Easter Nail Art: Peeps!

Last year, I had a very cute

nail art design for Easter

that was reminiscent of a little basket with flowers and decorated eggs. This year, I went for a different Easter staple:

Peeps

!

Besides my grandmother, no one in my family really likes Peeps all that much, but I still always put them in our Easter baskets. They are just so cute! I obviously had to use them in my holiday design.

I wasn’t planning on getting a manicure this week, but Husband and I had an hour to kill before a tour yesterday with nothing to do, so I decided to get a fun spring-y color on my nails as the base for a nail art I could do later. Plus, my cuticles were so dry and gross- they really needed the love.

I picked

OPI’s “Sit Under The Apple Tree” green

, which came out lighter than I thought it would, but is still really fun. Plus it’s shimmery, which I love. You can use whatever color or brand of polish you like for this, though!

Materials:

• Nail polish of your choice for base coat

• Acrylic paint in: white, black, teal, purple, pink and yellow

• Large and small dotting tools

• Clear top coat

Instructions:

• With clean dry nails, do one to two coats of your preferred base coat shade and let dry.

• Put a dab of each color on your palette.

• Put a dab of white beside each color.

• Mix the white in to each to make it lighter and give it more “pop” on your nails!

• Use your largest dotting tool dipped in the first color to make a bunny body and adjoining body head on your ring finger.

• Next, use the opposite side/smaller dotting tool in the same color to make two bunny ears.

• Repeat using the other colors on your other ring finger and both thumbs. Let dry. Don’t worry about the paint looking stippled- your clear coat will smooth it out.

• Use your smallest dotting tool dipped in black paint to make little eyes and noses on the bunnies. Let dry.

• Seal in your PEEPS! look with a clear top coat and let dry. Done!

SO CUTE!!! I love this design so much and can’t wait to show it to the kids on Easter. How will you be decorating your nails for the holiday? Peep peep!