Things are going to get messy- Halloween Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy Halloween! Today we will be creating something a little bit different for Halloween, well for me. I usually like to create more cute nail designs, but for this Halloween I decided to go outside of the box for this design and I ended up really liking it and having fun creating this design, the only thing is this design is a little bit messy! 

 

Halloween Nail Design

Here are the polishes and tools for this creepy messy nail design: 

 

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat, Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat, and NYC- Matte Me Crazy topcoat. 

Polishes- Essie- Coconut Cove, Sally Hansen- xterme wear- Sun kissed, and Sally Hansen- Triple Shine- Lemon Shark. 

Acrylic paint- Red and black 

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

Other- a make up sponge and a small cup of water.

Warning!! Things are going to get Messy!!

 

 Halloween Nail Design

As always start off with a base coat to protect your nail and to help your nail design to last, even thought this bloody mess you may not want to last.

Once you base coat has dried polish your index, middle, and ring finger nail with a off white polish, then your thumb orange and your ring finger nail yellow.    

*For this part I strongly suggest using paint and not nail polish and 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.*  

 

 Halloween Nail Design

Let your base polishes dry, then let's get to making a mess. We will first start off with the blood splatter on the index, middle, and ring finger nail. First we need to make our blood take a red paint and add the smallest amount of black to it, or until your red looks blood like.

Then water down your red paint 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/ blood, then with your other hand and one finger (or like make end up getting it all over your hand) flick your brush at your nail to make the blood splatter, your will need to do this step many times. Then I also took my finger (because as stated above your other hand will be all red and messy) and dabbed a few spots on the nails.       

Then once your splatter is just right, you can go wash your other hand of all the red paint/ blood or the evidence. (just kidding, their is no real blood used in this design)

 

 Halloween Nail Design

Next we will be creating a spooky scene on our ring finger nail. First take makeup sponge with black paint on it and sponge the black paint near the tip of the nail and near the cuticle, make sure to leave some of the yellow showing in the middle of the nail.

Then make a tombstone near the side of your nails. Then on both side with a thin stripping brush make thin lines that will look like tree branches. 

 

 Halloween Nail Design

Last but not least is the pumpkin in a spooky scene. For this nail repeat the step that you did for the last nail, with the black paint and the sponge, and once again leave some of the orange in the middle showing.

Then we will make the pumpkin on the side of the nail. First make a small circle, do not fill it in, with your very small detail brush make two triangles for his eyes and then make a mouth, fill that in with black, make three curved lines on the pumpkin, lastly add a curved line at the top of the pumpkin.  

Once again just like the ring finger nail make two tress on the sides of the nail.  

 Halloween Nail Design

Then once you have your nail design just right, apply a glossy top coat to all of your nails, then on the blood splattered nails we will apply a matte top coat, once your glossy top coat has dried.  

Hope all of you enjoyed this nail design, even thought blood/gory and scary movies are not my thing. I really enjoyed make this design it was a lot of fun, just kind of a pain to clean up after.

 

Here is the practice design, I used a neural skin tone color and didn't really care for how it turned out, I think it tuned out better on a white base. 

  

Sorry for the big messy I forgot to clean up the white polish and black paint on my nails before taking my photos, see I'm not perfect at polishing my nails, but that's what a clean up brush is for.

 

This is the only way white polish should be worn on the nails, I never got why so many people like a sold white polish on all of their nails. As you can tell I hate white polish along with neutrals, sheer pinks and white toned pinks.     

 

 Just in case you where wonder this is what is on my other hand.

Hope all of you have a fun a safe Halloween!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Sunset in Paradise- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! Once again we will creating a tropical nail design, if you have been checking out the M.M.M blog for a while now, then you know that summer time is my favorite season and I love to create tropical designs in summer. I don't know about all of you but I feel like especially this summer has been going way to fast, I feel like it was just memorial day (the start of summer) and now it's mid summer. Before summer is over with I do have a few more topical design that I want to create before summer has sadly ended. 

 

Tropical sunset nail design 

Here are the nail polishes, paints, and nail art tools used for this tropical design:

  

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

Nail polishes- Essie- Coconut Cove (your base color that goes under your tropical design), OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini, Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart (for the tips of your nails.)

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

Nail art brushes- Flat large brush, fan brush and stripper brush.

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

Let's start this sunset in paradise nail design!

