Cookie Monster Nails

   What I would like to do my first tutorial on is these cookie monster nails I have created. These nails are really easy and fun to do. When I was finished these I fell in love with them. They look allot like professional gel nails but really they aren't. To make these nails it will probably take 1/2 hour max. I will show you step by step to make them easy, fun and very cool.

   Now what you will need:
 For best results I'd use a nail file, and a cuticle pushing back tool. If you don't have one then I suggest you still push back your cuticles with your nails. I find many people say "OW that hurts" when I'm pushing back their cuticles, and I just simply reply no it doesn't. Then they have nothing else to say because it does not hurt. Ok so the next thing I would suggest is toothpicks. I found that while using toothpicks for details works very well. Then of you have a ball point tool, I would use that for eyes. Now for the things you must have to do this tutorial are, obviously several colours of nail polish, such as cookie monster blue, black, white and a base or clear coat polish. If you really wanted to you could also switch up the tutorial by substituting the blue with red to make Elmo.

Now I will move on to preparing. For starters, make sure you have no other nail polish from the last time on your nails. Then I would file for the nails that I want to look professional, and the way you want to file them is getting them as straight as you can at the top. Then just give them a quick rinse and apply your base coat. The base coat is just a clear coat you put on. Once you cover all of these we will be ready to start.

Ok we shall begin... The first step would be applying your cookie monster blue. and remember we are layering so paint the full nail blue and let it dry fully. Next take your white nail polish and your ballpoint tool and add eyes, let those dry. While your waiting you can start with the mouth. To make the mouth you take you're toothpick, dip it in the black nail polish and start drawing on the mouth. These will take a while to dry so I usually start on the blue and white french tips on the rest of the nails. The kind of nail polish I bought that is best for french tips is the white polish that comes with a brush that's shaped for a french tip, and I just found mine at a local drug store like mine was at shoppers drug mart. So they are pretty easy to find and if you don't have one use a toothpick. So just paint on your french tip then underneath paint on the blue outline like i did on the picture at the top of the page, and again just dip the toothpick in the nail polish and just pain away. by the time that's done, the drying should be too. That means you can paint on the pupils. Id use a toothpick for that too just so that the pupils aren't too big. Another thing I think looks cool is when i paint the pupils on so that he looks kind of dizzy looking or cross eyed.

Now we can finally finish. To finish just apply several clear coats and you're done. I hope everyone liked my tutorial and I hope I taught you something that you will use in the future. I would appreciate it if you could pass it on to others and we could educate everyone. So I hope you learned something and I will be back soon to teach you more. BI!