What about Thanksgiving?- Thanksgiving Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy Thanksgiving! Today on the blog we will be creating a design for a holiday that does not get much love, Thanksgiving. I feel like a few years ago or more (time is going so fast!) that first their is Halloween (kind of) then right to Christmas, but what about poor Thanksgiving? So this year to show Thanksgiving some love, I wanted to create a Thanksgiving nail design. I have done one before, but it has been some years, so I thought it was time for an update.

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

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

Polish- OPI Hawaii- Do you take Lei away, OPI Lisbon- Now Museum Now You Don't, and Wet n wild- Glitter orange.

Acrylic- black, red, green, yellow, white, brown, and peach.

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

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

Apply a base coat.

Let that dry.

Polish- 

Thumb and ring finger nail- a peach/ tan polish (OPI Do you take Lei away)

Index nail- orange glitter (Wet n wild- Glitter orange)

Middle and pinky nail- a brick red/ red-orange (OPI Now Museum Now You Don't)

Let that dry.

For this design we will just be doing nail art on the thumb and ring finger nail. The other nails leave them as is with the red and orange.

Pumpkin on the ring finger nail: 

Starting with the pumpkin, make an oval shape, with your detail brush dipped in orange paint, near the tip of the nail on the left side, then fill that in a few times with the orange paint. 

On the top of your pumpkin make a small square with brown paint for the steam.

Then with that same brown make some curved lines on your pumpkin.

Lastly take your thin stripper brush with green paint on it, and make some swirl lines for the vines, and a few green leaves on the pumpkin and on the sides of the nail.

Turkey on the thumb nail:

To finish this design we will make a turkey on the thumb. First take your detail brush with brown paint on it, make a medium size circle in the middle of the nail, then make an oval shape for the body and two longer ovals for the arms. You will need to go over this a few time to be opaque. 

For the turkey's feather's starting at the top of his head make a half oval (the colors I used was red, orange, and yellow.) Do this all the way around the head stopping at the shoulders. 

An optional step is to outline your turkey with a peach paint. 

For his face, we will make his eyes, with a large dotting tool with white paint on it, dot two eyes in the center of the face. Then when that is dry make to small black dots in the large white dots.

Lastly we need to make his beak, take your detail brush with orange on it and make an upside down triangle and then fill that in with the orange. Also add a red curves line on the side of the beak. 

 

Once your nails are Thanksgiving day ready, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last though all of the yummy food. 

What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? My fav's are pumpkin pie, ham and Mac and cheese made by My Mom In Law. 

Hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Fall Glitter Gradient

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating another glitter gradient, for the fall. For this gradient we will be using a Holo Taco's Zyler the cat. I remember in one of Simply Nailogical's video's, Cristine had said that Zyler's polish doesn't get much love, so I wanted to show this polish some love by creating a glitter gradient with it. Also this orange glitter polish is perfect for a fall glitter gradient or a Halloween design even though Halloween is over with. 

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this fall glitter gradient:

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

Polishes- Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart and Holo Taco- Zyler the cat.

Nail art tools- Just a makeup sponge. 

Apply a base coat to clean dry nails. 

Let that dry.

Polish- 

Thumb, index, middle, and pinky- a black creme polish.

Ring finger- Orange glitter polish (Holo Taco- Zyler the cat) 

Let that dry.

Once your base polish has dried. Take your orange glitter polish and polish a very thin layer on the tip of your nails, focusing most of the polish on the tip of the nail and a little going up the nail.

Do this on all the nails except the ring finger nail, unless you decided to create this gradient on all the nails.

Now take a makeup sponge and polish some of the orange glitter polish on the sponge, then dab the sponge on to just the tip of the nails.

Do this on all of the nails again.

For this polish I did take the polish brush and went over the glitter part one more time, just to add a little more in the middle of the nails, that way it looks like a gradient. 

Now that your fall glitter gradient is done apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last. 

There you go a simple and fun fall nail design, that you can create anytime of the year or just change up the colors of glitters. I have done quite a few glitter gradients on this blog and they are always a fun and simple way to jazz up your nails.  

Hope all of you are enjoying the fall season here in the US. Also hope you enjoy this fall glitter nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!