Bamboo Fun- Panda Nail Design

Hello everyone! Once again hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. Today we will be creating a cute panda bear nail design. With some simple dot's and two panda bears. This design that I did last week with the koala bears, kind of going together with this design, both of theses animals are my favorites, along with cats and dogs. So kind of a my fav animal compilation.

Panda Nail Design 

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

 

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

Polishes- OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini, Zoya Sunshine- Delia, and Loreal- textured polish, too dimensional.

Acrylic paint-  White, black, and red (to make pink.) 

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

Small cup of water to clean of your nail art brush. 

Panda Nail Design 

Apply base coat.

Let dry.

Polish-

Thumb and index- dark purple (I used OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini.)

Middle and pinky-  light purple (I used Zoya- Delia.) 

Ring Finger- purple glitter (I used Loreal- textured polish, too dimensional.)

Let that dry. 

 Panda Nail Design 

Dot's on middle and pinky finger nail

Take the same polish that you used on the ring finger nail, and on a large dotting tool dot a few row of purple glitter dots. I did three rows going down the nails. 

 

Panda Nail Design 

Panda peeking from the tip of the nail

On the index nail near the tip of the nail make a circle and fill that in with white paint. 

With black paint make two ovals on the pandas head for the ears.

For your pandas face we will just make the eyes and nose. First make some small dots to know where you want to place the eyes and nose at. Then make two black ovals that are slightly cut off for the eyes, then make a small white dot in those ovals. 

For his nose make a small black oval in between the eyes right on the tip of the nail.

For an added touch you can add a heart in the right hand corner of the nail above your pandas head. 

  Panda Nail Design 

Panda on thumb nail 

The panda on the thumb is very similar to the one we just made on the index nail, the pandas whole face will be showing, and we will make the panda mouth as well. 

For the panda head make more of a full circle near the cuticle and then fill that in with white.

Once again with black paint make two ovals on the pandas head for the ears.

For the pandas face make small dots again for where you want to place the eyes and nose. 

For the eyes make to full black oval shapes and then add two small dots in those ovals.

Then make a small black oval in the middle of the eyes

Lastly for the panda's smile make a line from the nose and then two curved lines from that for his smile. 

Once again you can make a heart above the pandas head, I put it on the left side.  

Panda Nail Design

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

 

Here is my practice version.

Also like pandas as much as me? check out the other panda design that I also created a while ago. Panda Butt

Hope you enjoined this panda nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

New Year, New Beginnings- New Year Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy New Year, well almost New Year! I can't believe how fast this year has gone! This year has been another big year for me, with a new career choice deciding to become a professional/ licensed nail tech, going back to school again to get licensed, passing the state board test, and then getting a job in a salon. This year has defiantly brought some big changes! In the coming year, I hope for more awesome new adventures!

Anyways today to celebrate this New Year we will be creating a new year nail design, with silver, holo silver, and black nail polish and for a pop of color adding some rainbow glitter to the design. This design can be kind of hard because we will be painting words and numbers on the nail, don't worry I do have a easier alternative that I did on my right hand.  

         Happy New year 2017! 

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

 

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

Nail polishes- Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart, Sally Hansen- xtreme wear-Celeb city, Color Club Halo's- Harp on, Snowman rainbow glitter- frosty, and Color Club- Mini- Silver Glitter.

Nail art polishes- Kiss nail art polishes in black and silver.

Acrylic paint- black and white.

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

Other- a jar or cup with water in it to clean your nail art brushes, tweezers and small nail scissors, and a toothpick to place the glitter (not show in the photo above.) 

Let's start this New Year off right, with a cool nail design!    

Happy New Year 2017 Nail Design

Start off with a base coat to protect your nails.

Once your base coat has dried, polish your thumb and pinky nail black, your middle and ring finger a glittery/ shimmery silver, and on your thumb a silver holographic. Also the black polish I used for this design  Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart is an awesome cheap black polish, that covers in one coat, the way it should be with a dark polish!

 Happy New Year design on the thumb nail.

Let's start off with the thumb nail. This part can be kind of hard, I found that if you first paint the words with white acrylic paint it makes it a little bit easier, that if you mess up you can just wipe off the paint. Once you have Happy New Year! on your nails let that dry and then if you would like, take a silver stripping polish and go over the words again. Then once that dries take a rainbow glitter and polish that on the nail to look like confetti. 

 

 Silver Holo, black, and rainbow glitter nail design on index nail.

Next we will make the design on the index nail. First make sure the silver holo is dry, then take three strips of nail art tape and staring from the corner of the nail, place them on the nail on a slant. 

With your black thin nail art polish, fill in the top two areas that are taped off (like the photo above) and then with a regular black polish fill in the rest. I used the black stripper polish because it was easier to use a smaller brush near the top, that way you don't mess up that part with a thicker brush. 

* Make sure to peel up the tape with tweezers right away, don't wait for the polish to dry!

Then take your black stripper polish and make two thin lines in the blank areas.

After that has dried take a toothpick and place your rainbow glitter at the top corner of the design for a pop of color.

 

  2017 on middle and index nail 

Another hard part is writing 2017 on the middle and index nail. Once again I found that using black paint to write 2017 made it much easier. Start off with 2 and then 0 on the middle finger nail, then 1 and 7 on the ring finger nail, try to make sure that all of the numbers line up.

