Christmas Eve- Christmas Nail Design

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas Eve! Today on the eve of Christmas, we will be creating a cute glitter filled nail design. Each nail will have a different design on it, that you can also do on each nail or just put on on a accent nail.

 Christmas Nail Design  

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

Yes I used way to many polishes, but most of the glitters are just for the Christmas lights, so very little is used, and of course you don't have to use that many glitters for the lights, I just choose to do so. 

 

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

Acrylic paint- black, white, red, and brown, and mixing red and white for pink.

Nail art brushes and dotting tools- thin detail and stripper brush, and a medium size dotting tool.

Optional, for glitter placement- a toothpick.  

Nail polishes- 

Your base polishes are-

China Glaze mini- Sesame Street- 50 Shimmering Years, China glaze mini- Grinch- Deliciously Wicked, Zoya- Twinkling- Alessia, China glaze mini- Grinch- Merry Whatever, Sally Hansen- xtreme wear-Celeb city, and China Glaze mini- Sesame Street- T is for Tinsel (over top of Celeb city).

Polishes for the Christmas lights- 

China glaze mini- Grinch- Resting Grinch Face, China Glaze mini- Sesame Street- #This is my Street, China Glaze mini- Sesame Street- Cele- Bert, China Glaze mini- Sesame Street- On the nice list, China Glaze mini- Sesame Street- A Grouchy New Year, and China Glaze mini- Sesame Street- Gift Fur You.

  

 Christmas Nail Design  

Apply a base coat, let that dry.

Polishes on each finger-

Thumb- Rose gold glitter polish, China Glaze- 50 Shimmering Years.

Index- Light shimmer blue glitter, China glaze- Deliciously Wicked

Middle- shimmery blue, Zoya- Twinkling- Alessia

Ring- Gold glitter polish, China glaze- Merry Whatever

Pinky- Sliver- Sally Hansen- xtreme wear-Celeb city, China Glaze- T is for Tinsel (over top of Celeb city.)

Let that dry.

 

 

 Christmas Nail Design 

Gingerbread Man on the Thumb Nail-  

With a thin detail brush with brown paint on it, make a circle for his head near the tip of the nail, the make two arms, and two legs, then also fill in the body with brown as well. You will need to go over this a few times.

For the eyes take a dotting tool with black paint on it and make two dots in the middle of head. 

For his smile make a straight line and a curved line under that, then fill that in with pink.

For his pink cheeks and white buttons, just make two pink dots with your dotting tool on each side of the mouth. Then for the buttons make two dots down is tummy.

Lastly for a final detail, making the frosting lines. Take a thin stripper brush with white paint on it and make a squiggly line on his head and one on each arm and leg.

 

 Christmas Nail Design 

Christmas Light on the Index Nail- 

Take a thin stripper brush with black paint on it and make a thin zig zag line going down the nail. Then with a lot of different glitters, with a toothpick or just the brush in the bottle, place the glitters on the line you just made for the lights.

  

       Christmas Nail Design 

Ornaments and Snowflakes on the Middle Finger Nail-   

Take a thin stripper brush with white paint on it and make three circles, that are all at different levels, then make a small square at the top of the circles and make a line going from each square to the cuticle area. To finish your Christmas ornaments make a curved line and a small dot under that for the refection on the ornament. 

For the larger snowflakes make a star shape, then for the smaller snowflakes just take a dotting tool with white paint on it and make a few random dots all over the nail.  

  

 Christmas Nail Design 

Reindeer on the Ring Finger Nail-  

With a thin detail brush with brown paint on it make a circle near the tip of the nail, then fill that in. 

For his eyes take a dotting tool with black paint on it, and dot two eyes in the center of his head, then with that same dotting tool with red paint on it make a red dot. For an added touch you can add a red glitter polish on top as well.

Then for his antlers, take your detail brush with black paint on it and make two lines coming from his head and make two small ones from that line.  

  

Christmas Nail Design 

 
Christmas Lights on the Pinky Finger Nail- 

Take your thin stripper brush with black paint on it and make a line down the nail that has loops in it. If the loops are a little to hard to make, you can just repeat the same light design that we did on the index nail. 

Once again for the lights take a few different glitters, with a toothpick or just the brush in the bottle, place the glitters on the line you just made for the lights.

 

 

 

 Christmas Nail Design

Once you have your Christmas design the way you like apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help your design to last through all of your Christmas celebrations. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this Christmas nail design!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Lucky Day- St. Patrick's Day Nail Desig

Hello everyone! Happy St Patrick's Day! First off I want to say sorry for not posting for a while (since Valentine's Day) I have just been feeling tried from work and I have been a little busy. Anyways today we will be creating a rainbow and pot of gold nail design that will start from the thumb nail and go to the ring finger nail. 

