Tropical Island Nail Design
Here are the polishes and tools used for this tropical nail design:
Base and Top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.
Polishes- Finger paints- Tiffany imposter, Picture Polish- Salt Water- Nailstorming, and China glaze- white on white.
Acrylic paints- black, white, blue, red, green, yellow. (basically all the colors.)
Nail art brushes- thin stripper brush, detail and liner brushes, a flat brush and a fan brush.
A cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes.
Tropical Island Nail Design
Start off with a thin layer of base coat and then let that dry.
Once your base coat has dried polish your thumb, index and pinky finger nail with a light blue polish ( the polish I used has a subtle holographic glitter in it). For your middle and ring finger nail which is the nails that we will be doing the design, polish those two nails with a slightly darker creme blue polish.
Let that dry.
*Also once again a lot of the same techniques that we did for the other two nail designs we will be doing again for this design, but of course this is a completely different design.*
Then for the topical design on the middle and ring finger nail. First leave just a little bit of that lighter blue creme polish showing, then on a larger flat brush near the cuticle with paint starting with a slightly lighter and going to a darker blue, we will be making a gradient for the sky. With the fan brush (while the paint is still kind of wet) start to blend those together, you will need to go over this a few time for the sky to be opaque.
Once you have the sky, add just a little bit of light green at the bottom of the sky and also kind of make that blend into the sky as well.
Under that green make a large rectangle like shape for the water with white paint.
Then on the tip of the nail and under the white water we just made, we will make a small patch of land. With your liner brush and brown paint, make kind of lumpy line and a curve at the top for a slop, and then fill that in with the brown paint.
Once your base coat has dried polish your thumb, index and pinky finger nail with a light blue polish ( the polish I used has a subtle holographic glitter in it). For your middle and ring finger nail which is the nails that we will be doing the design, polish those two nails with a slightly darker creme blue polish.
Let that dry.
*Also once again a lot of the same techniques that we did for the other two nail designs we will be doing again for this design, but of course this is a completely different design.*
Then for the topical design on the middle and ring finger nail. First leave just a little bit of that lighter blue creme polish showing, then on a larger flat brush near the cuticle with paint starting with a slightly lighter and going to a darker blue, we will be making a gradient for the sky. With the fan brush (while the paint is still kind of wet) start to blend those together, you will need to go over this a few time for the sky to be opaque.
Once you have the sky, add just a little bit of light green at the bottom of the sky and also kind of make that blend into the sky as well.
Under that green make a large rectangle like shape for the water with white paint.
Then on the tip of the nail and under the white water we just made, we will make a small patch of land. With your liner brush and brown paint, make kind of lumpy line and a curve at the top for a slop, and then fill that in with the brown paint.
Tropical Island Nail Design
Next on to the palm trees, that will be peaking out from the sides of our nails. On our middle finger nail on the left side, with a thin stripper brush make three curved lines with a light green paint and then for the small palm leaves starting from a light to dark green (I used three shades of green) make a lot of small line from the larger three curved lines we just made.
Repeat this step on the ring finger nail just make the palm leaves on the other side of the nail.
Also for an add touch I added another piece of land that is suppose to be off in the distance. In the middle of the nail, with a detail brush with brown paint on it make another land formation with a curve and the a flat part.
Tropical Island Nail Design
Once you have your tropical nail design the way you like apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last though your tropical vacation.
Hope all of you enjoined this tropical nail design and enjoy the last bits of summer like weather.
See you next time for more nail fun!
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