Munchkin’s Magnificent Manis: Penguin March- Penguin Winter Nail Design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a good winter/ almost Christmas (if you celebrate the Holiday.) Anyways today on the blog we will be creating a cute winter themed nail design, a penguin/ snowflake nail design.

Penguin Winter Nail Design

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this cute design:

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

Polishes- Colors by llarowe- Arturo and OPI Holiday 2017- Ornament to Be Together.

Acrylic paint- white, black, red, yellow (make orange and pink by mixing colors.)

Nail art tools- thin detail brush, stripper brush, and medium dotting tool.

Small cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Penguin Winter Nail Design

Apply your base coat.

Let that dry.

Polishes-

Thumb, index, middle, pinky- a light holo blue polish (I used Colors by llarowe- Arturo)

Ring finger- a silver polish with a little bit of holo in it. (I used OPI Ornament to Be Together)

Let that dry.

Penguin Winter Nail Design

First we will start off with the penguin, also for this post I will just be going over how to create the penguin not the snowflakes because I have done quite a few post on how to do snowflake designs, plus the snowflakes are on only one nail.

Penguin Design:

Take your thin detail brush with white paint on it, make a circle kind of near the tip of the nail, then fill that in. Then outline the head, making that outline thick.

Then near the top of the penguin's head make two arches, then when you go down the middle of the two arches (the thick line in the middle of his face) make that line very thick.

Also make three lines at the top of his head for his hair.

For the penguin's body make kind of a half oval shape (not really sure what kind of shape to even call this?) then fill that in. Once again outline that with black.

Then on each side make his flippers.

Now back to the penguin's face. Take your dotting tool with black paint on it and make two eyes, then two white dots once that is dry.

Then for his beak make an oval shape with orange paint (I mixed yellow and red), then when that is dry make a line in between the oval.

For the final touch on your penguin's face make to pink circle's on his cheeks. (I mixed white and red to make a pink.)

Then for the final touch on your penguin, I decided to put a surf around his neck. You can do this by taking your detail brush with red paint on it and make a thick red line around his neck and then two more lines coming down from that.

Now your penguin is done.

Penguin Winter Nail Design

For this design I wanted the main focus to be the penguin, and I always like to do the main design on the thumb nail because their is more room on that nail. So for this design I only did the snowflakes on the ring finger nail.

For the snowflakes make a large snowflake near the tip of then nail on the left side. Then half a snowflake near the bottom of that snowflake. Then make small dots along the top of the two snowflakes.

For this design you can always add more snowflakes on the other nails or just keep the nails light blue, it is up to you.

Here are some extra photos of the snowflake part of this design, I liked how these turned out so I wanted to share them.