Snowflakes- Snowflake Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we will be creating a winter snowflake themed nail design. In the last posted where we created a snowman on our nails, I had said that the weather where I live has been kind of on the mild side/ kind of warm for winter. Well last week winter weather hit us and it was in the single digits and the teens with snow. Anyway that's why I thought it would be fitting to create a pretty snowflake nail design, plus I just felt like creating another snowflake design. 😀

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

Top and base coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and CND Super Shiney Top Coat. 

Polishes- Holo Taco- Twice in a Blue Moon- Magnetic Magic Collection, Sally Hansen- xtreme wear-Celeb city, Holo Taco- Flakie, Holo Taco- World's First- Chorme Collection, Kiss nail art striper- Silver. 

Nail art tools- Thin stripper brush, small dotting tool, and a makeup sponge. 

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes. 

Apply a top coat, let that dry.

Polishes- 

Thumb, index, middle, and pinky finger nails- shimmery blue (Holo Taco- Twice in a Blue Moon)

Ring finger nail- Silver (Sally Hansen- xtreme wear-Celeb city)

Let that dry.

We will first start off with the thumb nail. On the thumb we will first make a glitter gradient (this is done only on the thumb nail) take a glitter polish and first polish some mainly on the tip of the nail, then take a makeup sponge with that same glitter polish on it and dab that on the tip of the nail mainly focusing on the tip of the nail, making the glitter look like it is fading up the nail.

Let that dry. 

Take a nail art polish or a silver polish on a thin brush and make two curved lines on the side of the nail right next to each other. 

Lastly we will make a large snowflake on the lower right hand corner. Take a thin stripper brush with sliver metallic polish on it and make a cross shape then make two lines on each side of the cross shape, then make two very small lines on every large line to complete your snowflake.  

We will now go on to creating the next design part on the index and middle finger nails. Starting with the index nail take your silver nail art polish and make four line from the left side of the nail. 

Then make a more simple version of the snowflake that we just made on the thumb nail, on the upper right hand corner/ near the cuticle. Then near the tip of the nail make a star shape snowflake. 

For the final touch take a dotting tool with silver metallic polish on it and make a few dots in some of the empty space on the nail.

On to the middle finger nail, take your nail art polish and make a few lines across the nail. 

Then make two snowflakes one near the cuticle again and one near the tip of the nail that is a simple star shape snowflake. 

Then finish off the nail with a few silver dots.

Lastly we will finish this nail design with the pinky nail. Once again take your nail art polish and make a few lines from the side of the nail.

On this nail because it is the smallest nail we will just make one snowflake near the tip of the nail.

Then once again make a few silver dots on the empty space around the nail. 

Once your nails are ready for the snow, apply a top coat to seal in your nail and to help it to last. 

Here is the practice version of this snowflake design 

Hope all of you enjoyed creating this snowflake nail design, and try to keep warm this winter if you live some where it is cold. 

See you next time for more nail fun!

Let's Build A Snowman- Winter Snowman Nail Design

 Hello everyone! Happy New Year 2024! Hope everyone had a safe and happy new year's eve. We just did are usual celebration of ordering pizza and watching the ball drop at midnight. Anyways today we will be creating a winter snowman design, I did create this design be for Christmas and I didn't get a chance to post it, But I still think it is ok to share. 

Here are the polish and nail art tools used to create this snowman nail design:

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and CND Super Shiney Top Coat. 

Polishes- China Glaze- Chalk Me Up!, Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Hard to get, Snowman rainbow glitter- frosty, and Holo Taco- Scattered.

Acrylic paint- White, black, red, yellow, green and brown.

Brushes- Detail brush.

Other- Makeup sponge and water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Apply a top coat to clean dry nails.

Polish all of the nails with a light blue creme polish. 

Let that dry.

Snow on the tips of the Nails: 

On all five nails take a makeup sponge with white nail polish on it and dab it on the tips of all of the nail, it does not need to look perfect you can have some of the white polish not line up as you can see that I did in the photo above. 

On the middle and pinky finger nails you can leave as is for now. We will only be creating nail art on the index, ring and thumb nails.

Trees on the Index and Ring Finger Nails: 

On the index nail we will make a tree on the left side of the nail, on the ring finger nail we will make a tree on the right side of the nail. 

This is a very simple tree, just take a detail brush with green paint on it and make a triangle a then four triangle shapes on each side to make a simple triangle shape. 

Then with brown paint make a small tree trunk. 

Also as I stated above I made this before Christmas so I did add some glitter in kind of a zig zag patten on the tree. If you don't want to make this design look Christmas like then you don't have to add this.

Snowman on the Thumb Nail: 

Lastly we will make the snowman on the left side of the nail, making sure to leave some room on the left side of the nail, make sure to make your snowman as close to the side of the nail.

Take a detail brush with white paint on it make two large circle, for your snowman body, that are stacked on top of each other, then fill them in. 

Next we will make his hat, take that same brush with black paint on it make a thick line on top of the head for the rim of his hat and then make a square shape for his hat. 

For the band on his hat, I first made a line with white and then went over that with red. 

Jumping to his scarf make a red line around his neck and then two lines come down to complete his scarf. 

Back to his face, You can use a dotting tool for this or just make two circle of the snowman's eyes. For his carrot nose I had to mix red and yellow to make an orange, then make a very small triangle for his nose. Then for his little smile make small dots in a curve shape to make his smile. Then on body make two small dots for buttons.

For our final touch on our snowman, take that same detail brush with brown paint on it and make one line on each side of the snowman with two small lines for his arms. 

For our last touch we will add a scattered holographic topper on the light blue part of our nails for a subtle snow fall look on the nails. Once your nails are ready to build a snowman apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last. 

Here is the practice version that I create. 

Hope all of you have a safe and Happy New Year! Also have a nice winter, lucky where I live so far it has been kind of warm for winter, very little snow and it was in the 50's on Christmas when a lot of times it is in the 20's or teens. Which I am ok with that it has been mild this winter so far. 

See you next time for more nail fun!