COOKIE MONSTER NAILS //

My little one has arrived hence the hiatus. Been too tired and busy to even switch the laptop on! Well here's what I did on my break, Cookie monster nails!! I've been meaning to do these nails for a while now but never did have the time or confidence to do some so here is my take on the many other tutorials available out there. Enjoy my Cookie monster nails.

Here's how:

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STEP 1: Paint the base colour white on your index, middle and pinky finger. Then paint the base colour light brown on your thumb and ring finger and let dry. I only did one coat each as I do not like too thick nails but you can do two coats if there's not enough coverage. like so,

STEP 2: Let's start with the cookies first. For the index and pinky fingers, dab the tip of a cotton bud into the light brown polish and paint small dots on the white nails. This will be the cookie shape. It doesn't matter if the dots are uneven size as cookies normally vary in sizes. Now leave it to dry.

STEP 3: Next, using a toothpick, dip in the dark brown polish and make smaller dots in the cookies, this will be the chocolate chips. Again, the size of the chips doesn't matter, it can be big or small. Leave it to dry.

STEP 4: Now move on to the thumb and ring finger for the cookie monster's face. Paint half of your nails with navy blue polish for cookie monster's head. To create the hairy monster effect, I used a toothpick and make small strokes outwards on the still wet navy polish. Then let it dry. 

STEP 5: Then using the same cotton bud technique that you made for the cookie dots, do the same for the monster's white eyes, right in between the middle of your nails. like so,

STEP 6: Finish cookie monster's head by adding a small black dot on the white eyes for the pupils using the toothpick. Then finish with the mouth, I made a black dotted outline for the mouth first by using the toothpicks and then used the black nail polish brush to fill it in. 

As you can see I first left the middle finger empty as I wanted to do something different for it but I had no idea what to do. So I finished the rest of the nails first and then decided to make a letter C, to make it more interesting I added caviar beads!

STEP 7: So for the caviar letter C, I painted white for the base colour and let it dry. Then, using the navy polish I created the letter C free hand and while the polish is still wet, I dipped my finger in the royal blue caviar beads. (or sprinkle the beads instead but make sure you do it over a tray or plate so you can easily collect the unused beads and reuse it.) Then let the beads dry so they stick well. 

STEP 8: Now once all your nails are dry, finish with a top coat, I like to use matte top coats for almost everything I do but you can go ahead and use a normal top coat. 

(it is optional to put a top coat on the caviar beads nail as the top coat makes the colour of the beads bleed and you may end up with runny colours on your nails like I did. lol)

GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!

:D