Teddy Love- Valentines

Hello everyone! Happy Valentine's Day or day of love! Today we will be creating a cute teddy bear and hearts Valentine's nail design, the bear we will be creating is not just any bear, if you grew up in the 90's you may remember a certain stuffed toy that was very popular, the TY Beanie Babies. Their is a Valentines bear named Valentino that is and all way will my favorite of the Beanie Babies, due to it being sentimental. So I thought what better way to celebrate V-day then with Valentino teddy bear nails.

    Beanie Baby Valentino Teddy bear (He is welly loved!) and final Valentines nail design.

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

The skill level for this Valentines nail design is:

Intermediate

This design has both some what simple and hard parts to it. Creating the bow, and writing love on the nails can be a little tricky, you just have to be careful. The heart for the most part is simple, even creating Valentino can be easy, depending on your skill level.

Let's start this cute teddy bear, Valentines nail design!

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

1. Apply a base coat to protect your nails. 

2. Once your base coat has dried paint your index, middle, and pinky a light pink (
OPI- Hello Kitty- Look at My Bow!), your ring finger a glitter pink (OPI- Hello Kitty- Starry- Eyed for Dear Daniel) and then for your thumb paint the bottom half a white (China glaze- white on white) and make sure it is curved this is your bears head, then the top half paint this the same light pink as the other nails.

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Finger paints- Cubism Crimson, W2 liner brush

3. Once your base colors have dried, we will first be creating a heart on the index finger nail.

Take your thin nail art brush with red polish on it and make the outline of the heart, then fill that in.

 

 Red acrylic paint and W3 striping brush 

4. Next we will make Valentino's bow that is around his neck on the middle finger nail. I first stared off making the outline with red acrylic paint, then later went over that with red polish. To make your bow take your striping brush with red paint on it and make a small dot, then two loops on each side.

 

 5. Then make two lines going down from the loops you made, and now your outline is done. 

 

 White acrylic paint and W3 stripping brush 

6. This is the little bit tricky part of writing love on your pinky nail. You can write in cursive or print it is up to you. I chose cursive on my left hand and print on my right hand. To write love take your stripping brush with white paint on it, staring with L near the cuticle then finishing with E at the tips of the nails.  

 

 Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart and a large dotting tool

7. Next we will be making the bears himself Valentino on our thumb nail . With your white polish swipe a curve on each side for his ears and fill that in. Then for his eyes with a large doting tool with black polish on it, make two dots for his eyes.

 

 Blue, red, and yellow acrylic paint to make brown. 

8. Now that we have his eyes we will create that chocolate looking nose. For this we need a brown, unless you already have brown paint. If not take a little blue, red, yellow and mix that together to make a brown. Then take your liner brush with brown on it, make an oval shape then fill that in. Now you have a cute Valentino on your thumb nail.

Final Valentines day nail design on the left hand

 

 Revlon- top speed- Hearts of gold fx

For an added touch on the glitter accent nail, you can add a glitter heart polish to it. You do have to fish the heart out to get them, that why I just have three hearts on the nail. Plus these glitter do not like to stay on the nails, they don't seem to like to lay flat on the nail, but I put them on anyways for an added touch.

Once your design has dried apply a top coat to protect and seal in your nails. As always I used Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat. 

   Final Valentines day nail design on the right hand.

Here is the design that I did on my right hand, this is the hand that I wrote love in print. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this Valentino teddy bear/ Valentine's day nail design and have a Happy Valentine's day!

See you next time for nail fun! 

It Smells Like Snow!- Winter Design

Hello everyone! It's that time of year again when it starts to snow, this can either be a good or bad thing. I personal don't care for the snow, but it does look pretty, sometimes. One place that snowflakes always look pretty is on your nails. As you may have guessed this week we will be creating a pretty snowflake design.

Final snowflake nail design 

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

The skill level for this snowflake nail design is:

Beginner Basic

This design is great for beginners. It is simple and easy to create, all you really need to do is try to keep a steady hand when drawing the snowflakes.  

Let's start this winter snowflake nail design!

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

1. Start off with a base coat to protect your nails.

Polish used Zoya's Dream

2. Then paint all of your nails with a shimmer blue polish. I used the very beautiful Dream by Zoya, this color is so amazing and shinny, and I that it went very well with this design. 

