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!