Munchkin’s Magnificent Manis: I Choose You Pikachu- Pikachu Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be doing something just a little bit different, in celebration of the new movie, Detective Pikachu that came out today, May 10. I will be showing you a recreation of the Pikachu design that I did back in 2015, this will not be a step by step tutorial because this design is very similar to the one I created in 2015, but I will still add a link to that design if any of you would like to create it.

Pikachu Nail Design 2015 and 2019

As all of you may have guessed I am a big Pokemon/ Pikachu fan and I super excited to see the new Detective Pikachu Movie! I have been a fan ever since Pokemon came to the USA in the 90's and Pikachu has always been my favorite. So I thought I would give the Pikachu design another try jut in time for the movie.

As you can see from the photo above I did make a little bit of a change, on the thumb nail I add a teal background, I put Pikachu near the cuticle, and I painted Pikcahu with acrylic paint instead of polish like I did on the first design.

Pokémon Pikachu Nail Design 2015 and 2019

Then on the ring finger nail I made the Poke Ball/ a circle that did not covering up the whole nail on the same teal background. As for the other nails I decided to keep them the same, with the Poke Ball on the entire nail.

Pokémon Pikachu Nail Design 2015

With anything I feel that with time you can improve, looking back at the design I did back in 2015, I feel like I did better this time around, I mean the design I did back in 2015 when I first started this blog was still good, but I can tell that I have improved. The main thing I noticed is the cuticle area looks better now.

Pokémon Pikachu Nail Design 2019

Even the redo design that I did, I would still not mind recreating/ changing up this design again just to see if I can do better. On the design I created now, I did make the center parts of the Poke Balls a little big. Also what you can't see in the photo is I actually had to redo Pikachu on thumb because I messed up, but after waiting a while and trying again he came out really good.

Pikachu Design on thumb nail

For this design I really wanted to recreate this design for the movie and just to see how I could improve on the design that I did back in 2015. Also along with the design it's self I feel like I have also improve on the photo as well. I do use a pro camera, well starter camera the Canon EOS Rebel T3 (this is a older camera, but still good), at first back in 2015 I took my photos next to a window, which is not always reliable, now I used a day time photography like bulb. I take my photos both then and now, in front of a box that I have covered with white paper or now sometimes a black piece of fabric. My set up is not fancy at all it is very basic, but I try to make my photos look like they are not just taken with a cellphone camera.