Once your numbers have dried, polish your rainbow glitter all over the nails so that is also looks like confetti. 

  

 Dripping glitter on the pinky nail.

Lastly the easy part dripping sliver glitter. Take your dotting tool with the sliver glitter on it, first drag the dotting tool on the tip of the nail, then drag the glitter down the nail making some long and some short drips. You will need to re- dip your dotting tool in the silver glitter polish when making the drips. 

 

 Happy New Year Nail Design! 

Once your New Year design is New Years ready, or just dried apply a top coat to protect your nails and to help them last into the New Year.

  Other New Years Nail design on the right hand.

Was the first design a little to hard? Here is another option that incorporates some of the first design just made more simple.

On the index nail I did the same design as the pinky nail with a silver background and silver dripping glitter.    

The middle and ring finger nail I used the nail art tape to make a simple design. You just place as many pieces of nail art tape as you would like,and starting from one corner on a slant. The middle finger nail I used four pieces and the ring finger nail I used three pieces. 

Make sure to put extra top coat over the tape to make sure it sicks to the nails. I have ran into the problem of the tape not sicking well. 

Than for an add touch just place some glitter in the corner where all the tape meets. 

The pinky nails just polish some rainbow glitter over the black. 

     Design on the other thumb nail

For the thumb nail this is the same design that is created on the index nail on my left hand. The thicker black part is just in the middle and the two thin lines are on the sides. 

 

New Years Nail Design on the right hand.

Above is the final design that I created on my right hand, this is a great option if writing Happy New Year! 2017 is a little to hard.

Hope all of you enjoyed this party ready or just sitting at home watching the ball drop on TV design.

See you next year for more nail fun! 

The start of next year I have a collection that I am super excited to share with all of you, it is a collection based on one of my favorite movies, and of course a lot more fun nail art that we can try together or you can just look at and enjoy!     

Have a fun and safe New Year 2017!

Snowy Christmas

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday's! Anyone have any fun plains for the holiday's? I'm am just doing the same old same old, just going to visit family near by, no fun trips for me, which would be awesome! Anyways today we will be creating a winter/ snowy Christmas scene,or this could just be a winter scene minus the Christmas trees.

 

 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 

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

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

Nail Polishes- Zoya- Dream, Zoya- Urban Grunge- Alicia, Snowman rainbow glitter- frosty, and Funky Fingers- As If (for the stars in the polish.)

Acrylic paint- white paint

Nail art tools- a thin stripper brush

Other- a glass jar (or a cup) with water in it to clean off your nail art brush, and a toothpick to pick up the glitter.


Let's start this snowy Christmas design! 

  Snow covered Christmas tree on the index finger nail.

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

Then paint all of your nails with a holographic or a glittery/ shimmery blue polish, I used Zoya Dream. This polish I thought went perfect for the winter snowy theme because the scattered holo looks like snow. 

 

* For this design we will be creating it on three of the nails, the index, middle, and ring finger nail, the thumb and pinky nail will just stay plain blue, well holo blue. 

Once that has dried, on the tips of the three nails app a sliver holographic or glitter shimmer polish, this is for the snow on the ground. I sponged this on but once I did that I felt like that was not completely necessary, you can just polish the silver part. You may need to go over this three time to be opaque enough.

Once that has dried we will start to make our trees. On the ring and index finger nail we will make one large tree on the sides of the nail. On the middle we will make two trees a medium and a small size tree next to each other.

For all of the trees with white acrylic paint and a stripper brush make a long line, then small arrow lines starting from the top, each smaller line should be just a little bit longer then the last line to form a tree. On each of those lines I put a few smaller lines on the ends to give it kind of a pine tree look to it.

 Snow covered Christmas tree on the ring finger nail.

Once that has dried, the trees on the index and ring finger nail we will make into Christmas trees. This is done by taking a rainbow glitter polish, and with a toothpick picking out the glitter polish, just a few pieces and placing them on the tree like ornaments. 

Now to add the star on top. If you have a glitter polish with stars in it you can place it on top of the tree just like the ornaments, by fishing it out of your polish with a toothpick.  If you don't have a polish with star glitters in it, you can always use the same glitter that you placed on the tree.

 

 Snow covered tress on the middle finger nail.

For your middle finger nail design, you can leave this one with no glitter ornaments or you can have all of your trees be decorated, it is up to you.

 

    Final Snowy Christmas Nail Design

Once everything has tried apply a top coat to protect and seal in your design. 

 

    The Christmas colored polishes on my right hand 

Just for fun on my right hand I decided to keep things simple and just paint my nails with some Christmas colored polishes. If you have trouble painting a design on your other hand this can also be an alternative to doing a design, or if you just fell like doing a design on one hand, and who cares if your nail don't really match that's the fun part about doing your nails!

 

Here are the polishes I used on my right hand Zoya- Amal- Matte Velvet (I applied a glossy top coat for a shinny look.), Zoya- Urban Grunge- Merida, and Zoya- Urban Grunge- Alicia (as an accent nail.)

Hope all of you have a wonderful Holiday/ Christmas! No matter what Holiday you celebrate hope it a great one and filled with bright and fun nails! Also of course enjoy time with all of your families and friends! 

See you next time for more nail fun!