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! 

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!

Underwater Seascape- Waterfall Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating a simple design. This design is actually called a waterfall design, but when I was practice it earlier this week, it looked kind of like an abstract underwater seascape and not so much a waterfall.
Anyways for this design I wanted to incorporate two colors from the Essie Summer 2016 collection, mainly Viva Antigua and some of the color Loot the Booty. These colors went great for the seascape theme. 

     Underwater Seascape or Waterfall Nail Design 

using Essie Viva Antigua and Loot the Booty.

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

  

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

Nail polishes- Essie- Viva Antigua! and Essie- Loot the Booty.

Nail art striping polish- Kiss nail art striper- Silver.

Nail art tools- a thin nail art striper brush and a small dotting tool.

Other- a small glass jar with nail polish remover or acetone to clean off your nail art brushes.

Let's start this simple seascape/ waterfall nail design!  

As always start off with a base coat on all of your nails, to protect them and to help your manicure last.

 

Underwater Seascape Nail Design 

First we start off by paint all of our nails with a shimmery turquoises (Essie Viva Antigua!) This polish has a gold shimmer in it. This time when I went to apply the polish it kind of was thick, it may have been do to the fact that I felt warm and the room was a little warm. I did put some thinner in the polish, which helped but this polish should not have been thick because it is still new and I have only used it a few times.  

For the actual design part, it is very simple it consists mainly of random curved lines. I did base this design off of a design I found I Pinterest, but when it came to actually doing the design I just painted the lines randomly and it came out looking quite nice.

For the curved lines, using a thin striper brush with a dark blue (Essie Loot the Booty), starting from the center of the nail near the cuticle make one curved line, then make a few more on each side of the nail. Their was not a curtain number of lines that I did. Also some of the larger lines I added a few small lines to that.

Once you have all the blue lines that you want and that is dry, take a silver stripering polish and draw just a few curved lines near/ next to the blue ones, if some of the sliver lines overlap that is okay. 

Then with a small dotting tool, with that same silver polish make a few dots near the tip of the nail. In the middle on the thumb I put three dots and then on the sides I put two dots, for the other nail I put two dots in the center and one on the side.

 

 Underwater Seascape Nail Design 

Once your design has dried apply a top coat to seal in your design and to protect your nails. 

 

 Underwater Seascape Nail Design 

The polishes from the Essie Summer collection Viva Antigua! and Loot the Booty, along with a silver polish looked really nice for a seascape design. I think the small dots kind of look like bubbles. Even though this design was meant to be a waterfall design, I think the underwater seascape workout. Do you think this looks like a seascape or a waterfall?

Here is a link to the Paradise found- tropical design that I also used the Essie Summer 2016 collection.

Also in the last tutorial that I used this collection, I forgot to include where you can find these polishes. 

Essie summer collection mini set $17.00 at Ulta, mini's 4x 0.16fl oz

Essie.com $8.50 each, regular size 13.5 ml, 4.6 fl oz

Target $8.99 each, size 13.5 ml, 4.6 fl oz

Or where Essie polishes are sold.

Hope all of you enjoy this Underwater Seascape or Waterfall nail design!

Also hope that all of you have been liking how I have been doing the tutorials, even though they don't show photos of each step, I still try to explain each step.  

See you next time for more nail fun!     

Butterfly Kisses- Butterfly Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the M.M.M blog we will be creating a pretty butterfly; a full butterfly on the thumb nail and the butterfly wings on the other nails. This butterfly will be a little bit different from the butterflies that you are use to seeing, these butterflies will be holograph. I thought it would be a different and cool twist on creating butterflies if we use holo polish.   

 Pink Holographic Butterfly Nail Design   

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

    

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

Nail polishes- Color Club- Halo's- Cloud Nine, Color Club- Eternal Beauty,Color Club- Halo's- Crystal Baller, Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart, and China glaze- white on white.

Nail art polish- Kiss nail art stripper- Black

Acrylic paint- black

Nail art tools- small dotting tool, long thin stripper brush, and a thin liner brush.

Other- small glass jar with water in it to clean off your brushes.

Let's start this holo butterfly design!   

Always start off with a base coat to protect your nails and to help your design last.

Then paint all of your nails with a pink holographic polish (Color Club- Halo's- Cloud Nine.)  

 Butterfly wings on index, middle, ring, and pinky finger nails.

First we will start off with the wing design on the index, middle, ring, and pinky finger nails. With black acrylic paint and a thin stripper or liner brush ( I ended up switching between the two), first make a curved line near the cuticle.

On the curved line make three or more small lines or dots as a guide to where you are going to make the larger lines for the wings.

Then try to make straight lines going up the nail (I had a little bit of trouble for some reason, my hand kept shaking when I was trying to make the line).

Once you get to the top make a small curved line, after you have one area done go to the next and make the top of the curve a little lower, keep making the curves lower for each part of the wing.

Once you have the wing shapes, take a black polish and fill in the tip of the nail, for the smaller parts you may need to use your black stripper/ nail art polish.

Once the black part has dried, take a small dotting tool with white polish on it and make a few dots along the tip of your nail, I only did three.

 

 Butterfly on the thumb nail

Next we will be making the larger butterfly. First we will make the outline of the body, take a thin liner brush with black acrylic paint and draw a thin line down the center, this will be kind of a guide to know where to paint the butterflies wings and be a part of it too.

Then make a curved shape near the bottom right half of the nail tip for it's wing.Then on the other side do the same thing for two wings. 

After that on the top of the wing on the right side, kind of make half of a wing.

On the other side, or above the wing on the left side make another wing, for me I ended up kind of making this wing pointed, you can always try and make it more round like the other wings or the same as I did. 

