Chill-in with My Peeps- Easter Nail Desig

Hello everyone! Happy Easter! Well soon to be Easter, I am posting this a few days earlier just before Easter Day. Today we will be creating a design based on the Easter candy, Peeps. When it comes to Peeps they are not really my favorite Easter candy, but I thought it would be cute to make into a nail design, my favorite Easter candy is the Cadbury eggs, the original and the caramel ones. What is your favorite Easter candy? Peeps, Cadbury eggs, jelly beans, chocolate bunnies?   

 

Peeps Easter Nail Design

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used for this Easter treat nail design: 

 

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

Nail polishes- Picture Polish- Salt Water- Nailstorming, OPI- Hello Kitty- My Pal Joey, Sinful Colors-Let's Meet, Zoya Mini- Leslie, Zoya Mini- Eden, and Zoya Mini- Daisy.

Acrylic paint- black and white.

Nail at tools- small and medium dotting tools and a thin detail brush.

Other- small glass jar with a little bit of acetone to clean of your nail art brushes, and a cup of water. 

 

 Peeps Easter Nail Design

Start off by applying a thin layer of base coat to your clean nails.

Let that dry.

Once your base coat has dried polish your thumb, middle and ring finger nail with a light blue polish (I used Picture Polish- Salt Water), then polish your index and pinky finger nail with a light yellow polish (I used Zoya- Daisy.)

Let that dry as well.

 

 Peeps Easter Nail Design

Now we will be creating the cute marshmallow bunny Peeps on our thumb, middle, and ring finger nails. For this design I did first make a outline with white paint for the bunnies then went over that with polish. 

First we will create the one blue bunny on the middle finger nail. Take a detail brush with white paint on it, this step is optional if you first want to make an outline, or you can always go straight in with polish. 

First make a small circle for it's head and then a little bit bigger one for it's body, then make two thick lines on the top of the small circle (it's head) that are rounded at the top for the two ears. Then let that dry and then you can go over that with polish, I used a blue polish ( OPI- My Pal Joey) for the bunny, you will need to go over this at least two times. Once again let that dry. 

Then we will make their little eyes and nose. With a small dotting tool with black paint on it make two dots on it's head for it's eyes and then another dot under that for it's nose. Peeps don't have a mouth, so that is all for their faces.

Next we will make the to smaller Peeps bunnies on the ring finger, for this nail just follow the same steps as we just did for the blue bunny, just make them smaller and two different colors, yellow and pink, and don't forget to make their eyes and nose too. 

    Peeps Easter Nail Design, on the thumb nail

Lastly to finish off our Peeps design we will create half of the bunny on our thumb nail. Once again we will create an outline with white paint. With a detail brush with white paint on it make a circle near the cuticle and then make to long bunny ears from that circle, let that dry. Then go over that with a light purple polish three times (I used Zoya Mini- Leslie.)

Once that is dry we need to make his eyes and nose. With a medium size dotting tool with black paint on it make two eyes and a nose right under those two circles.   

For a final touch I made a few colored dots around the Peeps Bunnies that where the same color as the Peeps; light purple, yellow, pink, and blue.

 

Peeps Easter Nail Design

Once you have your Peeps Bunnies design the way you like (almost ready to eat), apply a top coat to help your yummy design to last thought Easter.

 

  Peeps Easter Nail Design

Hope all of you enjoyed this Peeps Easter nail design!

Happy Easter!  

See you next time for more nail fun!

Paradise Cove- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! As promised I have one more tropical nail design to share with all of you, as summer comes to an end. I did this design a week ago but didn't get around to doing a post, and I thought I would share the back to school design that I did first ( I posted that on Tuesday.)  

 Tropical Island Nail Design

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

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

Polishes- Finger paints- Tiffany imposter, Picture Polish- Salt Water- Nailstorming, and China glaze- white on white. 

Acrylic paints- black, white, blue, red, green, yellow. (basically all the colors.) 

Nail art brushes- thin stripper brush, detail and liner brushes, a flat brush and a fan brush. 

A cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Tropical Island Nail Design

Start off with a thin layer of base coat and then let that dry.

Once your base coat has dried polish your thumb, index and pinky finger nail with a light blue polish ( the polish I used has a subtle holographic glitter in it). For your middle and ring finger nail which is the nails that we will be doing the design, polish those two nails with a slightly darker creme blue polish. 

Let that dry.

*Also once again a lot of the same techniques that we did for the other two nail designs we will be doing again for this design, but of course this is a completely different design.*   

 
Then for the topical design on the middle and ring finger nail. First leave just a little bit of that lighter blue creme polish showing, then on a larger flat brush near the cuticle with paint starting with a slightly lighter and going to a darker blue, we will be making a gradient for the sky. With the fan brush (while the paint is still kind of wet) start to blend those together, you will need to go over this a few time for the sky to be opaque.

Once you have the sky, add just a little bit of light green at the bottom of the sky and also kind of make that blend into the sky as well. 

Under that green make a large rectangle like shape for the water with white paint. 

Then on the tip of the nail and under the white water we just made, we will make a small patch of land. With your liner brush and brown paint, make kind of lumpy line and a curve at the top for a slop, and then fill that in with the brown paint.

