Dragonfly Dreams- Dragonfly Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating a dragonfly design. This design is inspired by a design that I would do on this lady, that would come to the nail salon that I use to work at and she would always want a dragonfly on her big toenail. So after doing this design plenty of times on her, I thought I would give it a try on my own finger nails, and show all of you how it is done. 

 

Dragonfly Nail Design 

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

 

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

Nail polishes- Sally Hansen- Insta Dri Matte- Smoldering Teal, Loreal- textured polish, too dimensional, Sally Hansen- xtreme wear-Celeb city, and Color Club- Mini- Silver Glitter.

Acrylic paint- (optional used to create an outline) White.

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

Other- a small glass jar with acetone in it to clean off your nail art brushes.

 

 

Dragonfly Nail Design

Start off with clean nails, with no polish on them, and apply a thin layer of base coat.

Let that dry.

Then polish all of your nails with a teal colored polish, I used Sally Hansen- Insta Dri Matte- Smoldering Teal.

Let that dry as well.

 

 Dragonfly Nail Design

We will first start off with the very simple part, the glitter trail that is left behind by the dragonfly. I know dragonflies don't leave a glitter trail, but I thought it would look pretty as a part of this design and I was really unsure what I could put on the other nails, so we will go with a glitter trail.  

Start off by take a little bit of your glitter polish and pouring some out on a nail mat or a plastic bag, then taking a small detail brush with that glitter on it and make a very big curved line that starts at the index nail and end at the pinky finger nail. I did each part of the line in sections/ one nail at a time. Just make sure the line lines up when you put your finger together.

 

Dragonfly Nail Design

To complete this design we will make the dragonfly on the thumb nail. With all of the designs I do I always like to create an outline with acrylic paint, for this design I first created the outline with white, this part is optional you can always go straight in with nail polish. 

For creating the white outline, first take a clean detail brush with white paint on it and we will make the wings first. Also make sure to leave a little bit of space in between the wings for the body.

Starting on the right side make a teardrop shape near the tip of the nail and then right under that make another teardrop shape for the wings. Repeat this step on the other side for the other part of the wings.

For the body take a few different sized dotting tools to make your dots/ body for the dragonfly, with a sliver polish starting with a large dot and then going small, make a kind of curved line with dots for the body going down the nail.

If you did create a outline with white paint, once that has dried with a small detail brush and a glittery purple (our whatever colored polish you would like), go over the wings with that polish. 

 Dragonfly Nail Design

Once you have your design the way you like apply a topcoat to seal in your design and to make it nice and shinny, I did use a matte teal polish for the base color. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this design, that is nice and simple and great for Spring and Summer.

See you next time for more nail fun!   

Merry Christmas & Happy Holiday's

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday's! It's that time of year for giving, and  receiving gifts and spending time with family and friends. So no matter what Holiday you celebrate, I think each holiday shares the same thing, that spending time with friends and family is the most important part.  
This is also the time of year for bright and colorful nail polish, which at M.M.M, we love bright colors. I love bright colorful glitter polishes and just bright colors in general, which you can find a lot of this time of year. 

For today's Christmas nail design, I wanted to keep it simple with all the Holiday activities and shopping going on, I thought it would be better to keep it simple, that way you are not spending half or all your day doing your nails.

Here is my fiance and I first Christmas tree in our first apartment. The final Christmas nail design.


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

Top coat and base coat- Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat, and Nicole OPI-  3in1- base, top, & strengthener.


Nail art polishes/ strippers- Kiss nail art- silver.

Nail polishes- Snowman rainbow glitter- frosty, NYC- big apple red creme, NYC- Broadway Burgundy Frost, Sinful Color- HD Nails, Revlon- Gold Coin, Loreal- textured polish, pop the bubbles, Loreal- textured polish, too dimensional, and Sinful Color-Let's Meet.

The Skill level for this Christmas/ Holiday nail design is:

 Beginner

This Christmas design is very simple. With a few nails have a very simple design with just glitter on the ring finger, a slanted green and gold design on the pinky nail, and a simple circle shape for the ornament. The only nails that might take a little more time and be a little tricky is the ribbon on the gift and may the tree a little bit.

This is a great design to try out before or after you finish your last minute Christmas shopping. Let's get this bright Christmas nail tutorial started!

1. Start off with a one thin coat of base coat, to help your manicure last longer and to prevent any possible staining.

2. First paint all of your nails a Christmas red. I first painted one coat of a solid red, then painted a red glitter polish over the red. The red glitter is very subtle and kind of hard to see in the photo above.

3. On the ring finger we are keeping it simple with just an accent nail with glitter. You can use the same glitter polish in the photo above, which is a rainbow glitter with big and small chunks of glitter or any kind of glitter you would like that would fit the Christmas theme.

Here is the glitter polish that I used for this design. I really wanted to 

implement this cute snowman glitter polish some way into today's design. 

I got this snowman polish from Meijer in the Christmas area for around $2.00.  

4. Back to the nail tutorial. Next we will be rapping/ making a Christmas gift, by starting off with the ribbon. Take your silver nail art polish/ stripper and draw a vertical line in the middle of the nail.

5. Then draw a horizontal line in the middle of the line you just made.To make this a little bit easier, start at one corner then go to the middle lift up on the brush and repeat on the other side.

6. To finish your gift, we will make the bow. Draw two small line on the corners of the ribbon. Do this on both sides.

7. Then make a curved line at the top to connect the lines to make a bow. Then draw a line under the loops you just made, do this on the other side to finish your bow.

8. Now for the pretty glitter ornament that you find on your Christmas tree. Take your dotting tool or a nail art brush and dip it into a glitter texture polish, make a circle then fill that in. I thought a textured polish would go well for a Christmas ornament; there are ornaments that have the same feel and look as a textured polish.  

9. Then we will make the hook that helps the ornament hang on the tree. Take your silver nail art polish/ stripper and make a small line at the top of the ornament then make a curve at the top. 

10. Another really simple design we will be making is a slanted stripe design on the pinky nail, with Christmas colors. Take your green polish with the side part of the brush, swipe the polish to make a slanted line, you may need to go over this a few times to make it opaque, then do this again with a gold polish right under the green polish (not shown in the photo above.)

11. Now for the final design we will be creating the one decoration that you think of when you think of Christmas: the Christmas tree. Take your thin nail art brush, dipped in green polish and make a triangle at the top then make two curved lines on the sides, then draw more curved lines under that until you get to the bottom of the nail. 

12. To make your tree thinner you can make more thinner curved lines. My tree ended up looking a little bit thicker. Once you have finished your tree we need to make a tree topper, a star. Take the small end of your dotting dipped in yellow polish; make a line down the middle, two on the side, and two on the bottom to make a star. 

For some finishing touches, on the ribbon add a small bit of glitter, by taking a tooth pick and getting just a little bit of glitter and putting it in the middle of the bow. On the ornament take another textured polish color and with the side of the brush swipe a line in the middle, for an optional detail, take your silver nail art polish/ stripper and draw two lines one under and above the line you just made, this is to outline the strip. 

Then for the tree it needs some ornaments, you can either make dots with your dotting tool or take the same glitter polish you used on your ring finger and paint it on the tree. The simplest way to do this is to take a thin nail art brush and follow the outline of the tree.

Once your Christmas/ Holiday nails has dried apply a topcoat. Now you have a perfect nail design for your Holiday get together.

Hope you all have a wonderful Holiday season and a Merry Christmas!

I look forward to creating more fun and bright nail tutorials for all of you in the upcoming new year. 

See you next time for my next design tutorial!