Tropical Hibiscus- Tropical Flower Nail Design

Hello everyone! If you are anything like me you are tired of fall being pushed down your throat in July and just want to enjoy summer. Then this tropical hibiscus flower nail design will be great for you! I don't know why the fall craziness has to start way to early, every year it seems like they start the fall stuff earlier and earlier and then the people that like summer, I feel don't get to truly enjoy it, but maybe because fall and Halloween are the money making holidays/ season so that why the have been staring it way to early lately. I remember when I was little they would actually let season be season, which I miss.  

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

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

Polishes- Finger paints- Legendary Lore, Loreal- Tangerine Crush, and Cover Girl- Glosstinis Bahama Mama. (I used to old polish that I know are no longer available, but these are polishes that you can easily find in another brand.)

Acrylic paint- Red, white, green, and yellow. (mix your green and yellow to make a light green and then mix your red and white to make a pink) 

Nail art brushes- Thin detail and striper brushes. 

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Apply a top coat to clean dry nails, and let that dry.

Polishes- * I decided to use some really old polishes that I have in my collection.* 

Thumb and middle finger nails- a pink with a gold shimmer (Finger paints- Legendary Lore)

Index and pinky finger nails- a orange and pinkish cream polish (Loreal- Tangerine Crush)

Ring finger nail- a light orange polish (Cover Girl- Glosstinis Bahama Mama)

Let that dry.

Large Hibiscus on the Thumb Nail- 

First we will start off with the large pink hibiscus on the thumb nail. Take a thin striper brush with white paint on it and we will be making make a long heart shape for the each of the petals (this is the best way to describe the shape) the first petal will be the one in the center of the nail near the tip of the nail. The next one is on the left side of the nail, then the bottom near the cuticle, then make a rounded one next to that petal, lastly another heart shape petal next the rounded one and next to the first petal you made. Once you have the outline fill that in with white paint this will help the pink paint to stand out more. 

Once that has dried take a red and white paint with more red and mix those two together to make a pink. Fill in the white of all of the petals with that pink paint. Also you may need to re outline all of your petals with white, if you want to. For the center of each petal we will add some red detail by taking a red stripper brush and make a lot of line that are very close together, this will fill up the bottom part of all of your petals.  

Lastly we will make the long yellow part of the hibiscus that is in the center (not really sure what that is called.) First take your striper brush with white paint on it and make a long curved line in the center and then at the end make a few very small dots. Once that has dried go over that with yellow paint. 

For the final touch we will need to add some green leaves. With your thin detail brush make a leaf near the bottom of your flower on both sides and one leaf near the top of your flower. 

Red Hibiscus Flower on the Middle Finger Nail- 

For the smaller red hibiscus we will pretty much flower the same steps as the larger pink one we just made on our thumb nail, just red and with a pink outline, and just a little bit of a different shape it kind of had heart shaped petals, but kind of doesn't. Also this flower will only have two leaves on each side of the flower. 

Palm Leaf on the Ring Finger Nail- 

Lastly we will make a palm leaf on the middle finger nail, take a thin stripper brush with a light green paint on it and make a kind if curved line starting near the cuticle and going down the nail, with that same brush make a leaf at the bottom of that green line, then staring near the cuticle make a small leaf on each side and make then just a little bit bigger as you go down the nail. Once you have finished this you can add a little bit of a darker green to your leaves as well, even though the one I did you can't see the difference very well. 

Once your nails are tropical summer ready because here we don't want an early fall, apply a top coat to add and shine and to help your nails to last. 

Practice Nail Design 

Hope all of you enjoyed the tropical hibiscus flower nail design and that you enjoy the rest of your summer! 

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Happy Birthday Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today's post we will be celebrating a big birthday of mine. My birthday is August 16 and it is a milestone birthday and what better way to celebrate then with a birthday nail design. I am starting to get a little up in age now, but that does not mean that you have to act your age, their is nothing wrong with acting younger than you actually are, which I do all the time. I personal feel that if you do act your age that is kind of boring I personal know people that act like grumpy adults and that is no way to live. Also the older I get the more things in life I have realized, which is not good things unfortunately, which I will not get into in this blog. Anyway if you have an August birthday (or really anytime) like me then you can create this design on your nails as well. 

