No Socks and Flops- Beach Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating a flip flop/ beach nail design, I know I am a little behind on this design, seeing how we are at the end of summer, or according to stores and the media we are already in fall/ Halloween season. But oh well, I still want to create a beach and tropical designs, after this one I do have one more tropical design already done, I just have to do a post on it. This summer we have been doing kind of a lot and I have not had much time on the weekend/ during the week for nail art.

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this beach and flip flop nail design:

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

Polishes- Sally Hansen- Insta Dri- Peeps Blue and Glam Polish- Sandy toes anything goes- Beauty and the beach. 

Acrylic paint- Blue, white, red, yellow, greens, peach and brown.

Nail art brushes- Thin stripper and detail brush, and a flat brush.

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Apply a base to clean dry nails.

Let that dry.

Polish- 

Thumb, middle, and ring- light blue (Sally Hansen- Insta Dri- Peeps Blue) 

*This is your base color for the ocean/ beach design no the middle and ring finger nail, your water is all done with acrylic paint, but you still need nail polish as a base for the paint to stick to.*

Index and pinky nail- ocean blue with iridescent flakes (Glam Polish- Sandy toes anything goes)

Let that dry. 

Beach/ Ocean Design on the Middle and Index Nails:

For your beach you will need two shades of blue, a dark and a light blue. For the light blue, I just mixed the dark blue and white to make the light blue that I wanted.

Starting near the cuticle, leaving a small bit o space, take your flat brush with the dark blue paint and swim to across the nail, do the same with the light blue. You will need to do this a few time to be opaque, also make sure to blend the two colors together when you paint the nails.

For the sand just mix a peach with a very small amount of brown to make your sand.

For the final touch in the water, take a thin detail brush with a very small amount of white paint on it make a few random lines in the blue, then before it dries smudge the lines to make waves.

Flip Flops on the Thumb Nail:

For the flip flop on the thumb I mixed red and orange to make a reddish orange for the flops. For the green plants on the flops I mixed green and white for a lighter green. 

For the flip flop shape, you first will start with the base of the flip flop where your heel of the foot goes, by making a long oval shape, then for the area where the toes go make a circle, these two shapes connect to make your flop.

Repeat this step for your next flip flop, you can make them right next to each other like I did, or you can leave some space in-between them. 

For the part the flop that goes in between your toes make a thick V shape with white, then go over the white with orange, that way the orange will show.

Lastly for the final touches you can outline the flop with white and also add some green plants/ flowers to your flip flops. 

Once your nails are beach ready, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last though your last minute beach trips, unless you are lucky to leave somewhere where you can go to the beach year round.

Hope all of you enjoyed this beach nail design and that everyone is having/ had a nice summer.

As stated above I have one more tropical sunset nails design as summer is winding down. 

See you next time for more nail fun!

Golden Sandy Beach- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy Fourth of July to all that celebrate! Today we will not be creating a Fourth of July design, but a tropical design, which I love to do in the summer time. I love tropical anything in the summer time, really anytime. 

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

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

Polishes- Finger paints- Tiffany Imposter, Holo Taco- Hydropower- Electric Holo Collection, and Holo Taco- Gold Flakie- Anniversary.

Acrylic paint- Blue, white, yellow, green, and peach.

Nail art brushes- Thin stripper brush, flat brush, and fan brush.

Other- Water to clean off nail art brushes.

Apply a base coat.

Let that dry.

Polishes-

Thumb and pinky- aqua color holographic polish (Holo Taco- Hydropower)

Index, middle, and ring- a light blue cream polish (Finger paints- Tiffany Imposter), this is your base color for the nail art. You need a base color of nail polish if you are going to use acrylic paint for your nail art that way it has something to stick to, other wise it might not last as long.

Let that dry.

For the nail art we will be creating it on the index, middle and ring finger nails. 

Ocean water:

First we will start off with the water, you will need a dark blue, light blue and white for the water. If you don't have a light blue like me, take your dark blue and add white to make the light blue that you want. 

Starting near the cuticle, with you flat brush paint dark blue, light blue, and white. Then take your fan brush and swipe the three colors to blend them together.You will need to go over this a few times to be opaque, I did this three times.

To start your sand just paint a peach colored paint  on the tip of the nails. 

 Palm leaves- 

On the side of the index and ring finger we will make palm leaves.

First you will need a dark green and light green. If you don't have a light green mix yellow and green to make the light green that you want.

Starting off with the light green, take your stripper brush and make 4 curved lines from the side of the nail and then 1 small straight line at the top of the nail. 

For the palm leaves on each curved lines make very small close together lines. 

Once you have the light green lines done, for more detail take the dark green and make a few lines in over the light green lines. I did take a little bit of yellow as well but really that did not do much, so you can do that or not it is up to you. 

For the final touch take a gold glitter polish (Holo Taco- Gold Flakie) on a makeup sponge and dab that on the tip of the nails over the peach paint. You may need to do this a few times depending on the glitter you used.

