A Polished Bookworm

For this design you will need:

-base and top coat

-nail brushes 

-clean up materials 

-dotting tools (optional)

-green, red, white, and black polish

 

Step one: Use base coat and paint your nails white or a light color

Step two: Paint about half of your nail red, from middle to your tip.

Step three: Use your green for a design on the red, I just did dots, but you can do whatever you want.

Step four: Paint a black loop on the top of the present for a bow.

For this design you will need:

-base and top coat

-nail art brush

-dotting tool

-white and black polish

- your choice of 2-6 polishes

Step one: use base coat and paint your nails white or a light color

Step two: paint a black curvy line going from left to right, all the way across your nail

Step three: take a small dotting tool and make a dot touching the black line, then another one touching that dot. It should look like a bulb, you may have to touch it up a little. Keep going with all of your colors. Then clean up and apply top coat!

 Step one: Paint your nails red

 Step two: Set out your striping tape in this design. Try to make them not straight lines up and down, but more curved like I did.

 Step three: Make sure they are all secure then paint green.

 Step four: While the polish is still wet, take of the striping tape. Then finish with clean up and top coat!

 (Essie A Cut Above is so sparkly! You can actually see the light in the photo!)

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

 Step one: Paint your entire nail red

 Step two: Use a brush or black stripper to make a very thick black line going across your nail!

 Step three: Take your brush and make a rectangle over the right side of the black line.

 Step four: Make a small line with silver polish threw the right part of the rectangle. Clean up and finish with top coat!

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

 Step one: Paint your nails a nude or white color

 Step two: Make the outline of a leaf on your nail. I basically just did two curved zig zag lines and connected them!

 Step three: Draw another outline close, but not touching the other outline.

 Step four: Fill them in!

 Step five: Take a medium sized dotting tool and make 3 connecting dots in the middle of the two leaves. Then clean up and put on top coat!

Thank you for reading and have a great day!

 Step one: Paint your nails with a nude polish

 Step two: Take your brown and paint a half circle at the bottom of your nails

 Step three: Take a bigger dotting tool and make a circle on top of the half circle, connecting them as you do.

 Step four: Make a red dot at the bottom of the reindeer's head

 Step five: Take your white and make two dots right next to each other for the eyes

 Step six: Take a smaller dotting tools and make black dots in the white ones.

 Step seven: Take your nail art pen and draw two lines coming from the head, going up.

 Step eight: Try lines coming out of the original lines. Finish up with cleaning up and top coat!

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

 Step one: Paint your nails a light nude color

Step two: Paint a red triangle on your nails like the picture above.

Step three: Use your dotting tool and make small intersecting circle on the bottom of the red triangle.

Step four: Make a dot on the top of the triangle. Clean up and use top coat, then your done.

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

 Step one: Pick at least 2 christmas colored polishes. The best colors are red, green, a nude, or gold.

 Step two: Paint your nails white or a light nude.

Step three: Drop some polish in the cup like a normal design.

 Step three: Put a drop of polish in a different part of the water

Step four: Continue dropping polish in the water, they can overlap if you want to.

 Step five: Continue with the drops until you have filled up the water.

Step six: Take your toothpick and swirl the polish around. If you can avoid the first drop, but it doesn't make that much of a difference if you don't.

Step seven: Dip your nail into the part of the design you like best, then take a toothpick or q-tip and clean up the excess polish on the water. Keep your finger in while doing that.

 Step eight: Carefully pull your finger out of the water.

Step nine: Clean up your finger with a q-tip and acetone. Then use a brush and acetone for your cuticles. Add top coat and your done!

Thanks for reading and have a great day! :)