Hooray, Pokemon!
The Pokeball is not overly difficult to create; just paint your full nail in red, add white to the bottom half and a round spot in the center. When it dries you can use a nail art pen, paintbrush or even a fine-point Sharpie to draw on separation lines.
Anytime you're applying nail art that's a bit absurd or excessive I recommend keeping several of your nails in plain color. For me, I did one Pokeball and one Pikachu on each hand and that's it; leaving the rest plain.
Had I applied a different Pokemon to each and every finger I think the theme would have become overdone. I love nail art, obviously, but it's just a general rule of mine to try and keep it as "wearable" as possible.
For the Pikachu face, start out with a yellow creme base and simply draw on eyes, cheeks, a nose and mouth with whatever supplies you prefer. (I used a thin paintbrush and acrylic craft paint.) These are basic shapes that come together to form something falsely complex; as long as you can draw circles and a small wave this is actually very accessible.
By applying his basic face only and leaving out his pointy ears we're playing towards the natural shape of our nails and simplifying the design so the look is more approachable but still retains its recognizability.
This Piplup and Charmander were some bonus designs I made but didn't apply because they would have introduced new colors to my current scheme, (which I wanted to keep as simplified as possible.)
This one is a bonus Snorlax.
A bonus Jigglypuff.
This was an exceptionally fun look to wear for a few days!
Do you have a favorite Pokemon?
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Asami is 23 and lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and cat. She enjoys painting watercolors, LOST, coffee and semicolons.
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Aww! I love Pokemon! That is the cutest mani! My favourite Pokemon is Salamence. He's badass! :3
The Pikachu is super cute! I love Jigglypuff! not really pokemon the game related but in Super Smash Bros. Melee if you knock Jigglypuff off the stage and send her flying she screams Jigglypuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuf and disappears into the horizon with a plink noise lol.
I love this! Pokemon for the win hehe. I really enjoy looking at the nail art you do. It's so fun!
I got SO excited when I saw this! It's awesome!!
CUTE! Your nails looks so neat every time! :)
Perfect done, they look like the real ones,
and I agree ur nails look so neat
Love this design - specially Pikatchi. Pik - pika :D
This is SOOOO Cute! I loved Pokemon when I was younger! Pikachu is the best!
oh my goodness ~ this design is such a cutie! i'll do this on myself really soon and link your site to my post. thanks so much for sharing this! :D
http://abbiespurpleroom.blogspot.com/
Soo cute! :)
extremely cute mani!! :) love it!!
so beautiful!
perfectly done!
Oooowww! Wow! I love to see everytime your creations and everytime I think oke, better then this.. that is impossible, and yes then you create something new that is even better! I love to expression of pikachu on your nails! Don't really have a favorite pokemon, but a cute one is absolutely Jigglypuff! :D
Ah the jigglypuff! How cute! Love the design on your nails too!
I love your nails & Pokemon! They look absolutely flawless! I hope to recreate this look one day :)
They are so cute! :D You're so good att this :)
You did an awesome job!
I freakin' loveee your nails!
I love pokemon!!! This looks great. My fav is pikachu :)
These are so cute Asami! I love them!
Omg I loooove Jiggly Puff thats my Favorite Pokemon! I will try to start working w Acrylis paints to do more designs. Are there any brands you recommend?
this is amazing!
and I love your DS =) Mine is a 5 year old, a phat pink DS. =)))
oh, and bulbasaur is one of my fave pokemon, too! along with empoleon, dialga, glaceon and gardevoir =)
The nails are so cute!!! I love Jigglypuff!!
I was never a big Pokemon fan, but I did play at least one of the Gameboy games (the yellow Pikachu edition). Pikachu is cute. Jiggly Puff is cute as well. For some reason, I always Snorlax was cute when he was sleeping.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!! That is so so SO cute! I'm no fan of pokemon but my siblings are and god this is amazing, can I pleasssssssseeeeeeee redo it??!?!! Gotta catch em all!
