Golden Autumn Leaves- Fall Nail Design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a nice fall. This year has been a weird fall, especially where I live it has been warm for fall, now that it is the end of November it is starting to feel cold and more fall or winter like. Anyways today we have matte and glossy fall nail design that we will be creating. The leaves will be on a brown matte background and just to add some color, we will be add some gold as well.

 

Fall Leaves Nail Design  

Here are the nail polishes and tools used for this fall design: 

  

Base and Top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat, Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat, for a matte look; NYC- Matte Me Crazy topcoat.

Nail polishes- NYC- Brownstone, Revlon- Gold Coin, and China glaze- white on white.

Acrylic paint- white, red, yellow, blue. (red & yellow to make orange, and red, yellow, and blue to make brown.) 

Nail art tools- a thin detail and liner brush and a small dotting tool.

Other- small glass jar or cup with water in it to clean nail art brushes. 

Let's start this fall design! 

Close up of leaf design on middle and ring finger nail. 

 
 Close up of leaf design on thumb nail.

Start off with a thin layer of base coat, to protect your nails. 

Then polish your ring, middle, and thumb nail brown and your pinky and index finger nail gold.

Once your base color has dried, we will first make the outline of the leaves with white paint, this will help the colors for the leaves to stand out.  

On all three nails I made a few random leaf shapes, their really is no certain way that you do this design.  You can make a simple leaf with only one point, or a leaf with more then one point.

Once you have the white outline of the leaves and that has dried, you take an orange, red and yellow paint and start to paint the leaves. For example some of the leaves I would start off with a yellow and then take a orange and go over that, while some yellow is still showing. For the leaves it is okay if you don't clean off your brush each time, it gives a nice blend of color when you do this. 

When you have the leaves the colors that you want, take a brown paint or if you don't have one mix red, yellow and a little bit of blue to make a brown. This will be for the vein of the leaves. For the veins just make a line down the center then, a few lines to follow the outline of the leaves.

When I had added all of the leaves to the design, it just felt like it was missing something. So with a small dotting tool I added a few white dots with some white polish, making sure to add just a few, that way you can still see the brown background.

 

 Fall Leaves Nail Design.

Then once your fall nail design has dried apply a glossy top coat to all of your nails. Once your glossy top coat has dried, on the nails that you did the fall leaves design on apply a matte top coat to give this design a different look. You may need to go over the glossy top coat again to make sure your nails are all matte.

I thought adding the matte top coat on the leaf design would be great for a fall look, along with a touch of sparkle/ color with a glossy gold color. Also the white dots I put into this design kind of look like snow, and this is kind of fitting for the weird fall that we have been having (depending on where you live) because one day this week the weather was in the 70's the next day in the 30's and light snow. I know crazy! 

 

 

   Fall Leaves design on middle and ring finger nail

Want another option? On my right hand I did the leaf design on just my middle and ring finger nail and polished my thumb, index and pinky gold. This maybe an even simpler option for you, if you just want the design on two finger or you could even just do this design on your ring finger as a accent nail.

Hope all of you enjoyed this fall leaf design! Also have a nice Thanksgiving!

See you next time for more nail fun!