Tropical sunset nail design  

Before I start this post I just want to say that this design is very similar to the Fiery sunset design that I created a few weeks ago, so I will be taking a lot of the wording from that post and putting it into this one. Of course some of the different is this one is on two nails, a darker sunset and just palm trees, but for the most part this has the same concept, Anyways.

As always start off with a thin layer of base coat, and then let that dry.

Once your base coat has dried polish your index, middle, and pinky finger nail with a purple polish (I used OPI- Lost my Bikini in Molokini), these will stay as is with no nail art on them. 

Then polish your thumb and ring finger nail with a white/ or off white polish, this is where will be creating our nail design. I only applied one coat of the white polish, this will act as your base (will not show at all on the nails) because the whole tropical design is done with acrylic paint and the paint does still need a polish base to stick to.  

 Tropical sunset nail design 

These steps need to be repeated on the thumb and ring finger nail, that we will be creating the tropical design.

* Paints colors you will need for the sky: dark blue, light blue, white, purple (which you can't really see in this design, but it's their), pink, red, orange, and red.* 

Let your base polish color dry. Then for the topical design on the thumb and ring finger nail. On a larger flat brush near the cuticle paint a dark blue, then a light blue, then have a small bit of purple and pink in the corner. Then with the fan brush (while the paint is still kind of wet) start to blend those together, you will need to go over this a few time for the sky to be opaque. I did the blue, darker part first and then went to the orange, red part.

Then after I got the first part of the sky the way I wanted, I moved on the the secound half the red and orange part. On that same brush I took orange and yellow and red and blend them together. 

*For the sky it does take kind of a lot of blending and adding more paint to get the sky the way you want it, sometimes I had to add more of a color in to have it look just right because some of the sky would look to dark or to light.*

 

 Tropical sunset nail design 

Now on to the land and the palm trees. Take a black nail polish (that way it last longer and it doesn't tend to rub of) and make the tip of your nails black, kind of like a french manicure. 

For the palm tree we will first make a the large palm tree in the middle of the nail, then the two small palm trees next to it. Take your thin stripper brush with black paint on it, from the middle of the nail make a long straight line for the tree trunk.Then make six curved lines and two straight lines for the outline of the palm tree, then you just add small lines to the branches for the palm leaves. 

For the smaller palm trees repeat the last step with fewer curved lines. 

 

 Tropical sunset nail design 

Once you have your sky colors blended the way you like and your palm trees as well, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to make it nice and shinny.

 

 Tropical sunset nail design

For this nail design it is best to use acrylic paint, it would probably be hard and kind or impossible to blend regular nail polish, but if you use gel polish this could probably be done that way, I just have never tried it that way. 

Also if you did not check out the fiery sunset nail design, check that one out as well.

https://munchkinsmagnificentmanis.blogspot.com/2018/07/fiery-sunset-tropical-sunset-nail-design.html 

Anyways I hope all of you are having a nice summer and enjoined this tropical nail design!

See you next time for more bright and fun nails!    

Fiery Sunset- Tropical Sunset Nail Design

Hello everyone! It's that time of the year again, summer time when I love to create tropical nail designs. Anytime I create a tropical nail design it make me want to go on a tropical vacation, but unfortunately we can't always go on one, so why not create a mini vacation on our nails.
Also the tropical design is all created with acrylic paint and a white polish as the base (the part you can't see under the tropical design.) 

 

    Tropical Sunset Nail Design

Here are the nail polishes, paints, and nail art tools used to create this warm tropical nail design:

 

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

Nail polishes-  Sally Hansen- xterme wear- Sun kisses and Essie- Coconut Cove (this is your base color for your tropical design) 

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

Nail art brushes-  Medium flat brush, small fan brush, small detail brush, and a stripper brush.

Other- small cup or jar with water in it to clean off your nail art brushes.

Let's get ready for a nice, warm, and sunny tropical vacation!  

 

 

Tropical Sunset Nail Design

As always start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails and to help your tropical design to last through your vacation.  

Let your base coat dry.

Once your base coat has dried polish your thumb and pinky finger nail orange, these will stay as is with no nail art on them. Then polish your index, middle, and ring finger nail with a white/ or off white polish. I only applied one coat of the white polish, this will act as your base (will not show at all on the nails) because the whole tropical design is done with acrylic paint and the paint does still need a polish base to stick to.    

 

 Tropical Sunset Nail Design

These steps need to be repeated on all three nails.