Now we will add some color into to butterfly, take a purple holographic polish (Color Club- Eternal Beauty) and paint the inside of the wings, once that has dried take a blue holographic polish (Color Club-Crystal Baller) and paint some blue staring in the middle of the wings, only go half way up the wings still leaving some purple showing. 

Once that has dried you may need to re-outline your butterfly with black paint, if the holographic polish covered the outline. 

For the smaller details, first we will make a curved line on the tips of the wings and paint that in with black paint. Then on the wings we will add small lines on the wings, I just made a few thin lines from the center of the wings.

Once the black part on the wings has dried, take a small dotting tool with white polish on it and make a few dots on each part of the wings.

For the final touch just add two lines on top and the center of the butterfly for the antennas. 

  

 Final Butterfly Nail Deisgn

Once your design has dried apply a top coat to protect you nails and make them even more shinny!

Other close up of the butterfly on the thumb nail.

For this design you can use whatever holographic colored polish you would like or any type of polish from cremes, glitters, shimmers, etc. I just thing holo makes any design look more prettier.

Hope all of you enjoyed this holographic butterfly design!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

May the Force Be With You- Star Wars Design

Hello everyone! From the title of this post you can already tell what this weeks design will be, if you are a Star Wars fan then this design I know you have been waiting for. I know you maybe thinking Star Wars has been out for a few weeks now, why did you wait to do this design? Well I had planned to do this design the week the movie came out, then I got sick and had to put it off, but I figured this is a very popular movie and it would be okay to do the design still. 

  Star Wars Nail Design, which side do you choose the Dark or the Light side?

The nail polish and tools used for this Star Wars design will be right next to the images as we go.

The skill level for this Star Wars nail design is:

 

  Intermediate 

This design has parts that are both easy and difficult. As far as the easy parts, the galaxy is the easy part, with just sponging on three colors, then adding glitter, and two X's for stars. The part that is a little bit harder is the Star Wars text on the thumb nail, and maybe the light saber and storm troopers.

Let's decide if we want to go to the Light or Dark side, or just start this Star Wars nail design!

  

 Base coat used Nicole OPI-  3in1- base, top, & strengthener

1. Start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails from the dark side or dark nail polish. 

  

Nail polishes used Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart 

and China glaze- white on white  

2. Paint all of your nails black, except your index finger nail, paint that nail white.

  

White acrylic paint and a thin nail art brush

 

3. First we will start off with the Star Wars title on the thumb nail. For the title I just look up online to see what the text look like to try and paint it on my nail. First we will write Star, take your thin nail art brush dipped into white paint and starting with the letter S and write Star.

   

4. Once you have painted Star, we will be paint Wars under that. Once again with your thin nail art brush dipped into white paint, starting with the W write Wars.

 

Sponge cut into 3 small pieces, and China glaze- white on white.

5. Now we will do the fun and pretty part (at least I thought so) the galaxy. Take a makeup sponge cut into small pieces (I cut three small pieces) and paint your sponge with white polish, then dab the sponge down the center of the nail or just random spots on your nails like the photo above.

 

 Zoya Dream and Aurora 

6. Next we will sponge on blue and purple. I thought the perfect blue and purple polish to use for a galaxy, would be Zoya's Dream and Aurora. We will first start off with the blue, take your other small piece of makeup sponge and paint that blue, then dab over/ near the white. Then take another small piece of sponge and paint that purple, then right next to the blue dab on the purple. You can leave some of the white showing if you would like.    

 

Cover Girl- Boundless color- Disco dazzle, sorry this polish is kind 

of old but you should be able to find one that is similar.

7. Now for the stars, this is very simple all you need is a sliver glitter with small and large glitter pieces in it, and paint it right over the galaxy you just made. Also for more stars you can add two white starts with a white nail art stripper, just add two X's near the top and bottom of the nail or wherever you would like. 

     

 White acrylic pant and a thin nail art brush

8. To add more of a Star Wars feel to this design we will be making two light-sabers on the ring finger nail. First we need to make the outline of the light- sabers, with white paint to make them stand out over the dark background. Take your thin nail art brush dipped into white paint make an X and go over it a few times to make the light-sabers thicker. Then make a two small lines for the handle of the light-saber. 

 

           Black acrylic paint 

9. As we wait for the light- saber outline to dry, we will create the stormtrooper on the index nail. Take your clean thin nail art brush dipped into black paint, and make a thick black line near the cuticle, then make two eye under that thick black line.

     

10. To finish your stormtrooper, make two lines in a triangle shape for the mouth, then two lines and a small triangle under the mouth on the tip of the nails. 

    Final Star Wars nail design on the left hand

 

 Polishes used for light-sabers Finger paints- Cubism Crimson

 and Sinful Color- Midnight blue 

11. Now back to the light- sabers, we need to fill them in. Take your clean thin nail art brush dipped into red nail polish and paint over one of the light- sabers, then clean off your brush and dip your brush into blue nail polish and paint over the other light- saber. Also you need to add some grey to your light- sabers handle. Take you clean thin nail art brush dipped into grey paint (mix white and black paint) and go over the white part of the handle.

     

 

 

Which side did you pick the Light or Dark side?  

Once your Star Wars nail design has dried, apply a top coat to seal in your design, as usually I used Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

  

 Star Wars Nail Design on the right hand

If you are having a little bit of trouble with the Star Wars letters/ tilte on the thumb nail, here is another option. Just add the galaxy on your thumb nail, that is what I did on my dominate hand, the right hand.

Hope all of you enjoyed this Star Wars nail design, and sorry I did not have this post done when the movie came out. But if you have not seen it yet or if you want to see it again you can wear this design to show your love of Star Wars. 

May the force be with you!

See you next time for more nail fun!