 

Tropical Island Nail Design

Next on to the palm trees, that will be peaking out from the sides of our nails. On our middle finger nail on the left side, with a thin stripper brush make three curved lines with a light green paint and then for the small palm leaves starting from a light to dark green (I used three shades of green) make a lot of small line from the larger three curved lines we just made. 

Repeat this step on the ring finger nail just make the palm leaves on the other side of the nail.  

Also for an add touch I added another piece of land that is suppose to be off in the distance. In the middle of the nail, with a detail brush with brown paint on it make another land formation with a curve and the a flat part.      

 

Tropical Island Nail Design

Once you have your tropical nail design the way you like apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last though your tropical vacation.  

Hope all of you enjoined this tropical nail design and enjoy the last bits of summer like weather.

See you next time for more nail fun!

Roar- Leopard Print and Gradient Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating a kind of simple design, leopard print and a gradient. Their really was no reason that I wanted to make this design, other then just for fun (really that's every design) and I was just kind of thinking of a design that future clients of mine might ask for, I know that not everyone would like my cartoon style of nail art, so I decided to create something simple that maybe everyone of any age would like. 

 

    Roar! Leopard Print and Gradient design 

Here are the polishes and tools used in this leopard and gradient design:

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

Nail polishes- Finger paints- Tiffany imposter, Sally Hansen- xtreme wear-Celeb city, OPI- Hello Kitty- My Pal Joey, and Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart.

Optional polishes- these polishes I used on my right had with no gradient. Picture Polish- Salt Water- Nailstorming, and Pretty& Polished- Sea Spray.

Nail art tools- Large dotting tool and a fan brush.

Other- A glass jar with nail polish remover in it to clean of your brushes, a sandwich bag for the gradient to help to blend your polishes, for easier clean up you can put tape around your fingers, or a liquid latex if you have any.    

* This time I didn't use any acrylic paint, just nail polish! (Wow!)

Let's stat this leopard print design, Roar!

 

I decided to put this back into the post,even though I am still not doing the step by step with pictures, but just explaining each step. 

Start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails and to help your polish to last. I used my fave base coat CND Stickey Base.

 

Leopard and gradient design

After your base coat has dried apply a light sky blue to your index, middle, and pinky nail. For this you really only need 1 coat because of the gradient we will be making, but I ended up putting two coats. Then on the thumb and ring finger nail apply a silver polish.

On the nails that we will be doing a gradient, it is best that you put a top coat on first. I learn the hard way on this because if you don't apply a top coat first and let that dry, and you go to do the gradient it will not blend well at all and just smudge. 

Leopard Print Design:

As we let the nails that we just top coated dry, we will create the leopard print on the thumb and pinky nail. Take a large dotting tool with some blue polish on it and make random dots all over the nail, (they don't need to be perfect) also make sure to leave some silver showing. 

Once your blue spots have dried, take the smaller end of your dotting tool with black polish on it and around the blue dots make kind of a C shape around the blue dots. Some of the blue dots you can make two C shapes or one it is up to you. Then in the blank areas, add a few more small black spots. Also make sure to still have some of the silver showing.

The nice part about this design is their is no set way of do this design, their are just a lot of random dots made to look like leopard print, and no leopard has the same print, so each nail can look different.

          Leopard and gradient design close up

Light and Dark Blue Gradient:

* If you want to make the clean up around your finger a little easier, you can use tape and tape around your finger or if you have a liquid latex you can use that as well. I used tape because I don't have any liquid latex. 

 

Now your light blue polish that you top coated has dried. We will be doing a gradient a little bit different this time. Usually we create a gradient with a makeup sponge, but today we will be using a fan brush. 

For me using the fan brush help to blend the colors together much better. When I practice this they blended together perfectly, but then when I went to do this on my nails not so much, I probably should have blended the polishes a little more, by brushing over the nails a few more time with the fan brush, but it still tuned out.  

First you will need to take a sandwich bag and paint a generous amount of the darker blue on one side, and then on the other side paint a generous amount of the same light blue that you polishes all over your nails (it is okay if the colors start to over lap a little.) 

Then take your fan brush and glide over the two colors, you can wipe the brush on the sandwich bag to start to per-blend the colors and to make sure you don't have to much polish on the brush.           

Then with the darker blue near the tip, start to brush the fan brush back and fourth to create a gradient effect.   

Leopard print on other hand

Want to create an even simpler design? On my right hand I just create the leopard print on the thumb and ring finer nail and the index, middle, and pink finer nail I painted a solid color. 

On the index and pinky nail I used Pretty & Polished- Sea Spray and on the middle finger nail I used on of my new polishes (that I will be reviewing, along with some other polishes very soon) Picture Polish's Salt Water.      

Once your leopard and gradient or just leopard and a solid color, or even all leopard print design has dried apply a top coat to seal in your design, as always I used Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat. 

With any design you can use whatever color you would like, you could use a tan and a brown for a more realistic look, pink, green, orange, whatever color you would like.

Feeling a little more wild? Last year I create a Tiger print design as well, that you can create or even add to this design. Here is the link if you would like to check out this design as well.
Blue Tiger- Tiger print design    

Hope all of you enjoyed this leopard print design!

See you next time for more nail fun!