish. First take your thin stripping brush with a silver holographic polish on it, and make a thin kind of curved line on the side of the thumb. Repeat this with a purple and blue holographic as well and silver one more time. I made four lines for the rainbow, you can make a few more if you would like.

   

White acrylic paint

4. This is an optional step that you can do or you can leave it as is (which is what I did on my right hand, which you can see at the end.) We will be making a small shamrock on the other side of the nail. First we will make the outline with white paint. Take your thin brush with white paint on it and make four heart shapes that form a shamrock. When this is dry we will be covering it with a glittery green polish.

  

Black and white acyclic paint, Kiss nail art stripper- Black, Sally Hansen- 

Triple Shine- Dive In, and thin nail art brush.

5. Next we will be creating our cute Minion Leprechaun on the ring finger nail. Take a light green nail polish and with the brush just swipe it half way up the nail, this is for his green overalls. Then with a black stripper polish make a curve line for his smile. For his eye mix a black and white paint to make a grey, with your thin nail art brush dipped in the grey you made make a small circle above his smile.

  

6. Next we need to make the rest of this eye. Just take some white paint with that same clean brush and make a smaller circle in that grey one, then clean off your brush and make a smaller black circle in the white one. 

  

7. After we finish the Minion's eye we will make the strap that is part of his goggles. With either black paint or your black stripping polish, make two square shapes on the sides of his eye.

 

8. Next we will add his pocket and some little hair. Take your dark green polish and swipe a small square on the larger square for his pocket. Then for some hair, take your black nail art stripping polish and make three lines near the cuticle.

  

9. On the index finger nail we will start to help our little Minion find the pot of gold. Take your thin nail art brush with black paint on it and make a half circle and then put a line at the top, it should kind of look like a small hat right now. 

    

10. This nail I actually meant to paint this with the dark shimmer green that way the holographic rainbow would not blend in to the background to much, but adding white over top helped a little bit. On my right hand I actually did this the way I was going to, which you can see at the end. 
Anyways for this you will need to first outline your rainbow with white paint to make it show up, just take your thin nail art brush with white paint on it and make four lines coming from your little pot. Then take your silver, purple, and blue holographic polish and go over that white.

    

Snowman rainbow glitter polish, silver and black nail art stripping polish.

11. On your pot of gold to change it up we will put rainbow glitter in our pot. Just take a rainbow glitter polish and with a toothpick scrap off a little bit of glitter and place it on your pot. 

12. Next we will be free handing a chevron design on our middle finger nail. With your silver nail stripping polish make a dot on the center of the nail as a guide then make two lines coming from each side of the nail. Try to make the lines come to a point. I made four chevron lines, depending on how long your nail is you can make more or less. If you don't want to free hand this you can use tape or nail vinyls to help. 

      Final Minion St. Patrick's Nail Design  

13. A step that is not show is the picky nail glitter gradient. This is a simple step, just take a small piece of makeup sponge and paint a little bit of the light green glitter polish on it, then dab the sponge on the nail, make sure their is more glitter on the tip of the nail and less going up the nail.    

14. Lastly for some final touches to our design we need to outline our Minion's overalls. Take your black nail art stripping polish and carefully outline the large square, along with adding some straps for his overalls, then outline the small square for his pocket.

On the thumb nail you can also add some glitter a the bottom of the rainbow for the gold, and an optional touch is to outline the shamrock with black paint to make it stand out more.

       Final Minion St. Patrick's Nail Design on the right hand 

Above is the design I did on my right hand that I meant to do on both, as you can tell that the pot of gold and the rainbow seem not to blend in to the background as much. Also on the thumb nail I just made the rainbow and no shamrock. 

Final once your cute Minion St. Patrick's nail design has dried apply a top coat to protect your nail and seal in your nail design. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this kind of different take on a St. Patty's day nail design.This nail design was inspired by a design that Nail Storming did, but as always I changed it up to try and make it my own.   

See you next time for more nail fun!