Twilight Cover Nail Design

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One comes out on November 18th. To get ready for the movie, I decided to do a Twilight inspired nail design. On my left hand I put a different book cover design on each finger, and the release date of the movie on my thumb. On my right hand I decided to write out twilight over the different fingers, and again put the date on the thumb.

To start out, paint all nails black on your right and left hand, except for the pointer on your left hand. Paint your left pointer finger with a sheer, nude color.

Twilight Cover (hands holding the apple)
1. Start off with the sheer, nude color.
2. With nail art brush, paint a small black circle at the top of your nail. Paint two diagonal lines connecting from the circle to the base of your nail.

3. Fill in the triangle created by the two lines. Then, paint another two diagonal lines in black, parallel to the first but coming from the middle of the apple instead of the top.

4. Fill in the the circle with a red polish. Fill in the remaining two bare spots with black, as well. 

5. Add detail to the design. I didn't have an opaque, pale skin colored polish, so i mixed together the sheer polish with a little bit of white. I filled in the two "arms" with this color. I also added little bits o black with a detail brush to shade the hands and arms, and the base of the Apple. I also added a little bit of white to highlight the apple. 

New Moon (ruffled red and white tulip)

1. Using small strokes and a nail art brush, start to paint the flower design. Use the cover art as a reference, and follow the ruffled shape. 

2. Again, with the nail art brush and small strokes, add the red detailing to the flower. Stipple the color onto the edges of the petals, ass well as the more detailed lines on the other petals, just like on the cover art. Also, paint the red drop coming from the flower. 

3. Using a green polish with a striper brush, paint on the stem coming from the flower and connecting it to the base of your nail. 

Eclipse (torn red ribbon)

1. Using a nail art brush and red polish, start to draw the red ribbon. Leaving the space where the ribbon is torn and where it folds. 

2. Then, add detail to the ribbon with black for shadows, folds, and rips. Use white to add highlights. Go over the black and white with more red, then repeat and go back with the black and red until you get the detail as close to the cover as you can. 

Breaking Dawn (chess piece)

The Breaking Dawn cover has a white chess piece in the center, a red chess piece in the back, and a checkered chess board backdrop. To simplify the design I just painted on one white chess piece. 

1. I started out by painting a straight vertical white line on my nail. Then made the bottom of the line wider, into more of a triangle shape. I also made one horizontal line at the top of the line to start out the top of the chess piece. 

2. I aded more lines coming from the top of the line to create the look of a chess piece. 

For my thumbs I put the breaking dawn release date. I painted on the "11.18.11" by carefully painting with a white striper brush for the 1's, and a nail art brush for the 8 and the dots. If your 1's come out too think, don't worry, just go over it with black in between the lines. 

For the remaining fingers on my right hand I wrote out "twilight". I put the "T" on my pinky, "wil" on my ring finger, "ig" on my middle finger, and "ht" on my pointer". (this part isn't that difficult to do, but if you mess up like I did don't worry. I, by accident, managed to make the "h" backwards. To fix it i just went over the white line on the wrong side with black, and re drew it in the right place)

(he pictures showing the mirror image of the letters)