Rubik's Cube

Hey Cuties!
I know I haven't posted in a couple of months, but I hope to get back at in within the next month! I just realized this design wasn't posted when it was promised, so here it is, two months later, and not on a Thursday. Enjoy!

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Happy Almost Friday Cuties!

As promised in Monday’s post, I’m sharing a throwback Thursday design. I’m throwing it back to the 70s with this fun design. It’s a Rubik’s Cube! They’ve changed in colours and designs over the years and can be fun to solve. This design is easy to do, and you can choose any colours you want and paint how ever many squares those colours you want! Here we go!

Tools: 

Nail Polish Colours: Blue, Red, Green, Orange, Yellow, White, Black

Nail Art Brush

Steps: 

1.) Using you nail art brush, paint the outline of the cube (3x3, 4x4 or whatever you want your dimensions to be) in black.

2.) Paint each square as you’d like, or you can follow my example of the colour pattern. It doesn’t matter if you paint outside of the lines, but try to be neat.

3.) Go over the black outline again to cover any parts of the original outline you may have painted over.

Like I said, it’s a super easy design, AND you can make it your own by changing the dimensions and colours. I’ve also added a cleaner version of Monday’s design (Back to Plaid) on my Instagram. Don’t forget to check back regularly for new designs. See you next time!

Back to Plaid

What’s up Cuties?!

I had some personal issues to deal with last week unfortunately, so I wasn’t able to post a design. To make up for it though, there is a design for today (Monday), and I will be throwing it back on Thursday with another design. So today’s design is one for everyone going back to school, or even if you’re not going back to school. It’s simple, it’s classic, it’s plaid! Six lines, four colours, two directions, let’s go!

Tools: 

- Nail Polish Colours: Light Purple, Red, White, Black

- Thin Nail Art Brush

Steps: 

1.) Paint your whole nail purple.

2.) Paint two red vertical lines on the left side of your nail.

3.) Paint two white horizontal lines near the top of your nail.

4.) Paint two yellow vertical lines, one each on the left side of each red line.

See!? It’s a super easy and stylish design for back to school and even mornings on the run, or when you wake up late. When I list colours for these designs, you don’t need to use the same ones I do, I list the colours so you can easily follow the pictures with the written instructions. These are also poorly taken photos, and a poorly done nail, so I will try to do a better one for the next post. Don’t forget to share your pics if you try this or any other of my designs and check back THIS THURSDAY to see a #tbt design!

Shark Week!

Hey Cuties!

I didn’t realize it was Shark Week last week until after I posted Beach Ballin’. So then I decided I was going to do a Shark Week design and post it Thursday. I got busy last week and sort of forgot about the design, so I didn’t do a design until Friday night. By that point, I figured I would wait until today to post. Sorry that was a bit of a rant, but it was worth the wait, even though Shark Week ended yesterday. So here’s a design for next year!

Tools: 

- Nail Polish Colours: Ocean Ombre (Dark to Light Blues), Grey, Red, White, Black

- Nail Art Brush or Toothpick

Steps: 

1.) Using your Ocean Ombre colours, paint two of your nails. (If this is your first time with ombre, check out my Textured Watermelon design)

2.) On your ring finger, paint a “shark fin” in the middle of your finger using your grey nail polish. Paint your pointer finger completely grey.

3.) Paint a wide vertical line half way up your pointer finger using your red nail polish.

4.) Outline the red rectangle with white (curve the corners), and paint small triangles on the inside to create the teeth of the shark.

5.) Using black, paint two small dots for eyes. Using your lightest blue colour, paint the outside of your pointer finger to give the shark a pointed head. You will probably have to re-dot the eyes, and if you’d like (I didn’t), paint a VERY small white dot in one eye (or both) to give the shark a twinkle in his eye, before he goes after his prey! 

In my design, it looks like the shark is sticking out his tongue, but that’s just because I did a really bad job with the teeth. I choose to do three nails, but this can be extended to five easily by painting your pinkie and thumb Ocean Ombre. It’s a fun design and would have been perfect for THIS year’s Shark Week. I like doing designs that spread over multiply nails, so you may see some in the coming weeks, or months, that are designed for multiply nails. As always, enjoy and share a pic of you try any of my designs via Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr. See you soon!