Once you have your golden sandy beach design the way like, apply a top coat to seal in your design and help it to last during your topical vacation or if you are just dreaming of a tropical vacation like me. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical golden sand nail design and hope everyone is having a good summer.

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Happy Bloody Halloween- Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy Halloween! Well early Halloween. Anyone have any plans for halloween this year? Not me, the most I do is of course create a fun nail design and eat candy, that pretty much it. Anyways this year we will be kind of recreating a design that I created back in 2018, with a few of the nails having a fake blood splatter on them, and of course changing it up by adding a pumpkin on the thumb nail and a spider web on the pinky nail. 

Here are the polishes and tool used to create this spooky/ gross nail design:

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat, Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat, and - OPI- Matte Topcoat.

Polish- Holo Taco- Electrostatic- Electric Holo Collection, and Essie Coconut Cove.

Acrylic paint- red, black, yellow, white, and brown. (mixed red and yellow to make orange.) 

Nail art brushes- thin detail and stripper brush, and a medium flat brush.

Water to clean up your nail art brushes and the big mess you will make on your fingers. 

Apply a base to clean dry nails.

Let that dry.

Polish- 

Thumb and pinky- black holographic or creme polish 

Index, middle, and ring- an off white polish. 

Let that dry.

Fake Blood Splatter on the index, middle and ring finger nails:

Now time for the messy part!

*For this part use paint and not nail polish! Also wait to polish your other hand last, this step is very messy and your other hand will be all red at the end! Also make sure to have something down on your surface that you do your nails, I use a nail mat.*  

First we need to make our fake blood take a red paint and add the smallest amount of black to it, or until your red looks blood like. This time I added a little more black to make the red look darker, last time it was a little to bright red. 

Then water down your red paint/ fake blood, so it is very watery! this will make it easier to splatter. Take a flat brush and make sure your brush is soaked with the red paint/ fake blood, then with your other hand and one finger, flick your brush at your nail to make the blood splatter, your will need to do this step a few time to have the right amount of splatter.

Spider Web and Spider on the pinky nail: 

For the spider web make three long lines on the right hand corner of the cuticle. Then staring from the corner, make a curved line in each section.

For your little spider make a large circle and fill that in with white paint for the body. Then make three curved lines on each side of the circle for the legs. 

Pumpkin and Spider Web on the thumb nail:

* I always jump around from nail to nail when doing nail art that way you are not setting their waiting for each part to dry.*

On the thumb nail we will make the pumpkin first and then the spider web. First make a white oval, with a small square at the top, in the middle of the nail. Let that dry, then fill in the white oval with orange, you will need to do this a few time to be opaque. To add some light to the top of the pumpkin, add a little bit of yellow paint to the top. 

Let that dry. Then add a few curved liens to your pumpkin. Also fill in your stem/ small square at the top of your pumpkin with brown paint.

For the pumpkins face make two triangles, then fill that in with black paint, then make a curved line for his smile and and some squares for teeth, fill that in as well.

Once your nail are Halloween ready apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last through all of your trick or treats. Also on the nails that we did the blood splatter apply a matte top coat, after the gloss top coat has dried. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this Halloween nail design. I enjoyed creating a design similar to this a few years ago and just wanted to do a similar design again, with of course some differences. Even though this design is very messy!

Check out my last design that I created. things-are-going-to-get-messy-halloween

Hope all of you have a bloody good Halloween!

See you next time for more nail fun! 👻 🎃

Need A Vacation- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a good summer/ almost the end of summer, well according to the calendar. I can't believe how fast summer went now that it is the first day of September. Anyways we have another tropical nail design that we will be creating, I created this design some time ago and just didn't get a chance to type up a post. I do plain on creating one more tropical nail design even though it is now September, it most likely will still feel like summer for some time now, plus if you are feeling anyway like me then a tropical or any vacation is needed. 

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

Base and top coat-- CND Stickey Base Coat, Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat, and - OPI- Matte Topcoat. 

Polishes-  Holo Taco- Orange Drink- Rainbow Collection, Holo Taco- Hot - Wire Pink- Electric Holo Collection, and Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Hard to get. 

Acrylic Paint- Bright pink, black, red, blue, yellow, and white.

Nail art tools- thin detail and stripper brush, and a medium flat brush.

Other- makeup sponge for gradients, and water to clean off your nail art brushes. 

Apply a base coat, then let that dry.

Polish- 

Thumb, index, and pinky- an orange holographic polish, Holo Taco- Orange Drink.

Middle and ring finger nail- a white polish for your base polish. (you will not be seeing any of this polish once our design is done.) Also this design I applied a matte topcoat over the white polish to help the paint to blend better and it did work out much better.  

Let that dry. 

For this design it is very similar to the last design, and once again I will keep the explanation simple.

On both nails we will be making a gradient for the sky, starting near the cuticle with a bright pink paint, then an orange (I mixed yellow and red to make my orange) and then yellow, and for the water a light blue. You will need to go over this a few times, I went over it three times.

On your third pass over of the paint start to kind of blend the bright pink and orange and then the yellow, to make a gradient.

