Munchkin’s Magnificent Manis: The Polar Bear Vortex- Polar Bear Nail Design

Hello everyone! This past week, at least where I live has been supper cold, in the teens and in the negatives, and even now it is still very cold. So I thought it would be cool to make a cute polar bear nail design to help us all get through this cold weather/ polar vortex.

Polar Bear Nail Design

Here are the polish and tools used to create this cute polar bear design:

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

Polishes- Colors by llarowe- Arturo and Color Club- Halo's- Crystal Baller.

Acrylic paint- black, white, and red.

Nail art brushes/ tools- medium or large dotting tool, thin detail brush, thin stripper brush, and a very small detail brush.

A small cup of water to clean off your brushes.

What is the best way that you keep warm in the winter? with a fuzzy blanket, a nice cup of tea, coffee, or hot chocolate?

Polar Bear Nail Design

Start off with clean nails, with no polish on them, and apply a thin layer of base coat to all of your nails.

Let that dry.

Polish all of your nails with a light blue polish/ a light holographic blue polish.

Let that dry.

Then on to the nail art, we will first start off with the easy part the snowflakes on the index, middle and pinky finger nail. For the larger snowflakes we will just make a simple star shape, an X with a few lines going through it, on each nail you can do a different amount. After that take a larger dotting tool with a little bit darker holographic polish on it and make random dots around the nail, this is for the smaller snowflakes.

Polar Bear Nail Design

Next we will make a the polar bear that is kind of peeking out from the tip of the nail on the ring finger nail. Take a thin detail brush with white paint on it and make a large circle near the tip of the nail, and then two smaller circles at the top of the head for his ears. You will have to go over this a few times to be opaque. Then take a large dotting tool with black paint on it and make two dots for his eyes and then with your detail brush make a small oval shape for his nose right under his eyes.

Also on this nail I did add some dots above the bear for some snowflakes.

Polar Bear Nail Design

Last by not least is the polar bear him self on the thumb nail. Take a small detail brush with white paint on it and make a circle near the tip of the nail for his head, then make another circle that is attached to his head for his body, fill in both of those. Then make two small arms and two circles for his feet, for the small detail on his paws, just make two lines on each paw and for his feet make a small circle and three little dots above that.

For his face take your dotting tool with black paint on it, and make two circles for his eyes an then make an oval for his nose, and right under that draw a small line and two curved lines for his smile. For his ears make two half circles with black paint on the white part of his ears.

To finish your little polar bear, we will add a scarf. Take that same detail brush with red paint on it and make a thick line around his neck and then two lines coming down from that line.