White acrylic paint and a small thin nail art brush.

3. Next we will be making the snowflakes, we will make a large one and a small one. Depending on the size of your nails, you can make more or less snowflakes. Start off with a thin nail art brush dipped into white paint and make a star shape, like the photo above. 

4. Now we will start to make the snowflake look like a snowflake. For this snowflake we will make two arrows on each line of the star shape.

5. Once you have finished your first snowflake it should like the photo above. Next we will make half of a snowflake near the tip of the nail. With your thin nail art bush dipped into white make three lines, then two arrow shapes on top of the lines. 

Final nail design. Polish used for dots Color Club Halo's- Harp on,

 and medium and regular size dotting tool 

6. For the final touch on your snowflake nails, we will add dots for the small snowflakes. Take a medium dotting tool dipped into a silver holographic polish and make dots on some of the empty space around your snowflake. Then with the regular or small doting tool repeat this step again.

                                                  

Top coat used, - Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat 

Once your snowflake nail design has dried apply a top coat, to seal in your pretty design.

   Final snowflake nail design

With all snowflakes they all look different, so for this design on each nail you can change up how you make your snowflakes, some of them I kept the same and just changed the size,and other I changed how they looked. It's all up to you on how you want your snowflakes to look. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this pretty snowflake nail design!

See you next time for more fun and bright nail tutorials!    

PlayStation

Hello everyone! Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving (if you celebrate it) Also sorry I did not do a post last week. I had the design all ready to go, I just didn't have the tutorial post typed up. Unfortunately I started to not feel well, so I didn't get a chance to finish typing the post.

Anyways for this week I decide to do another nerdy nail design, PlayStation nails. Last year I did a Little Big Planet/ Sackboy nail design and that post has got a lot of view, So I thought that maybe all of you would be interested in a PlayStation nail design. 

         PlayStation nail design with the PS4 controller.

This is the area that I usually put the nail polishes and tool that we will need to use to create this design, but I thought that I would try something a little bit different and put the polishes and tools used right by the photo. We will see which one works out better having the polishes and tools in the beginning or as we go. 

The skill level for this PlayStation nail design is:

    Beginner

For the most part this design is simple and easy to create. Due to it just consisting of simple shapes. The only part that might be a little bit hared to create is the PlayStation logo on the thumb nail. 

Let's start this fun PlayStation nail design!

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

1. Apply a base coat to protect your nails.

 Polished used Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart

 2. Paint all of your nails black. 

White Acrylic paint and a small slanted nail art brush.

3. Then we will be creating all the main buttons on the PlayStation controller, the X, O, triangle and square button. First we need to make the outline the the buttons with white to make sure that the color will show over the black background. Take your thin nail art brush dipped into white paint and make a X on the index nail, a O on the middle finger nail, a triangle on the ring finger nail, and a square on the pinky finger nail.

4. As we let the buttons on the other nails dry we will make the PlayStation logo on the thumb nail. For the logo I forgot to first take a photo of the P then the S, so in the photo above it is almost done. For the logo first start off with your thin nail art brush dipped into white paint and paint a large P, then make a S like shape around the P. 

 

 Acrylic Paints used blue, red, green, white & red mixed together to make pink.

5. Now that the white outline of the buttons has dried, we can go over the white with the colors of the buttons. For the X go over that with a blue, the O a red, the triangle with green, then the square with a pink, if you don't have a pink and are using paint you can mix red a white together to get the pink you want.   

 Final PlayStation nail design

For some final touches on the PlayStation logo on the thumb nail, we will add a few black lines. With a clean thin nail art brush draw a line down the middle of the P, so the P is not attached and on the other side of the S draw a line on that as well. Then at the bottom of the P draw a line to make the P slanted at the bottom.

  

Then if needed to fix some of the buttons, you can go over it with a little bit of black paint. Like the O was it little off, so I just went over some of the O with black paint to make it all the same shape. 

 Top coat used Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Once your PlayStation nails have dried apply a top coat to seal in your design.    

Hope all of you enjoyed this PlayStation nail design! This is a great way to show your love of gaming or as always just a fun design to create on your nails.

