You can tell you’ve taken good care of them if your nails are immaculate. A French manicure or some solid-coloured talons never go wrong, but you can elevate your manicure to a whole new level by adding a charming flower design. There’s never a bad moment for floral nail art, whether it’s spring outside or just in your heart.
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Getting Your Nails Ready
Take off any remaining chips in your nail polish. Give yourself a beautiful canvas to work on before you begin painting. Remover for nail polish is available at your neighbourhood pharmacy.
Choose a remover marked “non-acetone” if your nails are prone to drying out and chipping. You don’t want to dry out your nails just before getting a manicure; these are kinder to your nails.
Cut and file your nails
Your flower nail art will not look flawless no matter how skillfully you create it if your nails are uneven, jagged, or malformed. Trimming and filing them is essential before painting them. First, decide on the nail shape you desire. While some people want soft, rounded nails, others prefer square tips with sharp edges.
Make sure all of your nails are the same length by trimming them. When pruning, leave a little extra length because filing will lead them to become somewhat shorter.
Using short, clean strokes, file your nails with the nail file. Your nail will gradually begin to take shape, and you can stop when you’re happy with the way it looks.
Verify again that the length and shape of each nail are the same. Verify that none of your nails are hanging.
Apply your base colour
Select a hue that will work well as the background for your flowers. To mix and prepare the polish, roll it between your palms.
- Avoid shaking as this might create air bubbles in your polish and dry it out.
- Avoid packing the brush with too much polish when dipping it into the mixture.
- When applying nail polish to your fingernail, try to use just three strokes. If needed, apply a few extra strokes to ensure that the polish covers your entire nail.
- Give your base coat enough time to completely dry before adding the flowers. You have two options for drying: either let it air dry or use cold air to blow dry them more quickly.
Making the Flowers
To make your flowers, select two colours. To make your flowers stand out, you should select colours that contrast sufficiently with your foundation colour.
Select opaque polishes because applying a second layer of polish over a detailed floral design is difficult. Still, you can use sheer polishes to create subtler floral designs.
Use a toothpick or brush to make dots on your nails
Go ahead and use the nail polish brush if it is small enough to make the dots. If not, put them aside and use the polish to dip a toothpick into. Enough polish should be applied to the tip to create a dot. If the toothpick is too sharp and doesn’t absorb enough polish after being dipped, gently push its tip against a hard surface until it somewhat flattens.
Place these dots on your nails in the appropriate locations since they will form the flower’s center. You might wish to paint one or more flowers on each nail. Make space for the next set of “petal” dots that you will be painting!
Use any other thin tool to generate the dots if you don’t have any toothpicks or don’t like the effect you’re getting with one.
Using your second colour, make 5–6 dots (the petals) surrounding the original dot
Using a toothpick or brush, dip it into the second polish hue. Apply just enough polish to the toothpick’s tip to create a dot. To make the flower’s petals, you will be adding dots to the original dots that you produced.
Although you can make as many petals as you desire, most flowers have five or six.
After creating the petal dots, you may either leave them in their current form or move them to form other shapes.
Try, for instance, positioning the petal dots further from the central dot and then “dragging” the polish toward the centre with your toothpick. This will produce more petals that resemble teardrops.
Don’t hesitate to use your imagination. Try varying the colours, shapes, and sizes of the petals. You can experiment with different techniques once you become more accustomed to applying the polish with a toothpick.
Let your flowers completely dry
This is crucial because you will ruin your lovely flowers if you try to apply a top coat too soon or if you bump your wet nails on anything. While some nail polishes are advertised as drying quickly, some require at least 30 minutes to completely dry.
Use a hairdryer to expedite the process of drying your nails. Getting it to run on “cool” is the key. It is best to use chilly air because hot air will prevent the polish from solidifying.
Get one of the special polish-drying sprays from the drugstore if you’re in a hurry to get your nails dried.
Apply paint on a stem. This is all up to you
If you have green nail paint, and draw a tiny stem extending from the blossom using a clean toothpick or extremely thin brush. You may add tiny leaves and even use stems to join several flowers together!
Pens designed specifically for drawing fine details, such as leaves and stems, are available. If you’re interested in buying these, check out your neighbourhood drugstore or beauty supply store.
Improve the background or add glitter
Feel free to incorporate even more unique elements into your nail art! The toothpick can be used to create additional thin designs or little dots for the background. It’s quite fashionable right now to combine geometric backgrounds with floral designs. You can add some sparkle to the design by painting a coat of sheer glitter polish over it.
Apply a clear topcoat
It’s crucial to seal everything once your manicure and flowers are finished. Select a polish that is specifically designed for use as a topcoat to complete your manicure. A quality topcoat serves as a barrier to stop chipping and other damage while shielding the polish from normal wear and tear. A topcoat also gives your nails a stunning gloss.
A topcoat also helps to smooth out the overall design and make it appear more unified because you’ve used multiple different types of nail polish.
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