Also once your sky gradient has dried you can make yellow sun on the ring finger nail. First make a white circle and then fill that in with yellow, this help the yellow sun to stand out.

Once you have your sky completed, first make a black thick line in-between the sky and water for the land. Then make one large palm tree on the left hand corner of the middle finger nail.

On the ring finger nail make just the palm leaves pecking from the side of the nail. 

For the water, make a few white lines for the waves and then some dark blue ones right next to those. 

Lastly to complete your design on the thumb, index and pink finger nail we will create a gradient using an orange and a pink holo (even though it looks red). Staring with Holo Taco- Orange Drink, the orange holo and then on the tip of the nail Holo Taco- Hot - Wire Pink, 

pink holo that looks red. 

Once your nails are vacation ready, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical design and I do plain on doing one more tropical design before summer is official over.

See you next time for more nail fun!

Koala Bear Care- Koala Nail Design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is staying safe and try to stay healthy as well. I know that this year has started off not so well and the past few weeks have been scary, that's why I decided to hop on the blog and post a cute koala bear care nail design for all of you, just to kind of get you mind off of what is happening even just for a little bit.  

 

Koala Nail Design 

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

 

Base and top coat- as always, CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Nail polish- Zoya- Lillian.

Arcylic paint- White, black, green, yellow, and brown. 

Used black and white to make two shades of grey, and used a darker green and yellow to make a lighter green.

Nail art brushes- Thin detail brush and stripping brush.

A small cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes.

 

Koala Nail Design

Apply base coat.

Let that dry.

Polish all of your nails with a light blue polish.

Let that dry as well.  

First we will start off with the eucalyptus leaves that going on all four nails. Starting with the index nail and going to the middle and ring finger nail. Make a long branch across those three nails, then make some more smaller branches from the larger one. 

Then with two different greens, a light and a darker green, make some very small leaves coming from those smaller branches and some on the larger branch as well.

 

 Eucalyptus leaves

For the pink finger nail we will make four branches from all four coroners of the nail. On each corner make a long branch and then two shorter ones. Then make some leaves on each branch. 

 

Koala Nail Design

Lastly on to the Koala on the thumb nail. First make sure you have a lest two shades of grey, a light and darker grey. Then make a large circle for your koala's head, then two ears (use the lighter grey.) Then make his body, then with a darker shade of grey make two arms and two legs. 

With that same darker grey take your stripper brush and make your koala's ears look fuzzy, by making small lines very close to each other to make his ears fuzzy looking. 

Now on to the koala's face, make two oval for his eyes and a side ways oval for his nose and then two curved lines for his smile. 

For some for details, we will add some branches and leaves. Make a long thick line between your koala's arms and legs, then a thin line that is coming from his ear. Then add two leaves in his paws and then two more near the bottom the branch near the cuticle. Also add some leaves near his ear as well. 

 

Koala Nail Design

Once you have your koala bear nail design the way you like apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last.

 

 

 Practice Koala Nail Design

Hope all of you enjoined this koala design and take care of yourselves.

See you next time for more nail fun!

Full Moon- Night Sky Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog I have a night sky/ full moon design for all of you, I created this on my nails a few weeks ago and just now have gotten around to typing up a post, this design is suppose to go along with the Starry Night Sky design that I all ready created back in January. 

 

 Full Moon- Night Sky Nail Design

Here are the polishes and nail art tools use to create this night sky nail design:

 

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and  Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat. 

Nail Polishes- Zoya- Twinkling- Jen and Kiss nail art striper- Silver.

Arcylic paint- White and black to make grey. 

Nail art brushes- thin detail brush.

Other- Q- tips for clouds. 

  

 Full Moon- Night Sky Nail Design

 Apply your base coat, let that dry.

Polish all of your nails with a shimmery blue (I used Zoya Jen.)

Let that dry as well.

  Full Moon- Night Sky Nail Design

For the nail art first we will be creating clouds with a Q- tip/ cotton swab, this helps to make the clouds look fluffy. Take your Q- tip and dip it into just a little watered down white paint, then dab it on to the nail to make it look like clouds, do this on random parts of the nail (I tried to focus the clouds near the tip, sides and cuticles), and make sure to leave some blue showing for the night sky. 

For the stars take your sliver stripping polish, and just dab some dots on the nail for some smaller stars. Then add a few larger dots as well for some big stars, on the larger dots add two lines to add more detail. For the larger stars I just add a few on the nails, one on the middle finger nail and three on the thumb nail.

 

 

 Full Moon- Night Sky Nail Design

 

 Full Moon- Night Sky Nail Design

Lastly we will make the moon in the sky on the ring finger. First take your detail brush with white paint on it, make a circle kind of near the cuticle. Then take some grey paint and make a few lines on the moon a kind of blend them in with the white so they show up a little bit. 

  

 Full Moon- Night Sky Nail Design

Once your night sky is finished apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last. 

Also if you liked this design don't forget to check out  Starry Night Sky design as well. 

Hope all of you enjoined this full moon/ night sky nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!