Minions anyone?

Wow, look at that!  It’s Saturday and I actually have a post up.  I don’t really post on weekends but I had to share this.

Earlier today my (baby) cousin Jamcj sent me a pin on pinterest for Minion nails and said if I did them I would be super cool in her eyes.  Challenge accepted!!  I also recently saw this adorable and easy tutorial from Cutepolish.  So I gave it a shot.

 

 

The Minions are my favourite part of the Despicable Me movies. They are so adorable and I definitely need a few of my own.

For this look I used 2 coats of Sinful Colors – Pull Over.

Pull Over is a gorgeous yellow that is super easy to work with.  I then used Sinful Colors – Why Not?

 

I used Why Not? for the blue tips.  I used the polish brush and then just rotated my finger. Exactly the way CutePolish describes it in her tutorial and it worked quite well.  I then used my black striper to make the wider black line that forms part of the ‘goggles’ and for the (very wonky) smile.  I then used Sinful Colors – Casablanca for the first silver big dot for the eye.  When that was dry I used Sinful Colors – Snow me White and made a smaller dot on top of the silver to make the eye.  When that was dry I used my striper brush to make the small black dot for pupil.  When that was all done I added a thick coat of topcoat – so as not to smudge anything – and I was good to go.

I must admit, this was my second attempt.  The first attempt I made the blue tips too big so there wasn’t much space left for the ‘smile’.  I also totally messed up with the eye.  Here is what my first attempt looked like.

 

Still Minion-esque but definitely a little strange looking, even for a Minion 😛

What do  you think?  Do you also love the cute little Minions?  I would love to have a few real life Minions running around.  So much fun!

Thanks for reading!