* Paints colors you will need for the sky: yellow, orange (I mixed red and yellow to make orange), and red.*

Let your base polish colors dry. Then on to the tropical design on our three fingers. On a flat medium size brush near the cuticle paint yellow, then orange right under the yellow, then red under the orange, make sure each color over lapses each other, this is for blending each color.

Then while the paint is still wet take a fan brush and blend the colors together, if the colors seem to blend away take a small amount of that color on the fan brush and paint over that part. I did end up having to to this few times.  

*Paints colors you will need for the ocean: dark blue, light blue (just add white to the darker blue), and white.*

Under the sky take a dark blue paint and paint that near the tip of the nail for the ocean. You will need to go over this another time for it to be opaque.

Then once that has dried some, take your light blue paint and go over the darker blue, so the colors blend and then add some white paint to the water as well so that also blends. I tried to make it look like a wave, but I'm not to sure that is look like one because my canvas is so small and that is hard to do on a small scale.

For the land take a small detail brush with black paint on it and make a thin black line near the tip of the nail, on the index nail make a small hill, also the lines do not have to be straight I made my lines more curved. 

Also I suggest for this part to use a black polish because the black paint seems to wear away faster then polish because it is on the tips of the nail, where you get the most wear/ chipping.

 Tropical Sunset Nail Design

For the sun on the middle finger, first make a oval shape with white paint, that way the yellow sun will show up, and then make a half circle on each side of the other two nails. Then fill that in with yellow paint.

Next on to the one big palm tree on the index nail. Take your thin stripper brush with black paint on it, from the left hand corner make a long curved line for the tree trunk.Then make four curved lines and two straight lines for the outline of the palm tree, then you just add small lines to the branches for the palm leaves.

On the ring finger nail you need to make another part of the land near the sun and kind of on the top part of the water. You just need to make a slanted line, a straight line and fill that in for your land.

For the two palm trees repeat the steps for the larger palm tree that we just made on the index nail. Just make one taller then the other.

 

      Tropical Sunset Nail Design

For this design you most likely will need to go over some parts a few time to make the colors blend together good and for them to fully show up/ be opaque enough.  

Once you have your tropical design ready for your vacation, apply a top coat to help your design to last thought your whole vacation. 

 

Tropical Sunset Nail Design, practice 

Also I always practice whatever nail designs I am going to do, and I really liked how this design turned out, so I thought I would share it with all of you. I really think the sky turned out to look very cool and like fire.    

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical sunset nail design and hopefully your next tropical vacation will happen sooner then later, that's what I sure hope for.

See you next time for more bright and fun nails!   

Act Like a Lady- Ladybug Nail Design

Hello everyone! Sorry it has been a few weeks since I did a post, I have been busy. I just recently, well about a month ago started working in another salon (which is much better and I like working at) and I now work five days a week, and usually on my days off I do my nails and do a blog post, but on Sunday's lately I have been busy. Even though I work in a nail salon I still want to continue to share my nail designs with all of you and plus I really enjoy it as well. Anyways today we will be creating a cute ladybug design, that will be great for spring time going into summer. 

  

Ladybug Nail Design

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

 

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

Nail polishes- Finger paints- Cubism Crimson, Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart, and Essie- Coconut Cove. 

Acrylic paint- black, green, and red.

Nail art tools- large dotting tool, two detail nail art brushes.

Other- small jar with acetone in it to clean off your brushes, and a cup of water to also clean off your brushes.

Let's start this very lady like nail design!

 

Ladybug Nail design 

First start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails.

Once that has dried polish all of your nails red, except for the ring finger nail polish that nail white.

Then once your base colors have dried we will start off with the black spots that are on the ladybugs shell or wings. This is the most simplest part and will be done on the index, middle and pinky finger nails.

First we will make larger dots, with a thin detail brush with black paint make three or more (depending on your nail length you can add more or less spots) large circles.

Then with a large dotting tool fill in some of the area with smaller dots, make sure not make to many dots, leave some of the red showing. The dots can be done with either black paint or polish, I used black paint.

Small ladybug on the ring finger nail-

Next we will make the small ladybug on the ring finger nail. First make make a green line near the tip of your nail, with green acrylic paint, for the branch or leaf that your lady bug will be on. 

Then for the ladybug herself first make a small red circle near the side of your nail (I used red acrylic paint to start off), and over the green line you just made. For the head make a small black circle with black paint.

Once the red part of her body is dried, you can also go over that red with the same red polish that you painted your four nails with, or you can always just start off with the red polish. 