Here are the polish and nail art tools used to create this birthday nail design:

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

Polishes- Pretty& Polished- Donut Ever Let Me Go, China Glaze- Dippin Dots- Arctic Confetti, Finger Paints- Heavenly Hues, Nicole by OPI- That's Just Plain Nuts!, and Pretty& Polished- Double, Double, Toil and Truffle. 
Acrylic paint- Black, white, blue, red, green, and yellow.

Nail art brushes- Thin striper and detail brush. 

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes. 

Apply a topcoat to clean dry nails. Let that dry.

Polish-

Thumb and index nails- a light pink polish with sprinkles like pieces in it (Pretty& Polished- Donut Ever Let Me Go.)

Middle finger nail- a light pink polish with neon spindle like pieces in it (China Glaze- Arctic Confetti) or you can just use the same polish that you used on your thumb and index nails.

Ring finger nail- a periwinkle blue (Finger Paints- Heavenly Hues) 

Pinky nail- a brown cream polish first and then a brown polish with copper glitter pieces in it. (Nicole by OPI- That's Just Plain Nuts!, and Pretty& Polished- Double, Double, Toil and Truffle)

Happy B- Day on the Ring Finger Nail: 

First I wanted to start off my letting you know that the thumb, index and middle finger nails are going to look like frosting on a cake and the pinky nail like chocolate. The pinky nail will stay as is just looking like chocolate, that is my favorite kind of sweets/ candy. 

The ring finger nail we will be painting Happy B-Day on, this can be a hard thing to do paint, just lay your hand on the table that you are polishing, take a thin striper brush with black paint on it and slowly start to paint the letters for Happy B-day, I thought it was a little easier to paint the words vertically that way their is enough space for all the words on the nail.

Candles on the Middle Finger Nail: 

Next we will create the candles on the middle finger nail. Take a thin detail brush with red paint and make a thin line near the tip of the nail, repeat this step for blue and yellow and if you would like to make more candles on your nails you can do so as well. 

Once that has dried you can then add strips to your candles the red and blue I just made white stripes and then out line the candles, then the yellow one I just outline and added blue stripes.

For the flames on the candle make a diamond like shape right above your candles that you just made, if you would like you can outline them with black paint.

Balloons on the Index Finger Nail: 

We will be making five balloons on the index nail, you can always make more if your nails are longer. Take a detail brush with red paint on it and make a circle near the left side of the cuticle fill that in and then at the bottom of your circle make the neck of your ballon. Repeat this step for each ballon yellow, blue, green, and another red balloon. 

For the strings take a long stripper brush with white paint on it and make a wavy line coming from each balloon. For your final detail take that same striper brush with white paint on it and make a line on each ballon and a small dot for the reflection. 

Birthday Cake on the Thumb Nail: 

Lastly we will make our Birthday cake, my favorite kind of cake is of course chocolate cake. For our thumb nail we will be making a cake that has pink frosting and chocolate frosting, and the cake it self is chocolate which you can't see. 😉 

To make the shape of your cake take a thin striper brush with black paint on it and make a square shape that is round at the top, then for the chocolate frosting make three wavy lines, fill that in with a brown polish and then take that same polish that you used for the pinky nail and go over the brown polish. 

For the final touch our candles, I made 5 candles because that was what fit on the cake. Take a thin detail brush with blue paint on it and make 5 small line on top of the cake and then five small flames on top of the candles. 

Once your birthday nails are all ready for your big celebration apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this Birthday nail design and if you are celebrating an August birthday or a big birthday or any birthday Happy Birthday to you! Also if you made it this far in the blog and you wonder what big birthday I am celebrating this year I am turning 40, which I can't believe I often don't feel like it (until my legs start hurting🙃) and I don't really look my age, I have always been mistake for looking younger all of my life and as stated above I don't act my age and I see nothing wrong with that! 