St. Patrick's Day Nail Design

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

 

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

Nail polishes- OPI Hawaii- My Gecko Does Tricks, China glaze mini- Grinch- Grinchworthy, and Fun Lacquer- Million Dollar Dream.  

Acrylic paint- black, red, blue, yellow, and green.

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

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

 

 

 St. Patrick's Day Nail Design

Start by removing any old polish that you might have on your nails. On clean dry nails, apply a thin layer of base coat.  

Let that dry.

Once your base coat has dried polish your thumb, index, middle, and ring finger nail with a shimmery green polish (I used OPI My Gecko Does Tricks), then for your pinky finger nail polish that with a glittery green polish (I used China Glaze- Grinchworthy).

Let that dry as well.

  St. Patrick's Day Nail Design

Once your polish has dried we will first be creating the rainbow that will go across most of the nails on the index, middle, and ring finger nail, the rainbow we also will be on the thumb nail as well. For the pinky nail I decided to leave it as is with just  green glitter polish, but you can always make the rainbow go on to the pinky nail as well. 

Rainbow Design:

Starting off with the index nail, take your thin detail brush with blue paint on it and make a curved line near the cuticle staring on the side of the nail.

On the middle finger nail, take that same blue and make a arch near the cuticle.

Then on the ring finger nail, once again with that same blue, make another curved line that will end at the other side of the nail.

Repeat this step for each color; red, green, and yellow. When you are done it should look like a rainbow that is stretched from all three of your nails, along with the thumb later on. 

 

 

 St. Patrick's Day Nail Design

Rainbow and the Pot of Gold: 

Lastly is the lucky part of this nail design, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

First we will make the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Take a thin detail brush with black paint on it, near the middle of the nail and off to the side make a thick line that is curved on each corner, this is for the top of the pot. Then make a circle that is attached to the line you just made for the top of the pot. 

Also we need to complete the rainbow that will be coming out of the pot/ the end of the rainbow. For this step once again repeat the steps to make the rainbow, make sure the rainbow is near the cuticle and off the side of the nail. 

For the final touches take a gold glitter polish (I used Fun Lacquer- Million Dollar Dream) I then used a dotting tool to place the glitter, or you can just place the glitter with the polish brush on to the pot of gold. 

I also added a curved line and a small dot on the side of the pot as well, just for that small bit of detail.

 

 

 St. Patrick's Day Nail Design

Once your St. Patrick's Day design is all done and ready to bring you luck, apply a top coat to seal in your design and help it to last.

Hope all of you enjoyed this St. Patty's Day nails design, and have a safe and Happy St. Patrick's Day if you celebrate this holiday.   

See you next time for more nail fun!

Wonderful Christmas- Christmas Nail Design

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I don't know about all of you but I can't believe that it is almost Christmas, time has been going by so fast! I remember when I was growing up I would count down the days until Christmas and it seem like it always to forever, now days it goes by so fast. Anyways today we have another Christmas nail design; with a Christmas tree, some holly, a gingerbread man, and some ornaments.

  Christmas Nail Design

As always here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this cute Christmas design:

 

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

Nail polishes- China Glaze The Grinch collection, Kiss nail art stripper- Silver, and Funky Fingers- As If (for just the star glitter.) 

Acrylic paint- white, green, yellow, red, black, and brown.

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

Small cup or jar of water to clean off nail art brushes.

 

Christmas Nail Design  

Start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails and to help your design to last. 

Let that dry. 

For our base color we will be using the polishes from the China Glaze Grinch collection. On your thumb nail polish that nail a glittery green, and a rainbow glitter over that when it is dry, the index nail a light glittery blue, your middle and pinky finger nail a glittery red, and your ring finger nail a glittery gold.

Let that dry.

 

 Christmas Nail Design 

Christmas tree Ornaments- 

Then on to the nail art, we will first start off with the ornaments on the two tree branches on the index nail. Take a thin stripper brush with a light green paint and make two long thin lines, starting from the cuticle. Then make some small lines from the larger lines (kind of like a palm tree branch), after that take a darker green and make some small lines next to the light green lines.  

For the ornaments I first made the circle with white paint and then went over the circles with two different polish colors, a pink with a iridescent shimmer over that, and then a purple polish. 

Then you just add two small sliver line from the branches to the ornaments.

 

      Christmas Nail Design

Christmas Holly-

Next we will creating holly on the middle and pinky finger nail, this design is very simple. Just take a dotting tool with red paint on it and make two or three dots near the cuticle, then make a two long lines with green paint, coming from each side of the red berries, and then make four small lines for the leaves.    