Snorlax all the way!
Omg I love Pokemon!!! My boyfriend would flip for this mani!! Too cute for words :)
Oh man that's the cutest mani ever! You did such a good job :)
I like Squirtle best :)
Pure Pokemon perfection! I love nail art like this that is bold, simple and not too busy but still amazing!!
Aww, I absolutely love these nails! Adorable! My favorite Pokemon would have to be Espeon and Latias, and as for starters, I always choose water. Ironically, I was about to ask you about doing a Pokemon manicure around the same time these appeared! Where do you get your ideas from?
Wow, that is such precise art work.. You are so talented. : )
I love them!!!
I dont even like Pokemon but I would still be more than happy to have my nails looking like this cos it's just beyond awesome! You've made him look so adorable :)
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Girl, you are so creative! I couldn't do that! LOVE!
I love these. I would have never thought of doing pokeballs! Makes me want to take off my halloween nails right now. Love the Jiggly puff it looks a little complicated though. I'd love to see more poke-nails. I don't think I have a favorite pokemon I love all of them so much!! > w <
My most favourite pokemon is Charizard! I've always loved that little guy. I just stumbled upon your website the other day and have watched all of your video tutorials. I think they're great! I wish I had the talent that you have! and although you make it look very simple I know that I am not great at art/painting and never have been. But I will still continue to enjoy the talent of others.
Asami, that's beautiful. I love your work, always neat, gorgeous and clever. Applause.
@ Kae (2nd comment) I wish they had a "like" for previous comments. You crack me up :) lol...
Squirtle! Squirtle squirtle!
Sorry, I just can't help it. If it was the regular pokéball you were going for, your version is incorrect.
But it's an awesome design anyway.
http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/1/14607/334606-160760-pokeball_large.gif
amazing!! :) one of my fave is Meow :)!!
Gahh I just love this so much, it's so awesome! My boyfriend would love if I had pokemon nails, LOL. I think I'm going to try to do a mani with the jigglypuff one, he's my favorite pokemon (besides squirtle).
Wow! You are majorly talented! So cute! Perfect :)
Cute
my favorite will always be Ponyta!
Omg those are sooo cute, Lexy and Kira will love these! Now sis, I need you to do some World of Warcraft designs for my hunter! Love you! ;-) As for a fav pokemon it is Charizard hands down!
how cute!!!! :P I love this!!! :P
I love how you did a jigglypuff one too :P soo soo adorable! :P
That is just too cool. Never cease to amaze me. Is there no end to your creativity?!? (Rhetorical)
Gosh Asami, this is so freaking cute! I can't wait to see your Totoro design, it will probably be better than mine. :D
One word: perfect!
Gosh, this is so cute! I got acrylics and had the manicurist do the pikachu, but he couldn't do the pokeballs so I had him just do red and I did it at home. It's sort of sloppy, but I like it! <3
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You rock~!
Anonymous, oh my gosh! That turned out super cute! Thank you so much for taking the time to show me a picture; I make so many looks and only once in a while do I find out somebody wore one! It makes me really happy, thank you! :-)
i tagged you because i love your blog very much and i love the nailart you make :)
http://nails-4-fun.blogspot.com/2010/11/one-lovely-blog-award.html
This is cute again, I love it!!
Love the snorlax one <:
Am so jealous of your lovely hands and nails. And I LOVE POKEMON. Esp the Snorlax one and bonus Jigglypuff. And jels of your DS. Oh so green...
Thos are AWESOME :)
My fave Pokemon has always been Vulpix :)
just came across this blog :)!
and immediately spotted the adorable pokemon mani :D! love it <3
awesome nails youshould see cutepolish on you tube she did a pikachu on all of her nails heres the link at the bottom. Oh baack to the question, my favorite is between pikachu, piplup, umbreon, and , vulpix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7bc46b4twg
This is beyond cuteness!