Beach Ballin'

What’s up Cuties?!

Today, I decided to do a beach theme design, since I feel like I haven’t posted enough summer-like designs in the past few weeks. It’s a pretty cool and easy-to-intermediate design, and it helps if you have a steady hand to paint with. But if you don’t have a steady hand, it’s still not too hard to do. Let’s get started!

Tools: 

- Nail Polish Colours: White, Black, Gold, Ocean Blue

- Nail Art Brush or Toothpick

Steps: 

1.) Paint the top quarter of your nails, except your ring finger, Ocean Blue. 

2.) While you wait for that to dry, on your ring finger, you can start to paint the outline of the beach ball with a nail art bush or toothpick. You will want Count how many spaces you will have according to how many different colours you want (in this case six). Finishing with the beach nails, paint the rest of your nails gold. It’s okay to paint a bit over the blue, so it looks rough and uneven, like how to beach meets the ocean.

3.) Create broken black arch lines over your first three nails across the “sand”, to create the appearance of the beach ball bouncing. 

4.) To colour in the beach ball, I just used the normal nail polish brush and CAREFULLY coloured in the spaces. If you don’t have a steady head, feel free to use a nail art brush, or toothpick to colour them in. After all of the spaces are coloured in, go over the black lines again, incase you coloured over some of them.

This is a really cool and fun design for when you’re hitting up the beach, or for the summer months in general! Summer seems to be going by too fast, so for the next few weeks, I’ll be trying to keep posting summer designs! As always keep posted for more designs throughout the week, Share pics if you try out this design and check out Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr for more! 

Animated!

Hello Cuties!

For today’s design, I decided to do something fun, especially for those of you who want to combine your love of cartoons with your love of nail art! 

Tools: 

Nail Polish Colours: Red/Pink, Black, White

Thin Nail Art Brush

Steps: 

1.) Paint your whole nail with your red/pink or base colour of your choice.

2.) Paint the outline of your nail black with the thin nail art brush. You can paint it as thick or thin as you want it to be.

3.) Using your thin nail art brush again, you can either paint a line or a line with a curve (as shown in the picture) along the right side of your nail.

The first time I did this on my own nails, I did a gel top coat with the UV light, and it made it even more cartoonish, compared to using a regular top coat. As always, share a picture if you try this design or any others, and check back next week for a new design!

Starry Night

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, Good Night Cuties!

I realize everybody is reading this at different times of the day, and in different parts of the world, so I chose to greet my readers with many different greetings today. Not much going on within the past week, or this upcoming week, but I’m still working hard on the video tutorials and hope to get those up ASAP! For today’s design, I chose to share one of my favourite, and I guess in a way, signature nail designs. I do this design all the time when I don’t have an idea in mind, and I always get compliments on it. It’s super easy and fun to do, so I figured I’d share it with all of you.

Tools: 

- Nail Polish Colours; Dark Royal Blue, Glittery Gold

Steps: 

1.) Paint four of your nails, on one hand, with the dark royal blue colour.

2.) Using the glittery gold colour, lightly paint over your blue nails, so you can still see the blue underneath. Paint your fifth nail, or your accent nail, completely gold. I doesn’t matter if you can still see some of your nail, because the light reflection off the gold will help hide it some.

Now, I know glitter nail polish is pretty much the worst to get off your nails, so hopefully I will do a post on how to easily get it off some time in the near future. When I’m in a hurry, I will usually just keep rubbing it off with acetone-base nail polish remover. As always, stay posted!

Kissy Fit

Happy Happy Monday Cuties! 

I hope you all had an amazing and relaxing weekend! This new design is a pretty cool one and a bit more glamourous and girlie than I usually do. I went with a pink theme for the design, but you can choose a different theme or colour palette.

Tools: 

- Nail Polish Colours; Light Pink, Medium Pink, Glittery Pink, Red, White, Black          

          (Optional: Silver and Glittery Black)

- Nail Art Brush

Steps: 

1.) Paint your whole nail with the light pink colour.