Now all you need to do is add four little lines for the legs and two antennas on top of her head. 

Then once the red polish for her body is dried, just make a black line down the center of her shell and then add a few small black dots.

 

 Ladybug design on the thumb nail

Lastly we will be make a larger ladybug on the thumb nail. First with a thin detail brush with black paint or polish make a arch half way up the nail near the tip of the nail, then fill in that part with black polish. 

Then with a detail brush with more black paint on it make a line down the center of the nail.

With a large dotting tool and black paint or polish on it make some black dots on the red part of the ladybugs shell.

With that same clean dotting tool and white paint make to eyes on the black arch part. Once that has dried put to black dots in the middle of the white dots.

 

 Ladybug Nail Design

Once you have finished your ladybug nail design and have let is dry apply a top coat to protect your nails and to help your cute design to last.

Hope all of you enjoyed this ladybug nail design, I thought this turned out very cute for spring time.

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Unicorn Frap- Water Marble Nail Design

Hello everyone! This week on the M.M.M blog we will be creating a unicorn frap nail design, I am a little late on the whole unicorn frap craze that was around because of a certain coffee company. But I had been seeing some people creating a cool looking nail design inspired by this popular drink, so I figured why not give it a try anyways (I didn't get a chance to try the drink when it was out though.)

 

 Unicorn Frap, Water Marble Nail Design

This nail design has been done a few different ways, but the best way that it seem to work out for me is by water marbling. 

Here are the nail polishes and nail art tool used to create this mythical nail design.

 

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

Nail polishes- Glam Polish Experiment 626- Stitch to the Rescue, OPI- La Paz-itively Hot, OPI- Hello Kitty- My Pal Joey, Julep- Hazel- Boho glam, Essie- Coconut Cove, and Color Club- Mini- Blue Purple glitter.  

Nail art tools- a stylus or tool for marbling and a makeup sponge.

Other (Not show in the photo above)- two plastic cups with room temp water in it ( I recommend two cups just in case your water starts to get to messy), toothpicks (if you don't have the stylus, even if you do I recommend toothpicks!), tape to tape around your fingers, or Liquid Latex, and some paper tower this design is Messy!

Let's start this mythical unicorn water marble nail design!  

  

 

 Unicorn Frap, Water Marble Nail Design

First off start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails and too help your polish last a little longer. 

Then once your base coat has dried, polish your thumb, middle, and ring finger with a bright hot pink polish. We will only be doing the water marbling on those fingers, you can always do this design on all the nails, I just wanted to do the water marble on three finger nails. 

If you want to only do the water marble on the three nails, you can polish your index and pinky with a bright blue with white, bright pink and holo glitter in it, I found that the polish from the Glam Polish Experiment 626 collection Stitch to the Rescue, went perfect with this design. 

Once the bright pink polish has dried on your thumb, middle and ring finger nails we will start the water marbling. This process is messy so it is best to put tape around your finger, near the cuticles and the sides of the nail, or even better you can use liquid latex to put  around your finger for an easier cleanup. I still don't have any liquid latex, so I used tape.  

Then take your bright pink polish (the same one you used for your base color), a purple and a blue polish and open all of the bottles, so you have them ready to go, you do need to work kind of fast for this design.    

Take the bright pink and make sure the polish brush is loaded with polish, so you can drip the polish into the water. Do the same with the purple and blue, in the end you should have a bulls-eye design in your cup. 

Then with your stylus or toothpick start to drag the toothpick in the water to create a marble design. Then quickly dip your finger into the part of the water that you like design.

Then take another toothpick and remove the rest of the polish around your finger. Then take your finger out of the water. Then remove the tape or liquid latex around your fingers, as you go on each finger that you are going to marble.

Once your marble design has dried we will add some whip cream on top or on the tip of the nails. Take a small piece of makeup sponge and polish some white polish on it, then dab the sponge onto the tip of the nail, kind of like a french manicure but it does not need to be perfect.

Then once that has dried we will add the sprinkles or sugar (not sure what is on top of the drink?) Just take a blue and purple glitter polish and polish that over the white polish.   

 

Unicorn Frap, Water Marble Nail Design

Once your unicorn frap water marble nail design has dried apply a top coat to seal in your nail design. 

