Mandalorian and Grogu Nail Design

Hello everyone! Sorry it has been a while since I have posted, there has been a lot going on. A couple of months ago I got into a bad car accident that totaled my car. I was driving to work and was very close to work and some guy turned right into my Herbie, I was hurt and my dream car was destroyed. 😭 I was out of work for a week and a few days, I am much better now, but that was the most terrifying thing that has ever happened. I just wish people would just pay attention and slow down, I am far from a perfect diver, but what happened could have been avoided if that guy was paying attention. 

Also last month we also moved into a new home, are last apartment we had been at for a long time and it was time to go, it was old and the place did not want to do updates. Anyways now things are better and we our now settling in our new place. This also means soon I will have a room that I can do my nails in and no longer have to do them in the kitchen like I have been for years now. Anyway today we will be creating a Mandalorian and Grogu nail design to celebrate the new movie that has been in theaters since May 22. I just got a chance to create and design and I thought it is still ok to share, the movie is still in theaters as of typing this post. 

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

Base and Top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and CND Super Shiney Top Coat.

Polishes- Glam Polish-Mando Collection-The Child, OPI Holiday 2017- Ornament to Be Together, and Starrily- Northen Lights- Geomagnetic Storm Sights- Magnetic. 

Acrylic paint- White, black, mix black and white to make two shades of grey, green (mix green and white to make a light green), brown, and peach. 

Nail art brushes- Thin striper, detail, and linear brush, and a small dotting tool.

Other- water to clean off your nail art brushes. 

Apply a top coat to clean dry nails, let that dry.

Polishes-

Thumb- a light green (Glam Polish-Mando Collection-The Child, Had to use the Grogu polish)

Index, middle, and pinky nails- a mutichrome polish ( Starrily- Northen Lights- Geomagnetic Storm Sights- Magnetic) 

Ring finger nail- a silver polish (OPI- Ornament to Be Together)

Let that dry.

Galaxy Nails, on the Index, Middle and Ring Finger Nails: 

Let's star with the easy part on the nails that you polished with a mutlichrome polish, this is like a galaxy in a bottle and a easy way to have galaxy nails.To make them look more like a galaxy we just need to add star. To make the bigger stars, take a thin striper brush with white paint on it and make two large stars, by making a cross shape and then with a dotting tool with white paint on it make a dot in the center. 

With the smaller end of the dotting tool make small dots all around the nails. Then you have a simple galaxy nail design. 

Mandalorian on the Ring Finger Nail: 

Now on to the harder nails, let's create Mando on the ring finger nail. First if you don't have a light and dark grey, you can mix more white and a very small amount of black for the grey color, then mix a little more black in to your light grey to make a little bit darker grey, keep these to separate. 

To make Mando's helmet outline, take a linear brush with a light grey paint near the cuticle make a half oval shape and then a long rectangle under that half oval, fill that in with the light grey, then make two line down the nail and once you get near the tip of then nails square off each side for the bottom of the of his helmet. 

Next we will make his eyes, take a detail brush with black paint on it and make a thick black line going across his helmet, then down the sides make tow slanted lines, fill in that area with black, then going down the center make a thick black line, where I guess his mouth would be? 

On the lower corner of his helmet make two half triangles shapes on both sides, with a striper brush with the darker grey paint on it.  

Next we will outline Mano's helmet, take a striper brush with dark grey paint on it then outline the outer part of his helmet, on the top part of the helmet make two lines going down the center, then outline the rectangle above his eyes. 

Grogu on the Thumb Nail:

Last by far form lest is our favorite green dude, Grogu, Baby Yoda, The Child, on the thumb nail. For Grogu's body color if you don't have a light green mix mainly white and a little bit of green to make very light green. 

In the middle of the nail make an oval shape for Grogu's head fill that in, then make two ears on the side of his head.  

For the center part of his ears take a detail brush with a peach colored paint on it and make a triangle shape in the ears.

