Creative Style: Summer Nail Design
So my time of rest and relaxation has inspired me to some creativity. The sunshine has inspired some summery nail art and choice of colours, which is why I tried this nail design.
To be honest I would have liked to do it in the colours associated with Greece, blue, white and turquoise except I haven’t had time to buy the colours I am missing, so this is what I came up with. So tell me what you think. This designs takes a while to dry, due to the amount of coats of colour and the top coat, so make sure you have plenty of time to do nothing while it dries.
So Here’s How It Goes
You will need:
- A base coat
- A white coloured varnish
- A fuscia or bright pink coloured varnish
- A blue or steel coloured metallic varnish
- A top coat
This Is How Its Done
- You know how I feel, start with clean hands and nails. File and shape the nails before you begin. Then paint your nails with a base coat.
- Once your base coat is dry, paint your nails with two coats of the white colour. Don’t forget to clean up the nail base and sides if you spill as you go. Let that dry
Now you going to make a geometric design. With one sweep of the pink colour, from the base of the nail, diagonally to the opposite side of the top of the nail. so you end up with a pink triangle over half of your nail. You want this to be two coats, so that the colour really sings. Allow to dry.
- Once that is dry do one coat of top coat. This will harden the colours without effecting the metallic.
Make another triangle of colour, this time, a smaller triangle on top of the pink colour. The bottom corner of this triangle should touch the white, or come as close as you can to it at least.
- Do one more coat over the metallic.
- Sit and wait for it to dry, about 40 mins to touch dry and maybe a little over an hour till its completely set.
This looks great with my tan, such as it is. I’m English, the typical English Rose type and so tanning takes a long time and a lot of sunscreen. Anyway, I like it, I hope you do too. Please subscribe and I’d love to read your comments and see any photos of your nail designs.
Well until next time,
Davita
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