Tribal Nail Art Tutorial

It's Friday!! Wohoo, weekend time! Got anything exciting going on? I'm going to the movies with some friends :) 

My disney nails were starting to chip and I just can't stand chipped nails, so I decided to do them again and do another tutorial, lol. This time I decided to do some tribal themed nails.

I really like these, and I hope you do to, try them out and then send me pics to show me! :)

Allright, lets get started. So, to start I did the base coat for all of my nails.

White Matter by Formula X

Dark Matter by Formula X

On a Silver Platter by Essie

I chose to have two accent nails, and then on the tribal design nails, I painted two white stripes down the sides, and then one black stripe down the middle.

Next, I took my color that I chose to use and painted a big X across the nail, and made sure to leave some black and white showing at the top, bottom, and sides of my nails.

Strut Your Stuff by Essie

Then I took my white polish and painted another big X across my nail on top of the blue, but left a thin outline of the blue showing.

Now comes the detail work. Next I took a black nail striper and, on the sides where the white shows, I outlined right next to where the blue starts to show. And then after that, using the striper again, I painted on half triangles inside of the white X on both the top and the bottom.

To finish off this design I took the smallest dotting tool and made an X using black dots across the white X outside of the two half triangles.

And that's all it took for me to do these tribal nails! Just add your topcoat, I use Essie's Good to Go Topcoat, and you are all finished.

All done!! :)

Thanks so much for reading my tutorial, I hope you enjoyed it. Feel free to look around my blog at my other tutorials and if you try any out, I would love to see some pictures. :) If you have any comments or questions be sure to leave them below, and I will make sure to respond. I would love for you to follow my blog and to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @CurlyHairNails. I will be back shortly with another tutorial :))

XOXO Krysti

Disney Themed Nail Art Tutorial ºoº

It's Monday again! Guess I should celebrate by doing another tutorial right?! :) I had a request by one of my lovely best friends to do a Disney themed nail tutorial, and so that is just what I did.

Aren't they just adorable! I did each nail differently to have a variety of designs and I focused on doing Mickey and Minnie mouse. So, if you would like to have these nails too, keep on reading!

Alright, so first I just painted a base coat on all of my nails, these are the colors that I used.

Forever Yummy by Essie

Dark Matter by Formula X

White Matter by Formula X

No Place Like Chrome by Essie

And then I just did one finger at a time and chose different designs for each one, I started with my pinky.

For the pinky I decided to do a design that represented Mickey's outfit. So, I took my black nail polish and made a black tip at the end to represent his legs.

Then I used a white nail striper and made two white lines to represent his pants and the buttons on the pants. For the next nail I kept it really simple and made it kind of like my accent nail. 

Ignite the Night by Essie

Then using the largest nail dotting tool, I made Mickey's head using black polish

For the next finger, I made a bunch of little Minnie Mouse heads, I took the second smallest nail dotting tool and created a bunch of Mickey Mouse heads in black polish. Then using the smallest nail dotting tool I made little red bows on all of the heads.

Now if I had a Minnie head nail, I needed to have Mickey head nail too, so that's what came next. :) I
used white polish and the white dotting tool to create a bunch of Mickey Mouse heads.

And then for the last nail, my thumb, I decided to do a bow to represent Minnie's outfit. This was probably the hardest out of all the nails, the rest are pretty easy. For this nail I took the largest dotting tool and red polish and basically created the bow without the black outline. After I had the shape of the bow, I took my black nail striper and outlined the bow.

Then I just took the smallest dotting tool and put a bunch of white dots inside of the bow to finish it.

And that is all it took for me to create these cute Disney themed nails!

Just added a topcoat, I use Essie's Good to Go topcoat, and I was all finished! :))

Tada! All finished and beautiful! 

Thanks so much for reading my tutorial and I really hope that you try them out yourself. I would love to see pictures if you do. If you have any comments or questions be sure to leave them below and I will be sure to respond to them. Be sure to follow this blog and follow me on both Twitter and Instagram @CurlyHairNails. Feel free to like and share my blog on Facebook and pin any of my blogs on Pinterest too! I will be back shortly with another nail tutorial, I already have my next one in mind :) See you later!!

XOXO Krysti

Lace Nail Design Tutorial!!

Happy Monday everybody!! I decided to start off my week by doing another nail tutorial. And instead of doing a holiday themed one, I chose to do a cute design.

These remind me of a sort of lace design, so that's what I decided to call them, lol. These nails were actually pretty easy to do, they were just time consuming. I believe they took me around an hour to do, but in the end were worth it. Whenever I try out a new nail design, in the beginning I always think that they are going to end up looking really bad because they always look so weird in all of the early steps. So, you just need to remember that if they look strange and not right in the beginning, you just need to keep going because the end product could turn out 100% better than you think they will.

To begin, go ahead and choose the color that you would like to use along with the black and the white. I chose to use Mint Candy Apple by Essie. Then go ahead and paint the base coats on your nails. I chose to have two plain colored nails, and three accent nails. Paint the three accent nails all white. 

Next, you are going to take a black nail polish and on the three accent nails paint a small section from the base of the nail, following the curve, only an inch or so out from the base.

See, it looks really strange and weird right?! I already started the next step in the above picture, I forgot to take a picture before moving on, woops! For that next step, take your color that you chose and paint over the black, but leave a small arched curve at the very base shown.

For the next step, I took a black nail striper and made another single lined curved arch, but left a space between that line and the black at the base of the nail.

Then take a nail dotter, I used the second smallest which in my set is the clear one, and make a few black dots along that line.

Using the same nail dotter, right underneath that line place some white dots following the curve still.

Then, take the black nail striper and make another line on the other side of the white dots, just like the line you made before. Add some black dots along the line just like before using the dotting tool.

Now time to work on the big dots! Take the largest dotting tool and the black polish, and make three or four big dots, keeping them along the curve.

Inside of each of these dots, use the second largest dotting tool and put a dot in the center of each using the color of nail polish you chose. And then inside of that dot, use a smaller dotting tool and make another black dot in the center. 

Now to finish it up! Take the smallest dotting tool and just be creative and put a lot of tiny dots surrounding the big dots and going out to the edge of your nail.

And that is all that it takes to create these amazing creative nails! Just put a top coat on them and you are all finished!!

Thanks so much for taking the time to read my blog post and I hope that you try these nails out yourself! If you do, I would love to see pictures of how they turned out. If you have any comments or questions leave them below and I will be sure to reply to them. Be sure to follow my blog and follow me on Instagram and Twitter @CurlyHairNails :) 

XOXO Krysti