Watermelon Yum- Watermelon Nail Design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is enjoying this all of a sudden really hot weather, well if you live in the area that I am from, I'm not to sure about other areas. Anyways when you think of really hot weather or summer time you may think of going to the beach or having a picnic. When it comes to fruit, a nice refreshing fruit might come to mind like watermelon, which I actually don't like the way watermelon taste (I know weird), but I thought this would be a cute design to create for this time of year.  

 Watermelon Nail Design

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

  

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

Nail polish- OPI- Hello Kitty- 5 Apples Tall, OPI Hawaii- My Gecko Does Tricks, and Sinful Color- HD Nails. 

Acrylic paint- White and black 

Nail art tools- medium dotting tool and two thin detail brushes.

Other- small glass jar with acetone in it to clean nail art brushes, and a cup with water in it to clean off nail art brushes.

Let's start this refreshing watermelon nail design!

 

 Watermelon Nail Design

As always start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails. 

Once your base coat has dried polish your thumb, middle and ring finger nail a watermelon red or a red color that kind of looks like it would close to a watermelon color. Your index and pinky finger nail polish that green.

Once your base colors of red and green have dried, we will start to make our nails look like watermelons. We will first start off with the inside of the watermelon on the thumb, middle, and ring finger nail. 

Take the same green polish that you used on your index and pinky nail, and paint the tip of your nails, kind of like a french manicure. 

Once that has dried we will paint the white part of the watermelon. I used acrylic paint for this, that way I could keep trying to fix the line and build up the white, but you can always use a white polish as well. Also for this part I would say it would be best to use nail art tape to try and get the line to be even, which I had issues with and didn't think of until I was finished with this design. 

For the white part take a thin detail brush with white paint or polish and make a thick line above the green part. If you use nail art tape place two piece of the tape, one on the top near your green tip and then leave some space, then add another piece and then fill that in with white paint or polish, then right away take off the nail art tape.

Next we will make the seeds, take a medium size dotting tool with black paint or polish on it and make three dots, then with a thin detail brush make a thin line from each dot. 

 

 Watermelon Nail Design

Now on to the outside of the watermelon, on your index and pinky finger nail. Take a thin detail brush with a darker green polish on it and make a few squiggly lines, you may need to go over the lines another time to make sure they are fully opaque. Depending on your nail size you can make three or more or less lines, I ended up making three lines. 

 

Watermelon Nail Design

Once you have finished your yummy watermelon nail design apply a to coat to seal in your design and help it to last through your summer picnic. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this watermelon nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!