Saturday, February 1, 2025

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. 

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. 

Polar Bear and Penguin Nail Design

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 and Penguin Nail Design

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.

Polar Bear and Penguin Nail Design

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.

Polar Bear and Penguin Nail Design

Polar Bear and Penguin Nail Design

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. 

  
Polar Bear and Penguin Nail Design

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!