Passover Nail Art

Heres a fun Passover inspired nail design.

1. Start by applying a base coat and then two coats of a sheet pink as the base for all the nails. 

2. On the thumbs, create two small wine glass shapes on each thumb. 

3. One one hand, paint a small bone with a white striper brush on one nail. Make a small line and then two circular ends on each end of the line(this is supposed to be like the shank bone on the seder plate). On another nail on that hand, take a green nail polish and make small blobs with ragged edges(for the lettuce). You can even take your finger tip and smudge the edges a little bit to help it smudge. On the remaining nail, create a small apple shape with a red striper brush(the apple is for the charoset). 

4. On the other hand, choose one nail and create the same thing with the green polish(the bitter herb). Then on another nail, make a small white oval(for the egg). On the other nail, create a small purple circle (the beginning of the onion). 

5. Paint your pink nails a beige color. 

6. Start adding in the details to each nail design. On the lettuce and bitter herbs, add value with different shades of green. On the apple, add a green leave stem. On the onion use w white striper brush and create white circular lines. In the wine glasses, use a red striper brush to create the wine dripping out of the glasses. 

7. Turn the beige on the pinkies into matza by adding white and black lines. 

8. To finish off the design, choose one hand and write passover in hebrew, and matza on the opposite hand. 

Easter Spring Nail Design

This is an Easter/Spring inspired nail design.

1. Decide which two nails will be your bunny and chick, and paint the nails pastel colors of your choice.
2. On the bunny nail, paint a white circular tip, and then take a striper brush and paint two white stripes coming out of the top of the circle.

3. While you wait for the white to dry, start making easter egg designs on the other nails, leaving one out to be the chick. Using the other pastel colors make polk-a-dots and stripes. For example, on the green nail use pink, blue, and purple. On pink, use purple, blue yellow...etc. Use a toothpick or back of a nail art brush to do this.

4. Using a tooth pick, put smaller pink stripes inside of the white stripes for the ears on the bunny. Make a small pink circle for the nose at the middle of the tip of your nail. Take black, and create to small circles for the eyes. Make two little lines coming out of the nose for whiskers. 

5. Start off the chick by painting a yellow circular tip. After that dries, use a white striper brush to create a half egg shape on top of it, so the chick's head look like it's peeking through. Create a circular line following you nail first, then make small triangular tips to look like a cracked egg shell. 

6. Add two small black eyes and a little orange beak. 

I did this easter look on y friend, but another fun spring inspired design is to just paint bunny tips on all of your nails. I did it on myself and it wasn't hard at all. You can use a pastel as the background, or a sheer pink like I did. 

Breakfast At Tiffany's Nails

1. Start off by applying a base coat to all nails.

2. Then, apply a sheer pink nail polish to all the nails as well. 

3. Paint a black tip on all nails except your ring finger.

4. Apply a silver polish with a striping brush at the edge of the black tip, this also fixes any mistakes you may have made when painting on the black tip. 

5. Print out the picture, and cut it around the edges. Apply a thick coat of top coat on top of the ring finger nail. Then, place the picture carefully on top of the nail. Hold it down until it sticks. It may take a while, and its really frustrating, just keep holding it down until it sticks. 

6. Once the picture stays down, place a thick layer of topcoat over it. You may need an extra coat on to,or just in certain sections that won't stay down.

7. Apply a top coat to the rest of the nails as well. 

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)

Zipper Nail Design

This design is really quick to do, and you don't need a lot of colors.

1. Paint all the nails with one or two coats of black nail polish or another base color, until opaque.

2. Using a small paint brush or nail art brush, paint the "zipper" on using a white or silver nail polish. Make small dashed lines going back and forth on opposite sides to create the zipper. On another nail, start off the same way, but then mid way through the nail separate the two sides of the sipper with diagonal lines to create an opened zipper effect. 

3. Fill in the triangle at the tip of the nail, the open part of the zipper, with a color of your choice, with a nail art brush or very carefully with a regular nail polish brush applicator. 

4. You can do this design on as many nail as you want. I chose to do a closed zipper on my ring finger and open on my pointer on my left hand, and the reverse on my right hand. You can finish off the look with a topcoat to protect your design.