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Tropical Dream Vacation- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a good summer so far. Like every summer I love doing tropical design and I am missing Hawaii so much right now and I want to go back so bad! If you are like me and dreaming of a tropical vacation this nail design well be great for us to create together. Today's design remind me of the beautiful ocean and the sunset, along with a yummy smoothie that you can find on a tropical vacation. 

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- Pretty& Polished- Sea Spray, China glaze- Shades of Paradise- Mer-Made For Bluer Waters, Holo Taco-Vacation collection-Beach Please, Sally Hansen- Triple Shine- Lemon Shark, OPI Hawaii- Is Mai Tai Croooked, and OPI- La Paz-itively Hot. 

Acrylic paint- Black, white, blue, yellow.

Nail art brushes- Thin detail, linear, and striper brushes.

Other- Makeup sponge for gradients, a small cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes, and Liquid latex for easy clean up when you are doing gradients. Also not pictured a Q-tip or cotton swab. 

Apply a topcoat to clean dry nails, and let that dry.

Polish- 

This is the base colors that you need for your gradients, always start off with the lights color. 

Thumb- Light shimmery ocean colored polish (China Glaze- Mer- Made For Bluer Waters)

Index, middle, ring and pinky finger nails- a yellow cream polish (Sally Hansen- Lemon Shark)

Sunset Gradient On the Index, Middle, Ring and Pinky Fingers: 

We will first start off with the sunset gradient, that kind of reminds me of a fruit smoothie. Take a makeup sponge, take a pink cream polish (OPI- La Paz-itively Hot), over lapping that polish just a little, polish with a light orange (OPI- Is Mai Tai Croooked) then over lapping that polish a little, lastly polish a yellow cream polish (Sally Hansen- Lemon Shark.)

For easy clean up if you are not allergic to liquid latex, apply a liquid latex (I use the Holo Taco one) around all the fingers. 

Now take your makeup sponge with the pink side facing your cuticle and dab on your nail, you will have to repeat the steps that you just did above for each nail. You always need to reapply your polish on the sponge for each nail. 

Once you are finished with your gradient peel off your liquid latex if you applied one to your fingers. 

Beach Scene On The Ring Finger Nail:

On the ring finger nail we will create the beach scene. If you don't have a light blue paint, first take some white paint and a little blue and mix those to together. Take a thin striper brush with a darker blue paint on it, near the tip of the nail make a thin line for your ocean, also on the side of the nail make a slanted line for where the ocean and the sand will be. Leave some space on the side of the nail for some sand, by polishing a sand colored polish (Holo Taco- Beach Please.)

Back to the ocean water, take a detail brush with a blue on it and near the line we just made paint this area with the blue, then with the lighter blue near the tip of the nail paint that area. Try to blend the two colors together where they meet. 

For the ocean waves take a thin striper brush with white paint on it, where the light and the dark blue meet make a thin line, while that is till wet take a clean dry liner brush, push that wet paint upward to make a wave. Then where the water and the sand meet make a wavy line there as well. 

On the sand make a large palm tree, take a thin striper brush with black paint on it make a thin line from the sand, then two curved lines on each side, two more from that, and lastly one form the top for your palm tree. Then for your palm leaves make very small lines on each of the lines you just made (this is very tedious, but looks great in the end) 

Next for the final touches, we will make the sun, first to make an outline we will make a half oval with white paint, then once that dries go over that with yellow paint. To show the glow from the sun, take a little bit of the yellow and paint that around the sun. 

Lastly we will make two very small birds in the sky, by making to small v shapes near the cuticle. 

Ocean On The Thumb Nail: 

For the last part of the nail design we will create the ocean. First we need to create the gradient just like the sunset gradient we did above, we will repeat the same steps.For the colors start with a darker holo blue (Pretty& Polished- Sea Spray), then the same as your base color (China glaze- Mer-Made For Bluer Waters) and lastly a sand colored polish (Holo Taco- Beach Please). You will need to dab the nail a few times to be opaque. 

