00:003D Scrat from Ice Age, Acrylic Nail Art Tutorial by Hot Pink Zebra Polish.
00:20Hi everyone, so in today's video I am going to be making a three-dimensional
00:25scrat and there's also, it's a two-nail design, so on the first nail it's scrat
00:28reaching out to try to get his acorn and on the second nail it's his acorn stuck
00:33into a huge sheet of glacial ice. Anyways, I hope you like this design, it's really fun
00:39and if you're planning on going to the new Ice Age movie I would definitely think
00:43about trying this out and don't forget to click subscribe to see my future videos as well.
00:48So I'm going to begin by sculpting the nail for my scrat, so I'm going to start with a
00:51gradient, so I'm going to take a bead of light blue, place it by the cuticle, push it up into
00:55the cuticle area and then brush it down and then add a bead of white to the tip and then brush it
01:00up just to create a very subtle light blue to white gradient. And then I'm going to be placing
01:07a bead of glitter over the nail, so this is a clear base with just white glitter flakes in it. This is
01:13just going to kind of add to that snowy effect and then I'm going to add a layer of clear acrylic
01:17on top of that and encase the entire nail. So you want to make sure that those first two layers
01:21were nice and thin so that the entire nail doesn't get too bulky overall. That's also where you're going to
01:25want to build your nail structure. So I'm going to be filing my nail with a 180 grit file to smooth
01:30it out and when you're doing this make sure you don't file through that top layer of clear into
01:34that glitter layer and then buff it with a 240 grit pad of buffer to remove any scratches so that your
01:403d art goes on nice and smoothly. So now I'm going to be sculpting my scrat and the color that I'm using
01:46in this beginning is sort of a a beige gold tone. It's just a light brown color. It's the lightest brown
01:53color I had and it like I said it is gold actually. It's Koopa's gold so but it's not like a metallic
02:00gold if any of that makes a lick of sense. So we're going to sculpt his head, his neck, his body,
02:07his and we're going to sculpt one back leg and one front leg along with his snout. And so I did his
02:12back leg down there and so now I'm going to be working on his front leg. When you're doing his front
02:16leg make sure that you work in very wet acrylic because to make these really nice thin lines that we're
02:22going for if it's too thick it's not going to have that effect. If it's too firm the acrylic isn't
02:28going to be able to pull and stretch into that shape that we're going for. And so once you have
02:33his arm in place I'm just going to touch up his back a little bit and I'm going to add his ears
02:39with the same color.
02:45And then I'm going to add his eyes.
02:47There's his first eye. And then I'm going to be adding his other eye on the other side that's a
02:51lot smaller because you don't see the entire thing with gold. And I'm also going to be adding his
02:56saber tooth. And once you have that in place I'm just going to add a little bit of brown for his nose.
03:07And then going back with gold I'm going to be adding his eyelids. So just take a very small bead and
03:12press it right in the middle of where you want his eyelid to be and then pull it in either direction just
03:16so that it sort of stretches and gets tapered down at the edges so that you have an eyelid.
03:21And then with gray I'm going to be sculpting his tail and then add just a little bit of gray acrylic
03:26over his back and just sort of brush it on so it's not a really bright gray but it's just sort of
03:31blended into his back. And then also do that same thing with white over his legs.
03:40And then a little bit on his cheek just to lighten up those areas.
03:42So now I'm going to be adding some white highlights. So I'm going to use full strength
03:46white on his eyes to highlight them. And then diluted white to highlight his ears,
03:50his snout, his eyelids, his arms. And then with a charcoal color I'm going to add some stripes
03:55on his back and on his tail. And also just define his legs a little bit. So I'm going to separate
03:59that back to make it look like it's two instead of one. And do just some subtle outlining with that gray.
04:03Differentiate between his upper and lower jaw. Highlight his tooth. Add brown in his eyes for
04:12the color and then a black pupil. And then with black I'm going to be doing the rest of my outlining.
04:18And I do definitely want to do some outlining on this guy so that he shows up really nice and
04:22easy to see. Otherwise when you look at him it's a little bit hard to tell where all of his shapes
04:27are. You know eyelids, eyeballs, all that stuff. You want to make sure everything is outlined and
04:31nice and visible. And so after I got that done I just went through and touched up anything that
04:36got messed up from the outlining. And now I'm applying some gel sealer in the background and
04:40curing that. And I'm going to apply matte top coat over my Scrat. He is my favorite character for sure
04:48from the Ice Age franchise. Just going to throw that out there. I love Scrat. So then for the acorn I'm
04:53just going to cover the entire nail with some of that light blue acrylic and just making sure that
04:57it's a relatively thin layer for this. This is going to be our our background. And then let this blue
05:04acrylic set completely. You don't want it to be any sort of mobile at all. You want it to be completely
05:10set and then add a relatively thick layer of that glitter acrylic over the top. And then I'm going to
05:16be taking an exacto knife that I've dipped into clear acrylic and then scrape off so that's got a nice
05:20clean edge at the bottom. And then I'm going to once again dip it into some clear acrylic just so it
05:26doesn't stick. And I'm going to be carving out the shapes of cracks. And you want all of this to be
05:30sort of coming out from the center. So just cut out your cracks. I know it's hard to see in the video
05:36but I can see them so you can you are able to see what you're doing. And I'm going to add a layer of
05:40acrylic that's even thicker towards the tip and filling that in and leaving that nice edge. And I'm going to
05:45go through and create more cracks. And when you're doing this if you're doing this on yourself or on a
05:50client make sure that you're very very careful with this sharp knife so that you don't cut anyone
05:54or yourself. And then I'm going to be adding a very wet bead of some white into all of those cracks.
06:00I'm just going to push it into the cracks so that it goes into those all those little dents that we
06:06made. And I'm going to gently file it off the surface so that the cracks are white and everything
06:11else around it is white. And this has an amazing cracked ice effect. It looks incredible with that
06:15glitter and then the white in there. It's again hard to see in the video really how perfect it looks.
06:20But that is the technique that I thought was it just looks awesome. So now I'm going to be sculpting
06:26my acorn with that same goldish color for the bottom of the acorn and then brown for the top.
06:32And I'm going to take a really tiny wet bead of that same brown and then add the little stem on the acorn.
06:38And then I'm going to add another bead of brown over the top. And then with my exact knife once again,
06:45I'm going to be just poking little holes in it to give it that texture. The other thing you could do
06:49is you could use a pointed tweezer which is what I would have done, but my tweezers was MIA for a
06:54moment. And I'm just going to differentiate between the two layers of ice with some diluted charcoal
06:59paint, blend it out, add a little gold highlight on my acorn, and then paint glossy gel sealer in the background
07:06over that ice, and then cure it, and add matte top coat over the acorn.
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