Gingerbread Man-

Now on to the gingerbread man on the ring finger nail. First make outline of the gingerbread man with brown paint, make a circle for his head, two arms and two legs, you will need to go over this a few time to be opaque.

Then with your large dotting tool make to eyes and then two dots on his chest for the buttons, and then make a small curved line under his eyes for his smile. 

Also if you would like you can outline your gingerbread man with black, this is hard to do, but seems to always make the design look better.

My gingerbread was a little deformed, but he sill turned out cute and really when you make cookies that don't turn out perfect. 

 

 Christmas Nail Design

 Christmas Tree-

On the thumb nail when I had used the glittery green and rainbow glitter together for the review of the Grinch polishes, I thought this would look cool just making an outline of a Christmas tree because the colors together remind me of a Christmas tree. So that is what we will be doing on the thumb nail. 

Take a thin stripper brush with black paint on it and make a Christmas tree shape, and then take a polish that has star shapes and place it on top of the tree or you can paint a star on top of your tree. 

 

 Christmas Nail Design 

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

Hope all of you enjoyed this Christmas nail design, also if you have not all ready don't forget to check out last weeks nail design Reindeer Games 

Hope all of of you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy Holiday, along with a Happy New Year!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Reindeer Games- Christmas Nail Design

Hello everyone! I don't know about all of you, but I can't believe it's all ready almost Christmas! I literally was just doing fall design (I was a little behind on fall designs, so maybe that's way.) For today we will be creating a Christmas nail design, with everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, along with some Christmas trees. 

  

Christmas Nail Design, Rudolph and Christmas Trees

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used for this Holiday/ Christmas nail design:

 

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

Nail polishes- Finger paints- Tiffany imposter, Zoya- Estelle, Snowman rainbow glitter- frosty, Funky Fingers- As If, and China glaze mini- Grinch- Lukewarm Wishes

Acrylic paint- Green, white, red, black, brown, peach.

Nail art brushes-  Thin detail brush, stripper brush, liner brush, small flat brush and a very small detail brush. (not sure why I used so many brushes?) 

Small cup of water to clean off nail art brushes.

Let's start this reindeer game! 

  

Christmas Nail Design

First start off with a thin layer of base coat over your clean nails, then let that dry.

Then polish your thumb, index, and ring finger with a light blue (I used Finger paints- Tiffany imposter) then once that light blue has dried to add a shimmer to the blue I applied China Glaze- Grinch- Lukewarm Wishes. Then on the middle and pinky finger nail polish those nails with dark shimmery blue (I used Zoya- Estelle).

Let that dry.

  

 

 Christmas Nail Design   

Once your polish has dried we will make our little trees on the index and ring finger nails. For the tree this is suppose to be done by the one stroke method, where you would dip your flat brush into green first and then white, then begin to paint your tree. Well that was not working out for me, so we will do this a little different.

On a small flat brush with green on it near the tip of the nail make a thick green line, by staring on one side and going to the other, by just pushing the brush up and down a little to make a line. Then take that same brush with white paint on it and right under the green do the same thing, just make this line thinner for the snow on the tree. 

Repeat this step three more times, each time you go up the tree make the green and white part shorter, until you get to the top then make a small triangle. 

  

  Christmas Nail Design  

Next we need to add some ornaments to our tree, this is done simply with some glitter. I took a small amount on my nail mat and with a toothpick placed the glitters pieces on a few parts of the trees. For the star I have a polish that has stars in it, I just fished out one star out of the polish and just placed it on top of the tree.

 

  Christmas Nail Design, Rudolph

Once you have your trees the way you like we will finish up this design with Rudolph the red nose reindeer. With thin liner brush with peach paint on it (yes I did get a peach and a brown paint, ever time I would try and make a brown color it would always turn out to dark, so I thought it would be easier to just buy a brown paint.) make a circle and fill that in, it can be kind a sheer at first.

Then for his mouth make a oval near the bottom of the circle, you may need go over this a few time to be opaque. For the rest of the circle fill that in a few time with brown paint, then  make two triangles at the top for his ears. Then for his antlers make two long lines with two small lines at the top.

Now on to his face, with your very small brush make to curved lines for his eyes, for his noes make a large red circle and then for his mouth make to upside down curved lines.

This is optional and I felt made Rudolph look better, you can outline him with black paint. This part is kind of hard, that why I suggested it as optional. 

    Christmas Nail Design, Rudolph and Christmas Trees

Once Rudolph is already to help out Santa, you can apply a top coat to help your nails to last until Christmas, or at lest a week (that's about how long my polish last for me.)  

Hope all of you enjoyed this Christmas nail design, I do plan on doing another Christmas nail design using The Grinch China Glaze polishes for next week.  

See you next time for more nail fun!

Also hope all of you are have a wonderful start to the holiday season!