For his face first make his nose, by making a small curve with a striper brush with dark green paint on it (I made his nose first to know where to place everything else, like his eyes). Then make a small curve under the nose for his little smile. Then make a few lines on his forehead for his little wrinkles. 

Next make two small ovals for his eyes and fill that in with black paint. Then make two smaller white dots for his pupils.

For part of his rope, make a small rectangle with brown paint under his head and fill that in, and then take that peach color paint and make a small line in the middle of his robe. We are just going to make this part of his rope to kind of keep it simple and to have a floating Groug head. 

For the final touch you can also outline your Grogu with a dark green paint. 

Once your nails are all ready to see the new Mando and Grogu movie, apply a top coat to seal in your nails and to make them last. 

Practice version of Mando and Grogu

Hope all of you enjoyed this Mando and Grogu nail design along with the movie, we did see the movie, my hubby and I on Friday May 22. I liked the movie I am a Grogu fan and I loved every scene that he was in he is so cute. I do recommend seeing Mando and Grogu in theaters and was a good movie for any long time Star Wars fans our just Grogu fans. 

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Ocean Gradient- Blue Gradient Nails

Hello everyone! Today on the blog I felt like do another gradient, that is kind of summer like an ocean colored gradient. The polishes from the Starrily Northern Light collection were just calling to me to create an ocean like gradient, with a touch of gold glitter in the gradient, or that I just thought it would look pretty. Since trying the a liquid latex around my finger for gradients, it has been so much easier to do and I feel like I have gotten much better at gradients, if you are not allergic to latex and are having trouble with gradients this is a great way to improve on them, it's a game changer. 

Also if you if you have seen my other post this color combo might look a little familiar, I did create a tropical design this summer with a similar color palette, the dark blue was near the cuticle and the light was near the tips of the nails. If you missed that post and would like to check that out here is the link ocean-view-tropical-nail-design

Anyways back to the creating the nail gradient. Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this ocean gradient.

Base and Top coat- Not shown, I have been trying out the Orly Bonder Base, 

The CND Stickey base has been a go to for many years. Top coat- CND Super Shiney Top Coat.

Polishes- Starrily- Northen Lights- Polar Lights- Magnetic, Starrily- Northen Lights- Polar Lights- Magnetic, and Starrily- Northen Lights- Golden Starlight. 

Other- Makeup sponge for gradients and Liquid latex. 

Apply a top coat to clean dry nails, let that dry.

Polish all the nails with a light blue/ shimmer (Starrily- Polar Lights)

Let that dry.

Once your base polish has dried, we can create the gradient. First we need to apply a liquid around the fingers to help with clean up and to make doing gradients much easier. 

For the gradient part take a makeup sponge and first polish your dark blue (Starritly- Oceanic Moonlight) and then slightly over lapping the polish the same color you used as your base color the light blue/ green (Starrily- Polar Lights.)

Then dab the sponge on to each nail, you will need to repeat this step at least two times to be opaque.  

Once you have finished your gradient peel off your liquid latex with some tweezers. 

For an added touch you can apply a gold reflective polish (Starrily- Golden Starlight.) This polish I did only apply one coat, which made it all little to subtle and I wish I would have a least applied two coat so it would be more visible. Above is a photo that I got the gold to show at  a certain angle. 

Once you are happy with your ocean gradient, apply a top coat to add a shine and to help your nails last.

Hope all of you enjoy this ocean blue gradient nails.

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Ocean View- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we will be creating another tropical nail design. I especially wanted to create this design because my hubby and I are getting ready to go to Hawaii very soon for our 10 year anniversary. We got married on the Island of Oahu and 10 years later we are finally go back, and I am very excited! Anyways today we are creating an ocean view tropical nail design, unfortunately we will not be having an ocean view from are hotel, but that ok no one goes to Hawaii to stay in the hotel always, but it still would be nice to have. 

Here are the polish and nail art tools used to create this tropical nail design: 

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and CND Super Shiney Top Coat. 

