Let it Burn- Fire Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating a simple nail design that is kind of abstract, a fire/ flame nail design. This design is inspired by a design that I saw on YouTube from a professional nail tech, her name is Suzie from Nail Career Education and she created a cool red hot flaming nail design like this one. She used gel polish for her design, we will use regular polish for our base color and acrylic paint for the flames. I just thought this design look so cool and that it would be fun and easy to recreate. 

 

Fire Nail Design

Here is the nail polish, paints, and tools used for this fiery nail design:  

 

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

I always use the same top and base, these work great for me so I see no reason to try anything new. 

Nail polish- Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart. All you will need is a black polish.

Acrylic paint- red, yellow, and orange (I use red and yellow paint to make the orange.)

Nail art brushes- a thin detail brush and a thin stripper brush.

Other- small cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Let's start this fiery hot nail design!

    Fire Nail Design, left hand

As always start off by applying a thin layer of base coat to all of your nails, and then let it dry.

Once your base coat has dried, polish all of your nails black. I personally think Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart is one of the best black polishes out their, it covers in one coat like a black polish should, and it is only a $1.99!

Let the black polish dry and then we will start to create our flames.

  

 Fire Nail Design, right hand

For the flames take three colors of paint yellow, red, and orange. With your detail brush with a lot of paint on the brush (you need a lot of paint to make sure the colors swirl together will), near the cuticle or tip of the nail (I started near the cuticle) make three lines of color right next to each other using the red, yellow, and orange. 

Then with your stripper brush start to swirl the colors together from side to side, and also make sure to make points at the end that look like flames.  

If needed you can always add more of one or more colors, to add more to the flame if you fell like the flames are lacking in color in certain areas. Their was a few times when I added a little more of each color, most of the time I felt like the flames needed more yellow.  

Fire Nail Design, left hand

 

Fire Nail Design, right hand

Once you have your flames as fiery red, yellow, and orange as you want apply a top coat to seal in your design. 

With any design that you use acrylic paint, make sure to apply enough top coat over the acrylic paint, so it does not look matte it looks shinny, this helps so your design will not rub off when you wash your hands or just use your hands in general.

 

 Fire Nail Design- left and right hand, right hand design looks more like flames? 

When I did this design on my right hand I actually like how it turned out better then on my left hand, I felt like the flames looked more flame like then on my right hand.  

Here is a link to Suzie's from Nail Career Education YouTube channel, where I got the inspiration for this design. Red Hot Flaming Nails- Nail Career Education  

Hope all of you enjoyed this nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Safe In My Shell- Turtle Nail Design

Hello everyone! Sorry that once again I have gone missing for a few weeks, life has just been kind of stressful and allergy season has really been bad for me. Anyways for this week we will be creating a cute turtle nail design, this design is inspired by my favorite online T-shirt company TeeTurtles. They have the cutest mascot, a turtle and I thought it would be cool to create a turtle nail design inspired by their mascot. 

 

Turtle Nail Design (Cute TeeTurtle Plushies)   

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

 

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

Polishes- Colors by llarowe- Arturo, KBShimmer- Peridot- August Birthstone, OPI Hawaii- My Gecko Does Tricks, and Sinful Color- HD Nails.

Acrylic paint- black, green, and yellow.

Nail art brushes- thin detail brush and a stripper brush.

Other- small cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Let start this cute turtle nail design!

  

Turtle shell nail design

As always start off with a thin layer of base to protect your nails and to help your polish to last. As always I used CND Stickey Base Coat, I love this base coat and don't want/ need to try any more base coats.

Let your base coat dry.

Once that has dried, we will polish our base colors, on your thumb,index, ring and pinky finger nail, polish that a light blue (I used Colors by llarowe- Arturo) and for your middle finger nail, polish that with a glittery green polish (I used KBShimmer- Peridot- August Birthstone.) Also for some reason the two KBShimmer birthstone polishes that I purchased a few years ago changed colors, which has never happen to any of my polishes.

Once your polishes has dried on to the fun part, the nail art. On the index and ring finger nail we will be create the turtle's shell. I used two different colored green polishes but you don't have to. On the index nail take a dark green polish (I used Sinful Color- HD Nails) and make a circle shape with the brush that is in the polish. Then if you would like, do the same thing with that same polish or a light green (I used OPI Hawaii- My Gecko Does Tricks) on the ring finger nail.

 

 Turtle shell nail design, left hand 

 

 Turtle shell nail design, right hand

Let the green circles dry and then with black paint outline the circle, then in the middle you can create a diamond shape or a rectangle in the middle of the circle, then make four lines going from each corner of the diamond or rectangle out toward the circle. 

   Turtle on thumb nail 

Last but not least is the cute turtle on the thumb nail. Make a medium size circle in the middle of the nail for his head and fill that in twice to be fully opaque, then make an oval shape for his body fill in his tummy with yellow, them make two arms and two legs, then on his tummy make a checker board pattern. Then lastly make to black dots for his eyes and a curved line for his smile. 

 

      Turtle Nail Design

Once you have your cute turtle nail design the way you like apply a top coat to seal in your design and help it to last. 

 

Turtle Nail Design, right hand design

Also here is the design that I created on my right hand, basically the same design just the turtle shells have rectangle in the middle. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this cute turtle nail design! 

See you next time for more nail fun!