Cookies for Rudolph- Christmas Nail Design

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Today on the blog we will be creating a shinny and cute nail design for the holidays, a gingerbread man and Rudolph because even Santa's reindeer need some cookies too, but who would want to eat this cute gingerbread?

Cookies for Rudolph

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

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

Polishes- Holo Taco- Birthstone- September- Playing With Sapphire, Holo Taco- Toppers- Rainbow Snow, and Holo Taco- Magnetic Magic Collection- Twice in a Blue Moon. 

Acrylic paint- Black, white, red, brown, and peach. 

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

Apply a top coat to clean dry nails, then let that dry.

Polish-

Thumb- a sapphire blue 

Index, middle, and pinky- a holographic glitter polish.

Ring finger nail- a shimmery blue.

Let that dry.

The index, middle and pinky finger nails will stay as is with no nail art on them.

Gingerbread Man on the Thumb Nail:

First we will start off with the gingerbread man, usually with this kind of design I jump back and forth between the two to let layers dry, when I am actually paint the designs, for explaining purposes I will just explain it all in two parts, not back and fourth like when you paint the design. 

Take a thin detail brush with brown paint on it, make a large circle near the tip of the nail and fill that in. Then make two arms, for his body and legs make a upside down heart shape, then fill in your gingerbread man with brown paint, you will need to go over the a few times to be opaque.

Once your gingerbread man shape has dried, take a dotting tool with black paint on it and make two dots for his eyes.

For his smile take a striper brush with black paint and make a curved line under his eyes. With that same clean brush, just use white paint make a few squiggly line on his arms and legs.

For the last final touches we will add a bow tie and some buttons. To make his small bow tie, take a thin detail brush with red paint on it, make a small oval, then make two symmetrical round loops on each side for the rest of the bow.

Lastly take your dotting tool with white paint on it, make two dots on his tummy for the buttons

He turned out so cute! 🥰

Also if you would like you can add some snow in the background, take the same holo glitter polish that you used on the index, middle and pinky nail on a dotting tool and dot some snow on random spots on the nails. 

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer on the Ring Finger Nail:

To complete this design we will be crate Rudolph on the ring finger nail. Take a small detail brush with brown paint on it and make a lager circle for his head near the cuticle. Then make a large oval for his body, two little arms and then two ovals for his feet, also make two small circles on top of his head for his ears. Once you have the shape fill that in with the brown paint, you will need to go over this a few times to be opaque.

For this face make a peach colored oval near the bottom of the head and kind of near the tummy, fill this in.

On his tummy make a heart shape with the same peach color, then lastly with the peach color make two small circles in his ears. 

For his facial features take your dotting tool with black paint on it and make two black dots for his eyes. For his noses make an oval in the middle of the peach oval.

On his hands fill in the tip of the hands with black and the feet make two small ovals.

For the final touch Rudolph's antlers, take your thin striper brush with black paint on it, on top of his head make two lines, with two smaller lines at the top coming out from the sides. 

Just including this to show the glow that holo glitter can have! 

Once your nails are Christmas ready apply a top coat to add even more shine and to help them last through all of your cookie eating. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this Christmas nail design, I really like how the gingerbread came out, he is so adorable and the Rudolph also looks cute too. 

Here is the practice version

Hope all of you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays! 

See you next time for more nail fun!