Polish- Starrily- Northen Lights- Polar Lights- Magnetic, Starritly- Northen Lights- Oceanic Moonlight- Magnetic, Holo Taco- Toppers- Scattered, and Holo Taco- Toppers- Flakie.

Acyclic paint- black

Nail art tools- thin striper and linear brush.

Other- makeup sponge for creating gradients and water to clean off your nail art brushes. 

Optional item- Liquid Latex to make clean up easier (Holo Taco Protective Peel) 

Apply a top coat to clean dry nails, let that dry.

Polish on all of the nails, we will be using a lighter polish a light blue/ green shimmer polish (Starrily- Polar Lights.) It is best to start off with a light colored base and then use darker colors.

For this nail design I will not be doing step by step because I have created a lot of tropical designs that have palm trees and a gradient, so I feel like their is no need to repeat my self. 

To help to make clean up easy you can put liquid latex (as long as you are not allergic) around your nails. Once it has dried we can start the gradient. 

For the gradient part take a makeup sponge and first polish your dark blue (Starritly- Oceanic Moonlight) and then slightly over lapping the polish the same color you used as your base color the light blue/ green (Starrily- Polar Lights.)

Then dab the sponge on to each nail, you will need to repeat the last step for each nail, also you will need to go over the nails at least two times to be opaque. 

Once you have finished your gradient peel off your liquid latex with some tweezers. 

Also on the index and pink you can add some glitter to your ocean, by first polishing a scattered holo polish on the dark blue and a little bit on the light blue, then for even more glitter take a flakie holo and polish that on the dark blue part of the gradient. 

On the middle and ring finger nail we will create a tropical scene on the middle nail make a small island or a half oval on the left side of the nail and then make a palm tree.

On the ring finger nail make another island or a half oval on the right side of the nail and then make another palm tree.

Lastly we will create another tropical scene on the thumb nail. Make a long thick line near the cuticle and two short lines from that thicker line going to the side of the nail. Then make a large plan tree and lastly make a few lines from the palm tree for grass.

Once your tropical nails are ready for your vacation, apply a top coat to add a shine and for your design to last through your island adventures.

Here is the practice version.

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical ocean view nail design and hope that everyone is having a good start to the summer, it has been a hot one!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Starrily Northern Lights Collection Review

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we will be taking a look at the brand Starrily, and their Northern Lights Collection that is new for Spring 2025. This came out during the spring time, I don't think it is actually a spring collection, for some reason whee I think of the Northern Lights I think of winter time. Anyways Starrily is an Indie brand nail polish company that can only be purchased online. This is the first time that I have tried out the brand Starrily, I have been pretty happy with Indie brand polish so I thought I would give them a try. 

This collection has six polishes, with mainly magnetic polishes, one shimmer, and gold reflective  topper. The magnet you do have to purchase separately or you can use any brands magnet as long as it is for nails. I used a nail polish magnet that I already had from Holo Taco. 

Each polish comes in an individual cartoon with the nice Starrily design on it. 

Here it a view of the box the front and both sides of the box.

All of the Polishes in the Northern Lights Collection

Let's take a look at the polishes in this collection. 

Also I took the photos on a black and a white background because sometime I feel like the color shift shows different on each background. 

First we will take a look at Geomagnetic Storm Sights this is a mutichrome, magnetic polish that has a teal, green, and purple shift, along with a gold reflective glitters. 

In the photos I tried to create the cat eye look with the magnet on the index and ring finger nail. On the thumb, middle and pink I tried to create the velvet style with the magnet. I do feel like the cat eye was very subtle, I may have just not held the magnet long enough. 

The cat eye is when you have the magnet place under the finger or over the nail to create a line on the nail. Velvet is when you have the magnet on the side of the nails and the magnet pushes the magnet particles to the surface.

Geomagnetic Storm Sights has a good formula it was opaque for me in three coats, for magnetic polish it is best to apply three coats, two for opacity and a third for the full magnet effect. Also I magnetize each layer. 

