Tropical Fun in the Sun- One Stroke Flower

Hello everyone! For today we will be getting back into doing nail art, it had been a few weeks since I had done a post and last week I did a review for all of you. Do to my schedule, I do have some time to get back to doing the M.M.M blog, but for the step-by- step tutorials of nail designs, I will be changing up the post to save some time. I hope all of you still enjoy these nail art post.

For today we will be creating a one stroke/ double loaded brush tropical flower, as an accent nail on our left hand, and then another more simple flower on the right accent finger nail.

   

 Hibiscus one stroke flower on the ring finger nail, left hand.

 

Tropical flower on the ring finger, right hand.

The polishes and tools that we will be using to creating this great for summer/ tropical vacation flower design:

  

Base coat & Top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Nail polishes- Zoya- Oceane and Cover Girl- Glosstinis Blue Hawaiian.

Acrylic paint- Red, white, yellow, green, and black.

Nail art brushes- a small to medium flat brush, thin linear brush, and a detail brush.   

For now I will not be doing step by step tutorials of the nail art that we will be creating, but I will still explain how each design is made, along with all the polishes, paints and tools used for each design. 

 

 More of a close up of the Hibiscus flower.

First we will start off with the one stroke or the double loaded brush flower. You may wonder why it is called this, well in order to create this flower you need to take to colors on a flat brush, one side a light pink and the other yellow. 

Then on a flat surface, just swipe the brush to kind of pre-blend the colors together. 

After that starting near the side of the nail, take your brush a kind of rotate the brush on the side to make a petal, do this two or three more times to make more petals. The petals should go in a circular shape. You also may need to go over the petals two more time to make them opaque enough.

Once you have the petals looking okay, you take a thin nail art brush with black paint and outline the flower, this step really helps the flower to look more like a flower. 

Then you can add your leaves on the sides with two different shades of green, and then just adding in your small details for the flower, like the black lines in the center and the sides, and the white part of the flower.

For creating this flower I found that outlining it was the key to helping it look more like a hibiscus flower.   

 

Another example of the Hibiscus flower, this was the practice flower that I did. 

 

     Close up of the tropical flower on the right hand. 

Next we have another tropical flower that I did on my right hand using my non dominate hand (my left hand). This is another more simple option for creating a tropical flower. 

This flower you take a small nail art brush with a light pink paint, and just swipe the brush up ward to make a more pointed petal. You can do this four times to make four petals, also because this is on the side of the nail, you create the petals in a circular shape.

Then with a slightly darker pink outline the petals to make the flower pop or look more like a flower.

For the smaller details just paint a yellow circle in the center and with that same pink you used to outline the flower, draw some lines going out from that circle, then add some yellow lines as well.

After that just add some green leaves with two shades of green and then you have your flower.

If you would like you can add some more flowers or petals on the sides, if you feel like this nail needed something extra. 

        

    An example of the tropical flower, that  practice. 

  

 

 Another example of the two tropical flower that I practice. 

Hope all of you like the way I explained this nail art design even if it was not step by step.

As always hope all of you liked this tropical nail art design of the hibiscus flower and a simple tropical flower.

See you next time for more nail fun!