Woof Woof- Puppy Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today's design was a design that I actually had on my nails last week and wanted to do a post last week, but I was not feeling up to doing one, I was feeling sleepy and my nose was acting weird (not sure if it has been my allergies or what.) Anyways If you like cute animals, then you will really enjoy this weeks post, we will be a creating a cute puppy on our nails.

 

Puppy Dog Nail Design  

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

 

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

Polishes-  OPI- Hello Kitty- My Pal Joey, Finger paints- Tiffany imposter, and Nicole by OPI- That's Just Plain Nuts!

Acrylic paint- black and white.

Nail art tools- large dotting tool and a thin detail brush.

Other- a small glass jar or cup with water in it to clean off your nail art brush.

Let's start this cute puppy nail design, woof woof!

 

 Puppy design on the thumb nail

As always start off by polishing all of your nails with a base coat, my fav is CND Stickey Base, this will help your polish to last longer.  

Once your base coat has dried polish your thumb, middle and pinky finger nail with a light blue polish (I used Finger paints- Tiffany imposter), then on your index and ring finger nail polish that with a darker blue (I used OPI- Hello Kitty- My Pal Joey.)

Once your base colors has dried, we will first make are cute puppy on our thumb nail. Start off by take a brown polish, and with the brush that is already in the bottle make a circle shape in the middle of your thumb nail, by first making a curved line near the tip of the nail, then another one under that, then fill in the circle.

* Let this part dry, and you can go onto another part of the design on the other nails, but for this tutorial we will go on to the next part of the puppy.*

Once your puppies face/ the brown circle has dried we will make his ears. With a small detail brush with black paint on it, make two floppy ear shapes on both sides of the head.

For his eyes take a large dotting tool with black paint and dot two eyes in the middle of his face.

For his nose you can use a dotting tool or just a thin brush, I used a thin brush to make a oval shape for his nose. Under his nose make a curved line and two small lines at each end for his cute little smile. 

For his little paws, just make two ovals under his face. 

Back to his eyes, take a small detail brush with white paint on it and make a small dot in the middle of the two large black dots. 

Now your cute little puppy is done!    

 Puppy Nail Design 

Now that we have our cute puppy we will add more to this design with some paw prints, a bone and the word woof.

First we will make a paw print on the index nail. Just take a small detail brush with black paint on it and make a large circle and then with a dotting tool, dot three dots on top of the larger dot for a paw print.

On the pinky finger nail this is basically the same thing, so we will jump to that nail. Take your large dotting tool with black paint on it and make a few dots around the nail (I made 4 dots) then above those dots, make three smaller dots with your smaller end of the dotting tool.  

Back to or on to the next nail the middle finger nail to make your puppy a bone. Take your large dotting tools with white paint on it and make two large dots right next to each other, near the tip of the nail, then a little ways done the nail do the same thing. Then with a thin brush with white paint on it make a line going down the middle to make a bone.

Lastly we will paint the word woof on our ring finger nail. This part can be tricky you just have to keep your hand on a flat surface and try to keep you hand steady. With a thin detail brush with white paint on it going down your nail paint the word woof.

 

 Puppy Nail Design 

Once you have your puppy nail design the way you like, apply a top coat to seal in your design, to protect your nails and to help your design to last. 

When I had this design on my nails I had many people as me if I have a dog, no I do not but My hubby and I would like to have a puppy one day. I just thought this was a very cute design to do on my nails and to show all of you how this design was done. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this cute puppy nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Under the Sea- Mermaid Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating a fun design that would probably better for summer, but Halloween is coming up so maybe all of you could create this on your nails for Halloween. Anyways we will be create a mermaid inspired nail design, mermaids and unicorns have been a big thing this year, it seems like they are on everything, so I thought it would be cool to make mermaid scales on our nails.   

 

 Mermaid Nail Design

Here are the nail polishes and tools used for this mermaid nail design-  

 

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

Nail polishes- Sinful Color- Gorgeous, Sally Hansen- Triple Shine- Make Waves (optional not needed, all you need really is one of these types of polishes), Revlon- blue mosaic,Color Club Halo's- Harp on, and KBShimmer- Blue- d Lines.

Acrylic paint- black and white.

Nail art brushes- small detail brush, very small thin detail brush.

Other- Small cup or glass jar with water in it to clean off nail art brushes.

Let's start this under water adventure to find a mermaid or even two. 

  

        Mermaid Nail Design

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

Once that has dried, on your thumb, index and pinky finger nail polish those nails with a shimmery blue/green polish (I used Sinful Colors- Gorgeous and for some reason to be extra I used Sally Hansen- Triple Shine- Make Waves, but really you only need one polish.)

For the mermaid scales on the middle and ring finger nail, polish the middle finger nail with a silver holographic polish, and then the ring finger nail with a blue holographic polish. I feel like using holo polish for the scales would be the best!

Once your base colors have dried we will make the scales. I did hand paint these on my nails which is much harder, but their is another option, their is mermaid scale nail vinyls that will make this design much easier. But today we will be creating this by hand. 

For the scales with a very thin nail art brush dipped into black paint, starting near the cuticle  make three upside down U's, then under that making sure that the next line of U's don't line up, and make another line of U's. Do this all the way down the nail. You can make the scales small (like I did) or big it is up to you.        

 

   Mermaid Nail Design, with Seashell

Next we will create the seashell on the thumb nail. With a thin detail brush with white paint on it, first make a small rectangle near the cuticle area, then for the shell details make some long U shapes going in a circle for the shell shape. 

Once that has dried take your silver holo polish and fill in the shell, you can use the the brush that is in the bottle, you don't really need to use a nail art brush for this. Also you may need to go over the shell two times to be opaque. Also the outline you just made you most likely will have to go over that again because you cover it up when you filled in the shell with the silver holo polish. 

 

 Mermaid Nail Design

For the final touch on the index and pinky nails we will just polish a mermaid looking glitter polish, that has small and large blue glitter, and large silver and green glitter in it.  

Also on the thumb nail with the seashell, add a little of the same glitter around the shell as part of the background.  

  Mermaid Nail Design

Once your mermaid nail design has dried apply a top coat to seal/ protect your design.

Hope all of you enjoyed this fun mermaid nail design that you can wear just for fun or for a upcoming Halloween party, coming up toward the end of this month.

See you next time for more nail fun!