Bye 2019, Hello 2020- New Years Glitter Gradient Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy almost New Year 2020! I can't believe that I am saying that! Time has just been going so fast, it just seem like it was just the beginning of 2019 not to long ago. I do say that 2019 was not to bad, in the middle of the year I got a new full time job that I have been at now for three months and I do still like, and along with get that new job it helped me to be able to get a new car that I unfortunately needed (yes I got the same car a VW Beetle, just a newer version, I had a 2005 Beetle for 14 years and I loved that car.) Anyways today we will be creating a basic glitter gradient nail design that is great for new years.   

 

Happy New Year's Nail Design 

All you need for this simple glitter gradient nail design:

  

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

Polishes- Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart, Fun Lacquer- Million Dollar Dream and Revlon- Gold Coin (your base color under the glitter.)

Other- a makeup sponge for your glitter gradient. 

 

 

 Happy New Year's Nail Design 

Apply Base coat, let that dry.

Polish nails-

Thumb, index, middle, and pinky nail- a black creme polish.

Ring finger nail- a gold polish (Revlon- Gold Coin) and a gold holographic glitter polish, the same one that you will use for the gradient on all the other nails (Fun Lacquer- Million Dollar Dream.)

Let dry.

 

 Happy New Year's Nail Design 

For the gradient on the tip of the nails, first just polish a light coat of your gold holo glitter polish, starting from the tip of the nails and just slightly going up the nail. 

Then take your makeup sponge and polish that same glitter on the sponge, this soaks up most of the clear base making more of the glitter stick to the nail. 

Then dab the sponge mainly at the tip of the nail, making sure that their is not that much glitter going up the nail, that is starts to almost fade.  

Also I did go over a few spots with the brush that may have needed just a little more glitter.

 Happy New Year's Nail Design 

That's all you need to create this beautiful glitter gradient nail design, that with the gold holo glitter and black are perfect for New Years, or any time of the year all you have to do is just change up the colors that you use.

Once your nails are new years ready, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last through all of your parties and midnight or just saying at home to watch the ball drop, (that is what my hubby and I will be doing and eating pizza.)

Hope all of you enjoyed this black and gold holo glitter gradient nail design.

Have a safe and Happy New Year 2020!  

See you next year 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! 

Glittery Fall- Fall Tree Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we have one more fall nail design, this design I felt like it would be a nice way to transition into winter. I have stated in other blog that I don't care for fall nail designs or fall polish colors, so for this design the leaves will be glittery and not like normal fall designs. As all of my nail designs I get inspiration from Pinterest and make it my own, I saw a glitter fall nail design like this one and thought that was a cool way of doing a fall design without the boring colors, like browns and neutrals.  

 

Fall Tree Nail Design

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to make this glittery fall nail design:   

 

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

Polishes- Julep- Hazel- Boho glam, Revlon- Gold Coin, Fun Lacquer- Million Dollar Dream, Color Club- Mini- Silver Glitter, Color Club- Mini- Green glitter, and Cover Girl- Boundless color- Disco dazzle. 

Nail art tools- thin detail brush and a thin stripper brush.

Small glass jar with acetone in it to clean off nail art brushes.

       Fall Tree Nail Design

Start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails and to help your design to last, then let that dry.

Then polish all of you nails with a shimmery purple polish, once again let that dry.

 

 

Fall Tree Nail Design

Now on to the design, for this design you can put the trees on all of your nails or just a few of the nails, for the photos above I put the tree design on all of the nails. 

First we will start off with the tree trunk, take a thin stripper brush with gold polish on it and make two curved lines on each side of the nail to make the shape of the tree trunk, then in the middle of those lines start to make some random lines going different directions for the branches, also on the tree trunk make sure to fill that in with gold polish as well.   

Once you have finished that part take a few different glitter polishes (I used a gold, sliver and green) and kind of blob them on to the nail on the tree branches. I used a nail art brush to blob the leaves on, you can also just use the brush that is in the bottle.

 

 Fall Tree Nail Design, on the thumb

  

Fall Tree Nail Design

Then once you have your fall glittery trees the way you like apply a top coat to seal in your nail design and to help it to last. 

 

 

Fall Tree Nail Design

Want an even simpler design? You can just put the tree designs on a few nails, on my other hand I only did the design on my thumb and ring finger and then the other nails I used a purple holographic glitter from Zoya called Finley. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this very simple fall to winter nail design and I hope all of you enjoyed the fall and have a nice winter and try to stay warm as well, unless you are luck and live a warm place.

See you next time for more nail fun!