You're My Hero!

NO THESE ARE NOT THE AVENGERS!!!!! Omg! Everyone kept saying "Oh, are those the avengers?" No they are not, batman is not an avenger according to my little brother. I did Captain America on my thumb, Iron Man on my pointer finger, Batman on my middle finger, Superman on my ring finger, and Spiderman on my pinky. This design tool a REALLY long time. It was hard. These are the polishes I used:

• White
• Orly, "Haute" (captain America shield red, superman outline and s, Spiderman, and Ironman base.)
• Essie, "Mesmerize Royal" (Center of captain America, base for Superman)
• Stripe Rite skinny brush, gold (ironman accents)
• Black
• Orly skinny brush bright yellow (Ironman eyes, Batman circle, Superman diamond thing)

Happy Memorial Day!

Happy memorial day everybody! Memorial day only comes around once a year so I had to take advantage of it. When else could I do these? Anyway, some people asked why I put the blue heart on my ring finger. It is because everyone should love the soldiers for what they did and it is red white and blue just to be patriotic. So, here is what I used:

• Essie, "Navigate Her" (green base coat)
• White (ring finger base coat)
• Orly, "Haute" (red stripes)
• Orly light blue skinny brush (heart)
• Orly brown skinny brush (camouflage)
• Essie, "Pretty Edgy" (camouflage)
• Essie, "Brooch the Subject" (camouflage)

Steps:
1) Paint "Navigate Her" on all nails except the ring finger.
2) Paint your ring finger white.
3) Use "Pretty Edgy", "Brooch the Subject", and Orly brown skinny brush to create camouflage. Draw thick, short squiggly lines that overlap a little with all of the colors listed.
4) Paint vertical red stripes on the ring finger with Orly "Haute".
5) Add blue heart with Orly light blue skinny brush on top of red stripes.

I scream, You scream, We all scream for ice cream!!!

This design takes some time but looks really nice in the end.


Polishes

tan- Spoiled Show Me Some Skin
brown- Spoiled Pumping Gas
mint green- Essie Mint Candy Apple
pink- Sally Hansen Carribean Coral
yellow- Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow
purple- Sinful Colors (sorry I don't kniw the name)

First paint a triangle shape on your nails with tan. Then add brown stripes to make a criss cross pattern. Next paint the ice cream. You can use whatever colors you want. You can also add drips to make it lool like the ice cream is melting.

Mario Time!

If you have a Wii or a DS you definitely know who Mario is. Even if you don't you still probably do. During some of his games, he has little power ups, tools, and enemies along the way. There a little fuzzy brown dudes that try and get Mario and there are red snapping flowers that eat him. To get past these, he has some tools like the star, the flower, and the mushroom. Those are what these are. They took SOOOOOOOO long. I think it was worth it though. Here is what you need to do this...
- Sally Hansen, barracuda
- Orly, brown skinny brush
- Essie, brooch the subject
- Milani white and black skinny brush
- Black
- White
- Orly, yellow skinny brush
- Orly, haute
- Essie, pretty edgy
- Orly, green skinny brush
- dotting tools
- skinny brushes

1) Paint "Barracuda" on all nails.

THUMB:
1) Use "Brooch the Subject" to paint a long oval in the middle of your thumb.
2) Use brown Orly skinny brush to make 2 dots at the bottom and a triangular shape at the top.
2) Use black and white for eyes. Fitting tools are helpful or this. Put them in the triangular shape at the top.

POINTER FINGER:
1) Paint "Brooch the Subject" on the tip of your nail almost like anfrench manicure.
2) Add rectangles and other irregular shapes to the tan tip with the brown Orly skinny brush.
3) Put "Pretty Edgy" on the nail coming out of the brown and tan area. Then add leaves.
4) Use "Haute" to make a big oval. Then do a smaller yellow one inside it. Inside that, put a white oval with 2 black lines for eyes.

MIDDLE FINGER:
1) Paint a star with yellow Orly skinny brush.
2) Add lines for eyes.

RING FINGER:
1) Paint a green rectangle at the tip of your nail with "pretty edgy"
2) Paint a line coming out of the rectangle with the same color
3) Add leaves to the stem
4) Paint a red heart shape at tip of stem
5) Paint white lines on top edges of heart
6) Add white dots to flower

PINKY:
1) Big red dot with "haute"
2) White dot layered on red dot slightly
3) White dots on red part
4) Black lines for eyes

Teacher Nails

Yes, even our teachers want us to do their nails! It is so much fun! Grace and I literally count down the days until we do it. We love how much they appreciate it because they are more than teachers to us. We always surprise them and they try to guess what it is. One of these teachers loves Barbie. She has some in her class room and even has a shirt with them on it. That is why we chose Barbie nails. For the other teacher we did cows. She lives in Wisconsin and there are tons of cows there. Also, they are super cute!

Ribbit Ribbit!