2.) With the nail art brush, draw two white vertical curved lines, slightly diagonal, to split your nail into thirds. Paint the outside of these lines with your medium pink colour. Go over this pink colour with a glittery pink colour.

3.) With the nail art brush again, draw lips, slanted to match the white lines, in the middle of your nail. Fill in the lips with red.

Optional:

4.) Use silver nail polish to go over the white lines and a glittery black to go over the outlines lips.

This is quite the cute and flirty design and also fun for the summer! As always, share if you try this or previous designs. Don’t forget to follow Cutie Cure on Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr! I hope to get a YouTube channel up and running soon as well! I will be sure to keep you updated! Enjoy!

Textured Watermelon

Hey Cuties!

I just realized that today marks the one month anniversary of when I started this blog! Thank you to all who have read it over the past month and have enjoyed my posts! So for this week’s #manicuremonday, I decided to do a textured watermelon design. I created an ombre effect  by blending the colours together with a makeup sponge. It’s a bit more of a complicated design then I usually post, so I’ll write it out in steps to go along with the picture.

Tools: 

- Nail Polish Colours; Green, Pink, A Blending Pink, A Blending Green, Black

- Makeup Sponge

- Nail Art Brush

Steps: 

1.) Paint the bottom half of your nail pink and wait for it to dry. Next, paint some of your makeup sponge with the same pink and dab it over the already painted pink part of your nail.

2.) Paint a quarter if your nail, above the pink, with the blending pink colour, wait for it to dry and then add another coat with the makeup sponge. Paint the last quarter with your blending green colour, and add another coat with the makeup sponge.

3.) With your main green colour, paint the tip of your nail, with the nail art brush, to create the outside of the watermelon. This does not need a second coat with the sponge. 4.) Using the nail art brush, create seeds on the pink using your black colour nail polish.

Since this is a more complex design than the ones I’ve previously posted, I was planning to do a video tutorial, but I ran into some problems. Hopefully I’ll be able to post a video later this week! As always enjoy and check back next week for another design!

The Floral Touch

Happy Hump Day!

I know I regularly post on Mondays, but it’s been sunny lately (yay!) and I kinda got in the mood to paint my toes…again. This time, I went for an accent on my big toes with a beautiful blue tone as the main colour.

I started by painting a double layer of the blue on all of my toes. For the accent toes, I took a nail art brush and painted a broken curved white line across the upper part of the nail. I then placed a nail art flower sticker on the right side of the curved line. I went over the sticker a few extra times with the top coat to help it stay on the nail and in place.

It’s a simple design, but very cute. I wanted to do a lavender colour as the main colour, but I grabbed this blue tone first. This design could obviously work with any colour you choose, and you could choose a different shape to replace the flower as well. Don’t forget to check back on Monday to see a new design! 

Enjoy!

A Pop of Colour

Hey Cuties! 

I was busy this past week, and didn’t have too much inspiration, so I decided to do a quick tip instead of a design or tutorial. Bright colours are always a part of summer fashion, whether it’s clothes, or in this case, nails. 

Bright nail polish can always make a statement, but here is a tip to add some more pop to it! Before you apply your colour of choice, apply a layer or two of white polish to your nails. It adds a brighter base to your nails than just your nude nail colour. When applying the white colour, make sure it goes on smooth, because your main colour will go on bump and look terrible. If after one coat of the white polish it looks bumping and rough, don’t apply a second, or if you want to and have the time to do so, start over. 

I was planning to play beach volley-ball today, so I decide to do this on my toe nails. Not only adding a pop of colour to my toes, but also to the sand when my toes poke through. Anyways, hope you enjoy and check back next week for another design or tip. And don’t forget to share a pic if you try this or last week’s design (O Canada) with me on Twitter or Instagram!

O Canada

Hey Cuties!

So this is my first post, and my first post for #manicuremonday! This is a design for all of you Canadian Cuties out there who want to celebrate Canada Day tomorrow in style. You don’t have to follow the same colour scheme (white background, red letters) that I did, you can reverse it if you want to. For the red, I used a sparkly Ruby Red colour, and for the white, I used a basic white colour.  For the letters and maple leaf, I used the same colours, but used a long, skinny nail art brush. 

Hope you cuties enjoy it and check back next week for another design!