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!