In science class we are dissecting a frog. Yuck! My hypothesis: the outsides of frogs are cuter than the inside. I have a friend who loves frogs so I am going to dedicate this design to her. I think this design is super cute. Most people at school liked it but there was one boy who thought they were bunnies but what does he know! I would recommend using a darker blue than me. They are a little difficult to see. This is what you will need:

- base color of choice
- Essie, "navigate her."
- white
- black
- Essie, "muchi muchi"
- dotting tools
- skinny brushes

Steps:
1) After base coat, apply a solid color of your choice.
2) Make a semi circle near the tip of you nail.
3) Use big dotting tool dipped in "navigate her" and make 2 circles on top of the semi circle.
4) Add white dots on top of green dots.
5) Make pupils in the eye whites with black dotting tools.
6) use the skinny brush for a smile at the tip of your finger with little "muchi muchi" pink dots on the end.

Mani Parties

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Mini Tuxes

I love this nail design because it is super cute and not to girly.

Polishes

- Sally Hansen White On
- black Milani striper brush


Use a dotting tool for the button and the center of the bow tie.

Sunset

This is probably my favorite design because I love the beach!!

Polishes

- Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow
- Sally Hansen Carribean Coral
- Sally Hansen orange (i dont know its name)
- black Milani striper brush

Tip: To get the effect of a sunset sponge on the base colors with a make-up sponge.

Fly Away, Butterfly

These are hard to explain so use the picture as your guide.

Polishes

- for the base you can use any color but I used an orange by Sally Hansen (i don't know what it is called)
- black Milani stiper brush
- dotting tool dipped in white (i used Sally Hansen White On)

Stormy Weather

This was so easy and can be done in just a few minutes.

Polishes

- Wet N Wild Fantasy Makers black
- NYC Sidewalkers
- Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow
- Sally Hansen Blue Me Away

1. Paint your nails black
2. Paint clouds at the base of your nail (close to the cuticle)
3. On some of your nails piant jagged lines for lightning and on some use a dotting tool dipped in light blue for rain.

Nature Nails

This was really easy and I love that the grass is actually textured! First paint your nails light blue (i used Sally Hansen Blue Me Away). Then paint white clouds (i used my white Milani striper brush). Then paint the tip of your nail green (i used OPI Green-wich Village). Make sure the green is not to thin so that it will drag but not so thick that it won't dry. Before the green dries use a dotting tool or a toothpick to drag through the green polish and make grass like strokes. The key is to
start at the tip of your nail and drag the dotting tool to about the middle of your nail. Do it right and it will look like grass, do it wrong and it will look like you smudged your nail polish.

Mario & Luigi

I'm not even going to try explaing these, but if you want to do them, use the pictures as your guides :)


Polishes:

red- Sally Hansen Rapid Red
green- OPI Green-wich Village (i think)
tan- Spoiled Show Me Some Skin
white- Sally Hansen White On
black outline- black Milani striper brush

Arghhh!!!

These pirate nails are cute and easy to do. For the tan base I used Spoiled Show Me Some Skin, for the red i used Sally Hansen Rapid Red, for the white polka dots I uses a dotting tool dipped in Sally Hansen White on, and for the face I uses my black Milani striper brush. First paint your nails tan. Next paint the lower half (or the upper depending on how you look at it) of your nail red. Then use a dotting tool or a toothpick to add polka dots to the red half of your nail. Now, for the face, use a dotting tool to make two dots for the eyes. Make sure that one dot is larger than the other, for the eye patch. Then make a curved line for the mouth and a straight line, going through the larger dot, for the strap of the eye patch.

Pac Man

There is this one restaurant that my family loves in town. They have good burgers and my little brother loves the grilled cheese. They have 14 TVs hanging on the walls in a row but best of all is the big Pac Man arcade game in back. My dad is a pro at it but I'm not so good. My nails are as close to this game as I could get. A lot of my friends said it would be cool to do cherries on one nail which I should have thought of! The cherries represent how many lives you have left. It would look good but you know I absolutely can't do the same design twice!

You need:
•basic black
•neon yellow
•neon blue
•hot pink
•orange
•bright red
•black skinny brush
•skinny brushes
•dotting tools

Tip:
•for the tentacles of the squids, I would recommend doing a dome shape with a normal brush then black squiggle lines near the bottom. It is easier than doing tentacles to start.

Catch!

My brother is obsessed with sports. Baseball, basketball, wrestling, football, you name it. So, as he was dribbling his basket ball (really loud!!!) and talking about baseball I got this idea. My brother loved these! So anyway, If you want to do these this is what you will need.

Colors:

1. Basic White
2. Dark orange
3. Dark Brown
4. Yellowish Greenish 
5. Basic black
6. Skinny red brush
7. Skinny black brush
8. Skinny white brush

Tools:

1. Dotting Tools
2. Super duper skinny brushes
3. COMPLETE FOCUS! (This may look easy but is actually kind of hard.)

Tip: When doing the 8 on the 8 ball do one big white dot with 2 small black dots inside of it. In those black dots put even smaller white dots.