Galaxy Far Away- Galaxy Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today I kind of wanted to recreate a design that I have done before, but change it up a little,that design is the galaxy design. I have been wanting to recreate this design on it's own for a while now, and I final got a chance to do it. I did a similar design like this one, it was a Star Wars design that had a galaxy design in it. For this design it will just be the galaxy no Star Wars, but if you would like to incorporate that in this design for the new movie you can do as well. 

Galaxy Nail Design

Also here is the link to my Star Wars Galaxy design May force be with you- Star Wars Nail Design     

Here is the polishes and nail art tools used for this galaxy design, for this recreation I did use some different and some of the same polishes:

  

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, Zoya- Urban Grunge- Alicia (used on left hand), OPI Holiday 2017- Ornament to Be Together (used on right hand), Zoya- Dream, Zoya- Urban Grunge- Finley, and Cover Girl- Boundless color- Disco dazzle.    

Acrylic paint- white

Nail art tools- Small dotting tool, very small detail brush, makeup sponge  

Other- small cup or jar with water in it to clean of brushes  

Let's start this out of this world nail design! 

 

Galaxy Nail Design, left hand 

Start off with a thin layer of base coat.

As soon as that is dry on all of your finger except your ring finger nail, polish your nails black, then the ring finger nail, polish that with a holo blue polish. On my right hand I polished the ring finger nail with a purple holo polish.   

Once again let that dry, On our thumb, index, middle, and pinky finger nails we will be creating a galaxy. For this you will need a makeup sponge, I cut my sponge into small pieces for this step.

Take a silver holo polish for my left hand I used Zoya- Alicia and my right hand I used OPI- Ornament to Be Together. (This is optional because in the end you really can't tell the different.) Take one of these silver holo polishes, polish it on the sponge then in any random spots sponge on the polish. For example on the middle finger I sponge the silver in the middle and a little on the tip of my nail on the corner. 

Next take another small piece of sponge polish that with the blue holo polish and sponge that on to one of the sides of the silver. For the purple do the same thing but on the other side of the silver.

For each nail it is best to sponge on the polish in a different spot, that way each nail looks different. 

 

 

 Galaxy Nail Design, right hand 

Once that has dried, take a glitter polish that has small and big glitter pieces and polish that on all of your galaxy nails. This will represent some stars.

For the final touch we will paint some stars on to the nails. Take your very small brush with white paint on it and make a few random X's on the nails, not to many, at most I did three to four little X's for stars. Then take a very small dotting tool and make some random dots as well, making sure not to make to many.

 

 

 Galaxy Nail Design,right hand 

   

Galaxy Nail Design, left hand  

Once you have your galaxy design the way you liked, apply a top coat to all of your nails to help protect your nails and make your galaxy nice and shinny.

Hope all of you enjoyed this galaxy nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!    

Snowy Christmas

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday's! Anyone have any fun plains for the holiday's? I'm am just doing the same old same old, just going to visit family near by, no fun trips for me, which would be awesome! Anyways today we will be creating a winter/ snowy Christmas scene,or this could just be a winter scene minus the Christmas trees.

 

 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 

Here are the polishes and nail art tools use for this design: 

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

Nail Polishes- Zoya- Dream, Zoya- Urban Grunge- Alicia, Snowman rainbow glitter- frosty, and Funky Fingers- As If (for the stars in the polish.)

Acrylic paint- white paint

Nail art tools- a thin stripper brush

Other- a glass jar (or a cup) with water in it to clean off your nail art brush, and a toothpick to pick up the glitter.


Let's start this snowy Christmas design! 

  Snow covered Christmas tree on the index finger nail.

As always start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails.

Then paint all of your nails with a holographic or a glittery/ shimmery blue polish, I used Zoya Dream. This polish I thought went perfect for the winter snowy theme because the scattered holo looks like snow. 

 

* For this design we will be creating it on three of the nails, the index, middle, and ring finger nail, the thumb and pinky nail will just stay plain blue, well holo blue. 

Once that has dried, on the tips of the three nails app a sliver holographic or glitter shimmer polish, this is for the snow on the ground. I sponged this on but once I did that I felt like that was not completely necessary, you can just polish the silver part. You may need to go over this three time to be opaque enough.

Once that has dried we will start to make our trees. On the ring and index finger nail we will make one large tree on the sides of the nail. On the middle we will make two trees a medium and a small size tree next to each other.

For all of the trees with white acrylic paint and a stripper brush make a long line, then small arrow lines starting from the top, each smaller line should be just a little bit longer then the last line to form a tree. On each of those lines I put a few smaller lines on the ends to give it kind of a pine tree look to it.

 Snow covered Christmas tree on the ring finger nail.

Once that has dried, the trees on the index and ring finger nail we will make into Christmas trees. This is done by taking a rainbow glitter polish, and with a toothpick picking out the glitter polish, just a few pieces and placing them on the tree like ornaments. 

Now to add the star on top. If you have a glitter polish with stars in it you can place it on top of the tree just like the ornaments, by fishing it out of your polish with a toothpick.  If you don't have a polish with star glitters in it, you can always use the same glitter that you placed on the tree.

 

 Snow covered tress on the middle finger nail.

For your middle finger nail design, you can leave this one with no glitter ornaments or you can have all of your trees be decorated, it is up to you.

 

    Final Snowy Christmas Nail Design

Once everything has tried apply a top coat to protect and seal in your design. 

 

    The Christmas colored polishes on my right hand 

Just for fun on my right hand I decided to keep things simple and just paint my nails with some Christmas colored polishes. If you have trouble painting a design on your other hand this can also be an alternative to doing a design, or if you just fell like doing a design on one hand, and who cares if your nail don't really match that's the fun part about doing your nails!

 

Here are the polishes I used on my right hand Zoya- Amal- Matte Velvet (I applied a glossy top coat for a shinny look.), Zoya- Urban Grunge- Merida, and Zoya- Urban Grunge- Alicia (as an accent nail.)

Hope all of you have a wonderful Holiday/ Christmas! No matter what Holiday you celebrate hope it a great one and filled with bright and fun nails! Also of course enjoy time with all of your families and friends! 

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!