Unicorn Frap- Water Marble Nail Design

Hello everyone! This week on the M.M.M blog we will be creating a unicorn frap nail design, I am a little late on the whole unicorn frap craze that was around because of a certain coffee company. But I had been seeing some people creating a cool looking nail design inspired by this popular drink, so I figured why not give it a try anyways (I didn't get a chance to try the drink when it was out though.)

 

 Unicorn Frap, Water Marble Nail Design

This nail design has been done a few different ways, but the best way that it seem to work out for me is by water marbling. 

Here are the nail polishes and nail art tool used to create this mythical nail design.

 

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

Nail polishes- Glam Polish Experiment 626- Stitch to the Rescue, OPI- La Paz-itively Hot, OPI- Hello Kitty- My Pal Joey, Julep- Hazel- Boho glam, Essie- Coconut Cove, and Color Club- Mini- Blue Purple glitter.  

Nail art tools- a stylus or tool for marbling and a makeup sponge.

Other (Not show in the photo above)- two plastic cups with room temp water in it ( I recommend two cups just in case your water starts to get to messy), toothpicks (if you don't have the stylus, even if you do I recommend toothpicks!), tape to tape around your fingers, or Liquid Latex, and some paper tower this design is Messy!

Let's start this mythical unicorn water marble nail design!  

  

 

 Unicorn Frap, Water Marble Nail Design

First off start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails and too help your polish last a little longer. 

Then once your base coat has dried, polish your thumb, middle, and ring finger with a bright hot pink polish. We will only be doing the water marbling on those fingers, you can always do this design on all the nails, I just wanted to do the water marble on three finger nails. 

If you want to only do the water marble on the three nails, you can polish your index and pinky with a bright blue with white, bright pink and holo glitter in it, I found that the polish from the Glam Polish Experiment 626 collection Stitch to the Rescue, went perfect with this design. 

Once the bright pink polish has dried on your thumb, middle and ring finger nails we will start the water marbling. This process is messy so it is best to put tape around your finger, near the cuticles and the sides of the nail, or even better you can use liquid latex to put  around your finger for an easier cleanup. I still don't have any liquid latex, so I used tape.  

Then take your bright pink polish (the same one you used for your base color), a purple and a blue polish and open all of the bottles, so you have them ready to go, you do need to work kind of fast for this design.    

Take the bright pink and make sure the polish brush is loaded with polish, so you can drip the polish into the water. Do the same with the purple and blue, in the end you should have a bulls-eye design in your cup. 

Then with your stylus or toothpick start to drag the toothpick in the water to create a marble design. Then quickly dip your finger into the part of the water that you like design.

Then take another toothpick and remove the rest of the polish around your finger. Then take your finger out of the water. Then remove the tape or liquid latex around your fingers, as you go on each finger that you are going to marble.

Once your marble design has dried we will add some whip cream on top or on the tip of the nails. Take a small piece of makeup sponge and polish some white polish on it, then dab the sponge onto the tip of the nail, kind of like a french manicure but it does not need to be perfect.

Then once that has dried we will add the sprinkles or sugar (not sure what is on top of the drink?) Just take a blue and purple glitter polish and polish that over the white polish.   

 

Unicorn Frap, Water Marble Nail Design

Once your unicorn frap water marble nail design has dried apply a top coat to seal in your nail design. 

Water marbling can be both easy and hard, the concept seem easy but some times your water marble still does not come out the way you want, it just takes practice, the right temperature for your water and the right nail polishes. Also here is a link to the first water marble that I did back in 2015 Lets try water marbling, where I show step by step photos. I definitely feel like this time around that the water marble turned out much better. Also their are a lot of YouTube videos out their on how to do water marbling as well.

Hope all of you enjoyed this unicorn frap, water marble nail design, even if you did or didn't care for the drink, I still think this design turned out pretty cool!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Spring Fling- Butterfly & Swirls Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the M.M.M blog we will be keeping it simple with a butterfly and swirls nail design. This design only requires one polish, black acrylic paint, one brush and a dotting tool.

  

Butterfly and Swirls Nail Design

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used for this design:

 

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

Polish- Pretty& Polished- Sea Spray.

Acrylic paint- Black

Nail Art tools- a small dotting tool and a thin liner brush.

Other- a glass or cup of water to clean your nail art brushes with.

Let's start this butterfly swirl nail design!

  

 

Butterfly and Swirls Nail Design

As always start off with a thin layer of base coat so your polish will stick to your nails, along with protecting them. 

Once your base coat has dried polish all of your nails with a blue holographic or glitter polish, or you can use any color polish that you would like.    

Then once our base color has dried we will start to create our design, the fun part about this design is you can be very random with it because this design really just has a lot of swirls with dots on it. 

For all of the nails we will just be using a thin liner brush with black acrylic paint on it. For the design that I did near the cuticles I made swirls that are connected to each other, then a few random one swirls in other spots on the nail. You can fill up the nail as much as you would like with swirls, just make sure to leave some blank space as well.

Also once you have the swirls, you can add some small dots along side of the swirls or one dot near the swirl.

 

 

 Butterfly and Swirls Nail Design

For something a little bit extra I decided to create a butterfly a long with some swirls on just the thumb and ring finger nail.

For the butterfly start off with a long curved line, with two small swirls near the bottom, then on top of the line make two wing shapes, under that make two smaller wing shapes, for the butterfly shape.

On top of the two larger wings make two curved lines for the butterfly's antenna.

On the butterfly you can add a few small dots on the wings as well. Then on the long curved line you can add some more small dots going up the curved line. 

 

Practice version

Above is the practice version that I created, for the most part I tried to do the final design like this, the butterfly was just a little different for the practice and the final version.    

 Butterfly and Swirls Nail Design

Once your pretty butterfly and swirls nail design has dried apply a top coat to seal in your design. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this some what simple nail design. With this design you can always change the colors, you could even do this design with white paint or whatever color you would like. 

See you next time for more nail fun!