Hawaiian Time- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we have one more tropical design for the summer, even though to most people summer has come to a close, in most places at lest in the US the weather still fills summer like, so why not make at lest on more summer/ tropical themed nail design. In the last M.M.M post we took a look at the ILNP Under the Sea collection, today we will be creating a design using most of the polishes from that collection. 

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this tropical nail design:

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and CND Super Shiney Top Coat.

Polishes- ILNP- Sea Glass- Under the Sea Collection, ILNP- Paradise, ILNP- Blowing Bubbles, and ILNP- Sandbar Magnetic polish.

Acrylic paint- Black and white. 

Nail art brushes- Thin stripper brush and flat brush.

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes and a makeup sponge. 

Apply a top coat, let that dry. 

Polishes- 

Thumb and pinky nail- A light blue holo polish (ILNP- Blowing Bubbles)

Index, middle and ring finger nails- Base color a beige sand colored polish (ILNP- Sandbar)

Let that dry.

For this design I will not go into too much detail on how to create this design seeing how, most of my tropical designs are created the same way, just different polishes.

Anyways for this design we will need to create a gradient on the index, middle and ring finger nails. On your sponge you will need to start off with, Sandbar, Blowing Bubbles, Paradise, and then Sea Glass. Sponge this on the nails three time to be opaque.

For the ocean waves take a flat brush with a very small amount of water down white paint and dab this where the sand and ocean meet, Sandbar and Blowing Bubbles bend together.    

For the final touch we will add two black/ shadows of a palm trees to the nails, on the index nail make a palm tree on the left side of the nail, then on the ring finger nail make a palm tree on the right side of the nail. On the middle finger nail leave that with just the ocean. 

Once your nails are vacation ready apply a top coat to seal in your nails and help your beautiful tropical design to last. 

As with all of the nail design that I create, I always do a practice version, if I feel like I did a good job on the practice version I will share it with all of you.

Hope all of you enjoyed this topical nail design! Also hope everyone had a great summer. I know my summer was pretty good, this summer was the first summer in a while that my hubby and I went on a vacation that required us to get on a plain, we went to Miami Beach, Florida. 

See you next time for more nail polish fun!