Hallows Eve- Halloween Nail Design

Hello everyone! Anyone have any fun plans for Halloween? Not me I will just be working at the salon. It has been a while since I really did anything for Halloween, growing up my favorite part was getting a lot of candy when we went trick or treating. 
If you do plan on going to any Halloween parties, or even just staying in for the night, this design we will be creating today would be great for any plan that you have for Halloween.  

 

 

For the gradient we will use yellow polish (Sinful Color-Let's Meet), an orange (Sally Hansen- xterme wear- Sun kisses), and a black and white glitter (Revlon- Rebel graffiti.)  

Your background colors we will use an off white (Essie- Coconut Cove) for the thumb, a darker orange(Sally Hansen- Triple Shine- Play Koi) for the middle finger nail, and a black polish (Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart) for the ring finger nail.

The small details/ the nail art itself we will use acrylic paint and a small detail and liner brush. 

   For any design start off with a nice thin coat of base coat (CND Stickey Base) to protect your nails. Once your base coat has dried, apply a white on the thumb nail, a yellow on the index and pinky nail, a darker orange on the middle finger nail, and a black on the ring finger nail. 

On the thumb nail we will make a kitty sitting on top of a pumpkin. First make a pumpkin shape with your detail brush and orange paint, you may need to go over this a few times to be opaque. Once the orange has dried take you detail brush make two circles for the eyes, and an oval for the nose, and for the mouth make a curved line near the tip of the nail and then paint some squares for the teeth.  

For your kitty make a round shape for the head, two triangles for the ears, and two paws on the pumpkin, then a curved line for it's tail, then fill that in with black paint. Once the black has dry paint two eyes and a nose with white paint.

   For your gradient on the ring and pinky nail, paint just the top part near the cuticle with an orange, only going half way down then nail, then take that same yellow that you painted the whole nail with and paint over just the bottom half of that orange to blend the colors. After that has dried take a black and white glitter polish and polish mainly over the yellow, have more glitter on the yellow and just a little on the orange, just like a gradient. 

Now on to the Jack o lantern, with a small detail brush and black paint make two triangles near the cuticle for it's eyes, then one in the center for it's nose, for the mouth first draw a curved line then fill that in and then make three small squares for teeth.  

 

Lastly we will be creating two ghost, with a liner brush and white paint make an arch shape on the corners of the nail and fill that in for the body, then make two arms on the sides. Once the white part of the ghost has dried, take a thin detail brush with black paint and make two eyes and a bigger dot for the mouth, you can also use a dotting tool for this as well.

 

Once your spooky (well not so much, more cute then anything) Halloween design has dried apply a top coat to protect your nails and to help your design last longer. 

Hope all of you have a fun an safe Halloween!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

  

Pumpkin Spice- Pumpkin Nail Design

Hello everyone! Sorry I didn't do a post last week I just got a job at a nail salon and I have not had a chance to do a blog post. Being in a salon has been a very different experience for me and I have just been trying to learn, and their has been a lot of ups and downs with this new experience. Anyways for today we have a pumpkin nail design that we will be making. 

  

For this design all you need is a orange polish (the one I used is an orange glitter polish from Wet n Wild) and then a tan color for your accent nails or your middle and ring finger nail. (polished used OPI Hawaii- Do you take Lei away). Then for the design it self we will use a small detail brush with acrylic paint, you can mix colors to make the orange and brown or if you have those colors that works too. 

   

For this design apply a base coat (CND Stickey Base), then once you base coat has dried, apply your base/ background color of a glitter orange and a tan colored polish.

For the pumpkins on the middle finger nail we will make one large pumpkin and the ring finger nail two small pumpkins side by side. For each size of pumpkin just make a circle of different sizes. Outline the pumpkin with brown and then add a few curved lines inside the pumpkin. After that just add a small brown steam at the top and then a few green curved lines at the top for the branches or leaves. Once everything has dried apply a top coat (Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.)

I am still try to figure out how I want to format this blog. So for this week and most likely from here on out I am try something a little different, a short and simple format.  

