Polar Bear and Penguin in the Snow Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we will be making a winter themed nail design, polar bear and penguin in the snow. It has kind of been a cold and snowy winter this year at least where I live and I know some other states have had a lot of snow, and even some states like Florida had snow which is crazy, anyways I thought to get rid of the winter blue we would create a cute polar bear and penguin nail design. 

Here are the polish and tools used to create this cute polar bear and penguin nail design: 

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

Polish- Finger Paints- Heavenly Hues, Sally Hansen- Insta Dri- Hershey's Kiss- Sun& Air& Kisses, LA Colors- Diamond Crush- Cloud 9, China Glaze- Chalk Me Up!, Holo Taco- Linear Holo Taco.

Acrylic Paint- Black, white, red, and yellow. Also mix red and white to make pink, and mix red and yellow to make orange. 

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

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

Apply a base coat to clean dry nails, let that dry.

Polish- 

Thumb Nail- a periwinkle blue (Finger Paints- Heavenly Hues)

Index and Pinky Nails- shimmery blue (Sally Hansen- Insta Dri- Hershey's Kiss- Sun& Air& Kisses)

Middle Nail- blue glitter (LA Colors- Diamond Crush- Cloud 9)

Let that dry.

Polar Bear in the Snow on the Thumb Nail-

We will first start off with the polar bear, take your thin detail brush with white paint on it make a circle near the tip of the nail and fill that in also make two small half circle for the ears on top of the head, then make a larger oval for the bears body fill that in as well, then make two small ovals for his feet. Lastly make to small circles near his face for his paws. You may need to go over this a few times to make sure everything is opaque. 

Let that dry, take your detail brush with black paint on it and make two black circles for the eyes, then a black oval for his noses.

For his mouth take a stripper brush make small line under his nose and then two curved lines under the small line to make a smile.

For his paws take your detail brush with your red and white paint to make pink, make a circle on the bears paws and then three dots above that. 

On his ears make to half circles with the pink paint.

Lastly make two small pink circles on his cheeks.

Penguin on the Ring Finger Nail-

Next we will be creating a penguin on the ring finger nail, take your detail brush with white paint on it, to make his head make a heart shaped then a oval for his body make both of these shapes connected to each other, then fill that in a few times to be opaque. 

For his body take a clean detail brush with black paint on it and kind of outline the white shape that you just made, just make sure that you make a triangle point on his head. Also on the side of his body make two fins.

For his eyes make two black circles. Then for his beak take your yellow and red paint to make an orange and make a small oval shape under his eyes. For the last detail on his face make two small pink circles on his checks. 

Lastly we need to make two little feet, take your detail brush with orange paint on it and make two small ovals where his feet go.

Snowflakes on the Index, Middle and Pinky Nails- 

On the index, middle and pinky finger nails we will make some snowflakes. On the index and middle finger nails make one large snowflake by first making an X shape with one line down the center of the X and then one on the side. On all of the lines make small lines for more of a snowflake look. 

For the smaller snowflakes near the cuticle make a smaller version of the lager snowflake that we just made, just don't add the small lines, these look more like stars. 

For the final touch take a small dotting tool with white paint on it and make a few dots on the nails for some small snowflakes. 

On the pinky nails we will just keep it simple with the star shape snowflakes and a few dots. 

  

A final touch for this design is to add a little sparkle to it with some holo, take a linear holo polish and polish over the whole nail on the index, middle and pink finger nails. On the nails that we created the polar bear and penguin just polish then linear holo on the background color.

Once your design is winter ready with your cute polar bear and penguin nail design apply a top coat to seal in your nails and to help them last.

Here is the practice version.

Hope all of you enjoyed this cute winter themed nail design.

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Blue Holo Gradient

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a good start to the new year. Today on the blog we will be staring off the new year with a more simple design a gradient design, yes I have done this kind of design before, I just love to sometimes just do a simple gradient design and I still wanted to share it with all of you even thought I have done quite a few gradients on this blog. 

On each hand I did do two different colored polishes, still a dark blue (the same dark blue) and then two different light blues. 

Here is the first version on my left hand which was my favorite.

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this blue gradient- 

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

Polishes- KB Shimmer- Plant One On Me Collection- Lilac It Or Not, Zoya Enchanted Collection- Saint, Zoya- Twinkling Collection- Jen, Holo Taco- Toppers- Flakie, and Holo Taco- Toppers- Scattered. 

Nail art tools- Makeup sponge for gradients, and Holo Taco Protective Peel Liquid Latex. 

First when it comes to gradient we need to polish all of our nails with our lights color. (KB Shimmer- Lilac It Or Not), then let that dry. 

Then for creating a gradient from lightest on the tip of the nails to darkest near the cuticle, first take make up sponge and polish your lightest blue polish (I used KB Shimmer- Lilac It Or Not) then polish your darkest blue color (I used Zoya Jen). Then with your lightest color on the tip of the nails, dab the sponge on the nails to make a gradient. 

You will need to do this step few time so your gradient will be opaque. I went over each nail twice. 

For an added holo touch, take a Flakie Holo topper and polish on the darkest part of your gradient and then a Scattered Holo topper right under that, but not all the way down the nail on the lightest part just a little on the lightest part. (you will be able to see this better on the other colors I did on my right hand.)

Now for the second version on my right hand.

For this color scheme we will still use the same dark blue Zoya Jen, this time the gradient will go from darkest on the tip of the nails to lightest near the cuticle. For the lightest color I used a more light periwinkle blue Zoya Saint. For the gradient follow the same steps as before just darkest on the tip and lightest near the cuticle. 

Then once again for the glitter take a Flakie Holo polish on the tip of the nails and polish it on the darkest part then, take scattered holo and polish that on the lightest part but just a little bit not all the way on the lightest part. 

Once you are all finished apply a top coat to seal in your design to help it to last.

Which on of these gradients is your favorite? My favorite is the first on on my left hand, the one I used KBShimmer Lilac It Or Not this gradient I feel has an ocean look to it, which in the summer time I might do again for a nice tropical design. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this gradient design!

See you next time for more nail fun!