Also if you like this design and have not checked out the Little Big Planet Sackboy design, click the link below to give that design a try as well.
Little Big Planet- Sackboy Design  

See you next time for more fun nail tutorial!   

 

Pika- Pika- Pikachu/ Pokemon Design

Hello everyone! Today on the M.M.M blog we will be creating Poke balls and Pikachu nails. Their really is no reason that I wanted to create this design for all of you, other then just for fun. My hubby and I did just recently went to an anime convention, that was why I didn't post a few weeks ago and even though that is over with I still thought it would be cool to make Pokemon themed nails. I am personally not a big anime fan, I pretty much just like Pokemon and a little bit of Hello Kitty. 

 Pika- Pika, Pokemon/ Pikcahu nail design

Here are the nail polishes and nail tools used for this Pikachu/ Poke ball design:

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

Nail polishes- Sinful Color-Let's Meet, Finger paints- Cubism Crimson, and China glaze- white on white. 

Nail art polish-  Kiss nail art stripper- Black.

Acrylic paint- black and white.

Nail art brushes- thin slanted nail brush, and small thin nail brush.

Nail art tools- small glass jar with nail polish remove in it, and a cup of water to clean your brushes.

The Skill level for this Pikachu/ Poke ball nail design is:

Beginner to Intermediate

This design has some simple elements to it, the Poke balls are for the most part simple to make. Pikcahu can be a little bit harder to make due to the small parts of his face. Other then that their is not that many small details to this design, which makes it a little bit easier to create. That is why this design is both for beginner and for more intermediate level nail artist.

Let's start this Pickachu / Poke ball nail design! Pika- Pika!!

1. Start off with a base coat to protect your nails.

2. First we will make the shape of Pikachu's head. With a bright yellow nail polish make a curved line near the middle of the nail, then fill in the rest to the nail tip.

3. The other nails we will make Poke balls. Paint the top part with a red nail polish, and then the bottom near the nail tip with a white nail polish.  For the top part you can first swipe the polish across the nail then fill in the top. It is okay if the red and white polish do not look perfectly lined, we will fix that later.

4. Now back to Pikachu. We will add his ears, just take the brush that came with the nail polish and swipe on the sides of his head two ears. 

5. Next we will make Pikachu's face. With a thin nail art brush dipped into black paint start off by making kind of an outline of his face, his eyes, nose, and mouth. 

6. Once you have the outline of Pikcahu's face, with your black paint make Pikachu's eyes bigger and if need you can make his nose a little bit bigger.

7. For Pikachu's ears he has black at the tips. With a thin nail art brush dipped into black paint make a triangle on the tip of each ear, then fill that in.

8. Now to add Pikachu's red checks and a cute tongue sticking out. Take your thin nail art brush dipped into a red nail polish (I found that using acrylic paint near the tips of the nail would wear away faster, and that it is better to use polish.) and make a circle on each side of his face. Then just swipe a small line near his mouth for the tongue.

9. Back to the Poke balls, we need to add a black line in the middle of the red and white. Take a black nail art stripping polish, starting from one side of the nail then going to the middle, then on the other side met the line you just made. Make this line some what thick, you may need to go over this a few times to make it thick enough. 

10. Next we will make the center part of the Poke ball. Take a thin nail art brush dipped into black paint and make a small circle in the middle of the line you made.

 Final Pikachu and Poke Ball nail design

11. Once the black circle has dried, take your clean thin nail art brush dipped into white paint and make a smaller circle in the middle of the black circle. 

Then to finish Pikcahu, we just need to add the white circles in his eyes. Take your thin nail art brush dipped into white paint and just dot the brush on the black circles for his eyes.   

 Pikachu nail design with a big Poke ball

Once your cute Pikcahu and Poke balls nails have dried apply a top coat to seal in your design.

Pikachu and Poke Ball nail design

Which Pokemon is your favorite? My favorite has always been Pikachu ever since Pokemon was introduced to America from Japan because I thought he was one of the cutest Pokemon. 

With this nail design you can always change the Pokemon to whichever Pokemon that is your favorite, or just keep Pikachu.

Hope all of you enjoyed this Pikachu/ Poke ball nail!

See you next time for more fun tutorials!