Hope everyone enjoyed this pumpkin nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!  

Meow! Kitty Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating a cute kitty design, a kitty that will be playing with a ball of yarn. I really like cute animals from puppies, kitties, pandas, koalas, etc. So I thought it would be fun to make a cute kitty design with all of you. Maybe some of you also share the same love of animals as nail polish, so why not combine the two.

 

 Meow Kitty Cat Design 

Here are the polish and tools used for this kitty design:

 

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Polishes- OPI- Hello Kitty- Look at My Bow!, Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails - No hard feelings (optional color, that I used on my other hand), Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart, and OPI mini- Hawaii- Lost my bikini in Molokini. 

Acrylic paint- black and white

Nail art tools-  two thin detail brushes (one for paint, one for polish), extra large, large and regular size dotting tools.

Other- glass jar with polish remover to clean brushes, and a cup of water to clean off brushes with paint on them.

Let's start this kitty cat nail design, Meow!

    

CND Stickey base coat

Start off with a thin layer of base coat.

 

Kitty on the thumb nail

Kitty head on the thumb nail- 

Once you base coat has dried, we will start off with the kitty on the thumb nail. For this I found it is a little bit easier to draw the outline of the kitty's head with paint first then filling it in.

First with a thin detail brush draw a circle shape, then fill that in. Then make two triangles shapes for her ears. For the kitty's head I did go over it with a black nail polish to make sure the paint does not rub off. Even with top coat over the paint sometimes I find that the paint rubs off near the tip of the nail, that why I put polish over the paint.

On the side you can make a line that curves for her tail, or just have her head showing.

Once kitty's head has dried, you can add her face. With a large dotting tool with white polish make her eyes, then with a thin detail brush with white paint on it draw her nose, mouth and whiskers. For the nose you can go over that with a pink polish, for the eyes take a smaller dotting tool and put a black dot in the middle.

For an add touch you can add a paw print in the corner. With a large dotting tool make two dots that overlap and a small dot on top of those two dots, then make three dots on top for her paw.

  Kitty cat nail design

Ball of yarn on ring and middle finger nail-

For the rest of this design it will all connect together to have the kitty playing with a ball of yarn.  

On the ring finger nail start off by painting a small ball with white paint and make sure a small piece of string is sticking out of the ball.

On the middle finger nail paint a line with a loop in it for the string.

* For the next step you will need to let the paint dry, you can go to the kitty on the ring finger nail as that dries.

Once your outline for the ball of string has dried, take a purple polish and go over that white line. Then for the ball make a few lines that cross each other.  

Kitty on ring finger nail- 

On the ring finger nail we will make a kitty that is grabbing for the string. With a thin detail brush make a circle for the bottom of her body, then another circle for her head, fill in each part with that black paint. 

For her ears make two triangles on the top of her head, then fill those in. On the side of the kitties face make three lines on each for her whiskers. 

To finish the kitty make one paw that will be grabbing for the string that is on the middle finger nail. Then make a line on the other lower side for her tail, this will extend to the pinky finger nail.

Tail and paw print on the pinky finger nail-    

For the last part of this design we will make the tail and a paw print on the pinky nail.

Take a thin detail brush with black paint on it and make a thick black line for the kitties tail, try to make it line up with the kitty on the ring finger nail.

Then in the corner make a small paw print. Just like before, with a large dotting tool make two dots overlapping each other and a small dot on top of those two dots, then make three dots on top for her paw. 

 

 Kitty Nail Design with Pink Polish

Once your cute kitty design has dried apply a top coat to seal and protect your design.

 

   Kitty Design with Purple Polish on right hand

Don't really care for Pink? Here is another option, purple as the background color. I used a purple polish on my right hand and a pink polish on my left hand. For the kitty on the thumb nail I kept it simple by not adding facial features, and the string I used a pink polish. 

As always you can use what ever colors you would like, you can even change the color of the cat. These are just the two options that I created on my nails. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this cute kitty cat nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!