WHAT YOU NEED:
- Any color polish for the base color (but try not to use the colors I've listed below!). I used a baby blue.
- Black, opaque white, red, and orange polish (shimmer, creme, glitter, go nuts!)
- Base and top coat
- Dotting tool, bobby pins, pens, pencils, needles, or whatever tool you want to use as a dotting tool!
Helpful Hint: Make sure your polishes are opaque polishes, or one coat wonders. This will help with avoiding super thick layers of polish which would lead to a higher risk of messing up your mani!
LET'S MAKE SOME PENGYS!
1. Start with a base coat, I use INM Clear Bond, then follow with one to two coats of your base color. I used two coats of Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in Babe Blue. (Ignore my lumpy lookin middle nail, I broke it so it's a lil off :(... )
2. Once your base color is COMPLETELY dry, take your black polish, I used Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in Black Out, and paint the pengy body! I just used the polish brush and painted about 2/3 of the way up my nails in the same way I would if I were painting my entire nail. Let the black COMPLETELY DRY before moving on!
3. After your black is dry, take the white polish, I used KleanColor Nail Lacquer in White, and do the same thing but over the black polish. Paint about 1/3 of the way up your nail and let dry. At this point, you can also take your dotting tool or dotting tool-substitute, and dip it in a little bit of the white polish. On each nail, place two little white dots on the black to create the base for the eyes. Let both the white part of the body and the eyes dry.
4. While your white is drying, you can use your dotting tool or dotting tool-substitute and your red polish, I used Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in Red Carpet, to draw little triangle Santa hats on your pengys. This part doesn't have to be perfect at all. As you can tell, I placed my hats in random places on their heads to give it character lol. Let your pengy hats dry completely before moving on.
5. Are your pengy's hats dry? GOOD. Now you can take your dotting tool again and take a some of your white polish to place a little pompom on top of the hats, then make super small dots along the bottom of the hats to give em that cute Santa feel.
6. Then take your orange polish, I used Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in Hot Tamale, and a pen or pencil. Dip your pen/pencil in a little bit of the orange polish and right draw a beak right where the white part of the body meets the black part. To draw a beak, place a dot of orange then GENTLY drag to one side.
7. Grab your dotting tool and your black polish again! Dip the dotting tool to grab a little bit of black polish then place the black dot into the center of the eyes. Be careful of placing the dot too far up/down/to the sides. You can make the black part of the eyes as little or as big as you'd like, you can even make then wonk-eyed or cross-eyed as I've done (on accident) in the past. It is SO IMPORTANT that you let your nails COMPLETELY dry before moving onto the top coat step.
(this is my right hand!!!!)
8. TOP COAT TIME! Once your mani has COMPLETELY DRIED, get yourself a good amount of top coat on your brush and gently brush it over your nails. It's super important that your nails are dry and that you use a thick amount of top coat because if your nails aren't dry, you risk the colors running into one another when you apply the top coat, and if you don't use enough top coat, you risk the brush dragging on your nail and dragging the colors together.
AND YOU'RE DONE! 8 steps isn't that bad right? I was going to find a place for holo glitter, but alas, it did not work out. You don't really even need to be ambidextrous to paint your other hand, but I know tis a struggle for many, so ask someone to paint your other hand, or just do an accent nail! I hope this lil tutorial was simple enough to follow and I hope your pengy nails turned out BEAUTIFUL!
ENJOY and see you tomorrow!
All the (pengy) Love,
Cat <3
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