Geomagnetic Storm Sights is very pretty and really looks like the Northern Lights on the nails. 

Geomagnetic-Storm-Sights $16 USD 

 

Second we will take a look at Ethereal Nights this shimmer polish with a black base and green, teal and blue colored shimmer. On the website this polish is said to be inspired by the lush green forest where you can see the Auroras. 

This polish is not magnetic. The green shimmer stand out the most with this polish and the blue is very subtle and really only shows when your nails are close to the light, like the photo above. 

Ethereal Nights has a good formula, it was kind of sheer on the first coat, I think due to the shimmers needing to show. After three coats this polish did reach full opacity. This polish is also very pretty. 

Ethereal-Nights $16 USD 

 

Third we have Oceanic Moonlight this is a sapphire blue shimmer magnetic polish that has a silver magnetic effect, that when you use the magnet it gives a light blue shift to the nails. 

In the photo's above it is hard to see the magnetic effect, I did try what the Starrily website had said 30 seconds per coat and 1 minute for the final layer and I had the magnet under the nail while polishing. I do feel like in person it is somewhat earlier to see the magnetic effect. The only photo that you can really see the magnet effect somewhat is the thumb nail photo.

    

Oceanic Moonlight has a good formula and was actual opaque in two coat, for the magnetic effect I did apply three coat to do the magnet. This polish is ver pretty and does remind me of the ocean. 

Oceanic-Moonlight $16USD 

 

Fourth we have Polar Lights this is another magnetic, shimmer polish that has a blue, teal, cyan/green color shift. When you use the magnet you can see more of a sliver shift to it, which you can see in the photo's above (you can really see this on the pinky nail.) This polish is suppose to represent the aurora over an icy landscape. 

Polar Lights has a good formula, this polish did take three coat to be opaque because of it being a lighter color, and with magnet polish I prefer to do three coats anyways to try and get that magnet effect. 

Polar-Lights $16USD 

Fifth we have Golden Starlight this is a topper that I wore over Ethereal Nights and a black polish, this polish is described as a gold reflective topper with a silver shimmer in some lights. 

Golden Starlight has a good formula for a topper, in the bottle and in real life this polish looks wow so shinny and sparkly, in the photos above I used my usually set up with my SLR and photographer light, I just could not capture the true beauty of this polish with the SLR. 

With my cellphone camera and my hand held low to the light I was able to capture the glow from this gold reflective polish. This trooper it seems like it is best in bright light but your hand had to be held low to the light. 

Golden-Starlight  $16 USD

Lastly we have Aurora Ignite this is a magnetic polish that is described as a deep red base with green, gold and red shifting shimmer. In some light this polish looks brown or a burgundy as well and with the color with a red base and green shift this polish look Christmas like. This is suppose to represent how the Aurora sometimes can look like a fiery red in the sky. 

Aurora Ignite has a good formula as well this was opaque in two coats, I did do a third for the magnetic effect. The magnetic effect turned out the best on this on I feel, this one I applied two coast of polish for full coverage and the the third coat I magnetized for 30 seconds and it showed up the best. 

So I feel like the method was the best way to magnetize, I had tried three different ways.

Aurora-Ignite $16 USD

In conclusion this collection is very pretty and I did really like the Starrily polishes for this being the first time using this brand. I am not really sure why they released a Northern Lights collection  for spring time, when I think of Northern Lights I think of the winter time, which is actually is the best time to see them (I looked it up.) I do feel like they did a  great job with the theme of this collection this definitely feels like a Northern Light collection with the colors and the topper looking like stars. 

When it is winter or colder I will revisit these and see if I can get the magnetic effect to show up better on all of the polishes. Over all I do recommend these polishes I am just personally now ready for bright colored polishes.

Here is the link to the collection on Starrily website. https://www.starrily.com/products/northern-lights-collection $90 USD 

Hope all of you enjoyed this Starrily Northern Light Collection review! 

Next we have a bright summer collection that I am very excited for! 🌴🌺

See you next time for more nail fun!