How to do "Girly Mummies"

Here is a tutorial on how to do these so cute "Girly Mummies" I love these little gals. They are a way cute twist to the traditional Halloween Mummy Nail art.

Last year I did hot pink as a background to the mummies that everyone and their mom was doing.
These were simple to do beside the bow. That was probably the most technical part. If you have fimo bows this would be a cool way to use them. I wanted to give the mummies a vintage look by creating a marble look using the Saran wrap technique. Get Nailed shows you how to do that here.

Well here's how to do them:


Step 1:
Paint your nails a bright pink color

 

 

 

Step 2:

Using a saran wrap technique add a lavender color on top of your pink

 

Step 3:

With a black striper add lines to created a weave-like pattern

 

Step 4:

With a black polish use the polish brush to draw a thick line across the lower part of your nail.

Then with a large dotting tool add large white dots close to each other in the center of the black bands.

 

Step 5:

With a white striper add a small bow at the corner above each band. Add a white dot in the center of each bow.

 

Step 6:

With black polish and a dotting tool add small black dots inside of each white dot to create eyes

 

 



 

Step 7:

With a stirper add an outline to define the bows.

Step 8:
Finally, clean up around the cuticles and add a top coat...and then you're done!

Colors I used:

 

China Glaze "Beauty Within", "Liquid Leather" & "White on White"

Sally Hansen "Lacy Lilac"

So easy Strip Rite "White", "Black"

 

Day 5: Blue nails

 On to Day 5 of Chalkboard Nails Challenge. Today I wanted to try out these awesome cloud nails inspired by nailsbymh on Tumblr. When I first saw these I was in awe. They just looked so cool compared to all the cartoon clouds out there.

Since she didn't have a how to on this design I took on the task of creating a step by step on how I was able to achieve this affect...

Step 1

I used a medium blue in the top of my nail down to about 1/2 of my nail.

 

Step 2

With a lighter blue I painted the other 1/2 of my nail

Sep 3

With the darker color I sponged a cross the middle of the 2 colors to blend.

Step 4

Then I did the same with the lighter color to achieve a better blend

Step 5

Again with a piece of sponge I added white patches to create the clouds.

Step 6

With a dotting tool I used black & gray polish and semi blended it together to create the shadows in the clouds. I left a little of the polish darker to go under the gray.

 

 

And there you have It!

 

 

 







 

 

Colors I used:

 

Pure Ice "French Kiss"

 

OPI "No room for the Blues"

 

Sally Hansen "Wet Cement" & "Black Out"

 

Sinful Colors "Snow me White"

 



Checker Rainbow

I've been wanting to do this design for a while. It is just such a process. I decided to shoe how I did it just to make it an even longer process for me. Ha Ha.

For someone who has the larger checker stamping plates and is good at lining up the stamp to be even then I would suggest that. For those like me who don't have the larger plate and even if they did would drive themselves crazy trying to line it up perfectly then you could do what I did and paint the checks on.

This is what I used:

Dotting Tool
Black Stripe Rite
Black Acrylic paint diluted with water about 50%
Neon Pink, Yellow, Magenta and Turquoise
White Polish

Colors I used:

Ultra Pro fuchsia rage, solar flare, & punkie purple
Santee beach blue
Sinful Colors snow me white

Step 1

Paint your nails white. I like to clean up in between layers.

Step 2

Paint thick diagonal stripes starting from the top corner and shifting to middle and end for each nail.

Step 3

Add a thick turquoise diagonal stripe above the pink, leaving space for the yellow.

Step 4

Add the yellow this time overlapping the pink and turquoise tho create an orange and green and give it a rainbow affect. Then add a little magenta where possible in between the pink and turquoise.

Step 5

With the stiper make thin even lines going down and then across. The thinner the better.

Step 6

With your dotting tool and acrylic paint fill in every other square to create your checker pattern. You can use a tooth pick or the really pointy end of the dotting tool to get into the little corner.
Then wait a few minutes for the black to dry, clean up around the nail, and top off with your fave top coat. Mine is Seche Vite.