Water marbling can be both easy and hard, the concept seem easy but some times your water marble still does not come out the way you want, it just takes practice, the right temperature for your water and the right nail polishes. Also here is a link to the first water marble that I did back in 2015 Lets try water marbling, where I show step by step photos. I definitely feel like this time around that the water marble turned out much better. Also their are a lot of YouTube videos out their on how to do water marbling as well.

Hope all of you enjoyed this unicorn frap, water marble nail design, even if you did or didn't care for the drink, I still think this design turned out pretty cool!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Hoppy Easter- Easter Nail Design

Hello Everyone! Happy Easter, well almost Easter! Today we will be creating a cute bunny, a chick and some grass with Easter eggs in it. As always the theme will be cute, that's just my style when it comes to nail art and art in general. 

  Happy Easter Nail Design

Here are the polish and tools that we will be using for this Easter nail design:

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

Nail polishes- Colors by llarowe- Arturo, Essie- Coconut Cove, Zoya; Daisy, Eden, Leslie, Lillian, and Rayne. 

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

Nail art tools- thin liner brush, detail brush, long thin liner brush, and a small detail brush. 

(you really don't need that many brushes, I just ended up using four brushes) and a medium size dotting tool.

Other- cup of water to clean off your brushes and a small glass jar with acetone to clean off the polish on your brushes as well.

Let's hop to it and start this Easter nail design!

    Chick in egg nail design

Start off with a thin layer of base coat.

Once your base coat has dried polish all of your nail with a light holographic polish, I used
Colors by llarowe- Arturo. Then polish your thumb with a shimmery or cream yellow polish, I used Zoya Daisy. 

Once your polish has dried we will start to paint the chick in the egg on the thumb nail. Take a thin liner brush with white paint and make a zig- zag line kind of in the middle of the nail, then fill in the top near the tip of the nail with white.

Then repeat that same step near the cuticle area, just make sure their is enough room for your little chick to peak out. 

Now for the eyes and beck, with a dotting tool dot two black dots for his eyes. Then for his beak make a side ways triangle.   

If you would like you can also go over the white shell part with an off white or white polish, that was what I did.

Once the shell is dry for an added touch I just dotted colorful dots on the shell.

 

 Grass an Easter eggs on index nail

Now onto the index nail where we will paint grass and Easter eggs. First we will make three different shades of green, the main green that you already have, a light green and a dark green. First take your main green paint and then make a dark green by add a small amount of black, and then a light green by adding a small amount of yellow.

With the main green paint make random blades of grass and then, switch the colors from dark green to light green. 

Once that has dried with white paint on a detail brush make two eggs on the grass. Once that has dried go over the eggs with whatever polish color you would like (a spring color) and then you can add dots or lines onto the eggs. 

    Grass and Easter eggs on pinky nail

For the pinky nail repeat the last steps again. 

 Bunny and bunny butt nail design 

Now on to the cute bunny and the bunny butt, which I think turned out super cute! 

First we will start off with the bunny's face on the ring finger. With white paint on a thin liner  brush, make a circle and then fill that in.

Then on top of the head make two ears, you may need to go over the bunny a few times with the white paint to make it fully opaque.

Once that has dried, with a dotting tool and black paint dot to large eyes.

With a thin detail brush with pink paint on it make a upside down triangle for the nose.

Then with a thin liner brush with black paint on it make three lines on each side of his face for whiskers.

Just for an added touch you can add some colorful dots up top of the bunny, for the background.

Next we will make the bunny butt, take a thin detail brush with white paint on it and make a big circle and then fill that in with white paint. 

Then make two oval shapes on the sides of the body for the feet. At the top of the large circle make a small circle for his fluffy. 

For the paws make a large circle and the three small dots under that with pink paint.

For the fluffiness of the tall take a light gray, a dark gray, and a white paint and dab each color into the tall until the tall look fluffy. 

Once you have your bunny butt the way you like you can also outline the bunny with a light gray paint, or if this is a little to tricky you can always skip that part, I just think this step helps to make the bunny stand out more. 

  

 Easter Nail Design

Once you have your cute bunny and chick the way you like, apply a top coat to protect you nails and help them to last longer.

 

 Simple Easter Nail Design, on right hand

As usually here is a simple design that I did on my right hand. I just did the grass with eggs and some colorful dots. 

  

 Practice version of Easter Nail Design

Also here is the practice version of the Easter design that I did as well. As always I do still need to practice my nail designs before doing the final design on my nails, practice makes perfect!  

Hope all of you enjoyed this cute Easter nail design and have a Happy Easter as well!

See you next time for more nail fun!