Disney Princess Nails: Elsa

Let it go…  These nails are inspired by the princess Elsa from the movie Frozen (2013).  Finishing our Disney Princess Nails series is the queen of ice and snow!

You’ll need:

Base coat

Top coat (I prefer Seche Vite)

Striper brush

Light blue, medium blue, green-blue, white, black, brown, orange, nude, light yellow, light pink, silver, and sliver glitter nail polishes  (I used: Dior Vernis in Porcelaine 204; Pure Ice in Kissy Kiss; OPI Nail Lacquer in Go On Green!; Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in 110 Hard to Get; Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in 880 Black Heart; OPI in You Don’t Know Jacques! Suede; NYC Nail Enamel in 112 Times Square Tangerine Creme; OPI in My Vampire is Buff; OPI Nail Lacquer in Megawatt?!; CoverGirl Continuous Color in Parisian Pink 052; Sephora by OPI in Queen of Everything; and Sephora by OPI Top Coat in Flurry Up!)

Start with a base coat.  Paint each nail medium blue.

On your pinky, use your striper brush dipped in white to outline and fill in the shape of Olaf’s face, leaving a section unpainted for his mouth.  Add a small section in white at the top of his mouth for teeth.  Dip your striper brush in black to outline his eyes and add pupils, then brown to add eyebrows and hair, and finally orange for his carrot nose.  (I also went back with some medium blue to add smile lines on his cheeks.)

On your ring finger, use the striper brush to create and fill in the nude outline of Elsa’s chin, neck, and décolleté.  (I angled the right shoulder line up a bit to create a raised arm.)  Use the green-blue to create the bodice part of her dress, then the light blue for her arms and cape, making sure to have the arm on the right extended outward from her body off to the right edge of the nail.  Dip the striper brush in light yellow to add her famous braid then add her small light pink smirk.

On your middle finger, use the striper brush to create a light blue sleeve extending from the left side of the nail to the middle, with a nude hand shape with the palm facing up.  Then use the striper brush dipped in silver to add swirls extending up from the hand and toward the right edge of the nail, with some white swirls mixed in and tiny white snowflake shapes.  Add some silver glitter over the top of the ice magic.

On your index finger, use the striper brush dipped in white to create a large snowflake near the center of the nail and silver and white swirls coming from the left edge of the nail.  Add silver glitter to the swirls and the center of the snowflake.

On your thumb, use the striper brush dipped in white to write “Let It Go”, and then add silver glitter in any open spaces.

Finish with a top coat and you’re done!

~Alyssa