For your the final touches for your ocean nail take a thin striper brush with white paint on it, make a wavy line where the ocean and the water meet and while it is still wet with a clean linear brush push that paint upward. Then for a final touch take a Q-tip with white paint on it and dab that on the wave you just made to give that bubble look that the ocean sometimes has. 

Once your tropical nail design is all ready for your next vacation or you are just dreaming of one, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last.

Practice Design 

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical dream vacation design! 

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Late Night Beach Walk- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy belated 4th of July! Hope everyone had a safe and happy fourth. It's that time of year again when we create beautiful tropical nail art. Around this time last year we where getting ready to go to Hawaii, I miss that place so much, the island is so beautiful and I hope that it will not be another 10 years before we go back. Tropical designs are one of my favorite design to do, so today we will be creating a beautiful walk on the beach design, this was one of my favorite things to do in Hawaii, just walk on the beach at night time or during the day.

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this late night beach walk design: 

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

Polishes- Zoya- Splash- Jessica, OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini, Zoya- Twinkling Collection- Jen, Holo Taco-Toppers- Scattered, Holo Taco- Toppers- Flakie and Cover Girl- Boundless color- Disco Dazzle (this polish is very old and I know that you can't find it an stores anymore.) 

Acrylic paint- Blue, black, and white.

Nail art brushes- Thin striper, linear and detail brushes. 

Other- Water to clean off your brushes and a makeup sponge for gradients. Also for easy clean up liquid latex. 

Apply a top coat to clean dry nails, let that dry.

For all of the nails polish them with a purple polish, this is your base color (OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini) 

Let that dry.

For this design we will be creating a gradient on all of the nails, and the tropical scene will be on the middle and ring finger nails. 

Purple and Blue Gradient on all of the nails:

First we will create the purple and blue gradient. Take a makeup sponge polish your dark blue polish (Zoya- Jen), then the polish that you used for your base color (OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini), lastly the grape toned purple polish(Zoya- Jessica.) For best results it is best to kind of over lap the polishes on the sponge. 

For an easy clean up apply a liquid latex (I used the Holo Taco one) around all of the fingers, and let that dry. 

On most of the nails except the thumb, take the part of the sponge that has the blue polish on it and dap that closes to the cuticle, and the thumb nail do the opposite, the blue part near the tip of the nails. You will need to repeat the first steps and the dabbing part probably one more time to be opaque. 

Once your gradient looks good, take some twisters and take off the liquid latex. 

Tropical Design on the Middle and Ring Finger Nails: 

Now for the tropical sunset set with stars in the sky. First on the tip of the nails with a striper brush with blue paint on it, make a tin line near the tip of the nail, fill that in with blue paint for the ocean. 

For the ring finger take a linear brush with black paint on it and on the left side make a rectangle shape that is rounded at the edge, or just a blob like rock formation, and fill that in. Then also on the left side make a palm tree coming out of the rock you just made. (I will not be explaining how to create a palm tree because I have done so many times before in other post.)

Once you have your island you can make the waves in the water, take a thin striper brush with white paint on it make one small wavy line then take a clean brush and swipe up on that line to kind of smudge up that line to make a wave. Repeat that step one more time for one more wave. 

Then repeat that step in the sky where the water and the sky meet, to make clouds. 

On the middle finger repeat the same steps as the ring finger nail, just make your little island on the left side of the nail. 

For the final touch we will need a stars in the sky, we will do that by just adding glitter. First take a scattered holo polish and polish that on the blue part of your gradient, then take a flakie holo polish and polish right over the scattered holo. Lastly take your polish that has the larger holo glitters in it and taking a toothpick take out around three large glitter pieces and place then in the blue part of the sky. 

Once your tropical beach walk nails are all set for your late night beach walk, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to add a shine along with helping them to last though your tropical vacation.

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical nail design, and if you are dream of another tropical vacation like I am hopefully this helps you to also just think of the true beauty that is in this world.

As always here is the practice version.

See you next time for more nail fun!