Spring Flower nails!

Spring Flower Nails!

Happy Easter everyone! It's a little late but better late than never, right?

Rating: **

Finished Nails

Tools

Butterflies

I used:

• Collection 2000 Nail Care Top Coat
• Barry M 290 Spring Green
• Maybelline 720 Green Miracle
• Rimmel 60 Seconds 703 White Hot Love
• Rimmel Lasting Colour 280 Sunshine
• 20/0 Paintbrush
• Dotting tool (not pictured)
• 2 Butterflies
• Tweezers (not pictured) 

Step 1

Paint your nails with the clear top coat.

Step 2

Use the paintbrush to paint the lighter green across the tips of all your nails. Start at the tip and flick the brush up towards the cuticle to get the pointy grass look.

Step 3

Use the paintbrush to paint the darker green over the light green. Don't do too much, you just want it to add depth.

Step 4

Paint the flower petals onto the nails. For each one, start at the centre of the flower and draw the brush outwards. If you can, you may want to practice this before you do it on your nails.

Step 5

Add the centres of the flowers using the yellow and a small dotting tool.

Step 6

Add the butterflies to your thumbs. You could put them on your ring fingers if you wanted but I thought it looked a bit crowded. To do this, paint a small amount of clear nail varnish where you want the butterfly. Pick out a butterfly and place it on the nail. Position it using the tweezers and hold it down (bending it to the shape of the nail) until it no longer slides around. 

Step 7

Paint over the design with the top coat and clean up around it. Make sure to put a little extra over the butterfly, just to make sure it doesn't come off too easily as it does stick up a bit.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below 

Autumn Leaf Nails!

Autumn Leaves Nails!

Apologies for our mysterious absence but I found these from ages ago and thought I would post them. Don't expect posts to suddenly appear - it's surprisingly difficult to find time to do the more intricate designs but we do have a few ideas and old designs that are still on my camera which will be coming your way every fortnight for the next month or two!

Rating: ***

Finished Nails

Acrylic Paints

Tools

I used:

• Collection 2000 Lasting Colour19 Berry Hot
• 619 Cadmium Orange acrylic paint
• 651 Lemon Yellow acrylic paint
• 701 Gold Imit acrylic paint
• Clear top coat
• 20/0 paintbrush

Step 1

Paint the nails with the red nail varnish.

Step 2

Paint the orange leaves on the nail using the orange acrylic paint and a small paintbrush. You could use nail varnish instead of acrylic paint but I found it easier to paint the leaves using paint. To do each branch of the leaf, draw a line and then add the points.

Step 3

Repeat the process using the yellow acrylic paint.

Step 4

Repeat the process with the gold acrylic paint.

Step 5

Cover the design in clear nail varnish to protect it and make it shiny as acrylic paint is rather dull. Also, clean up around the nails with nail varnish remover. 

 
If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below