Also the tropical design is all created with acrylic paint and a white polish as the base (the part you can't see under the tropical design.)
Tropical Sunset Nail Design
Here are the nail polishes, paints, and nail art tools used to create this warm tropical nail design:
Base and top coat - CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.
Nail polishes- Sally Hansen- xterme wear- Sun kisses and Essie- Coconut Cove (this is your base color for your tropical design)
Acrylic paint- White, black, red, blue, and yellow.
Nail art brushes- Medium flat brush, small fan brush, small detail brush, and a stripper brush.
Other- small cup or jar with water in it to clean off your nail art brushes.
Let's get ready for a nice, warm, and sunny tropical vacation!
Tropical Sunset Nail Design
As always start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails and to help your tropical design to last through your vacation.
Let your base coat dry.
Once your base coat has dried polish your thumb and pinky finger nail orange, these will stay as is with no nail art on them. Then polish your index, middle, and ring finger nail with a white/ or off white polish. I only applied one coat of the white polish, this will act as your base (will not show at all on the nails) because the whole tropical design is done with acrylic paint and the paint does still need a polish base to stick to.
Tropical Sunset Nail Design
These steps need to be repeated on all three nails.
* Paints colors you will need for the sky: yellow, orange (I mixed red and yellow to make orange), and red.*
Let your base polish colors dry. Then on to the tropical design on our three fingers. On a flat medium size brush near the cuticle paint yellow, then orange right under the yellow, then red under the orange, make sure each color over lapses each other, this is for blending each color.
Then while the paint is still wet take a fan brush and blend the colors together, if the colors seem to blend away take a small amount of that color on the fan brush and paint over that part. I did end up having to to this few times.
*Paints colors you will need for the ocean: dark blue, light blue (just add white to the darker blue), and white.*
Under the sky take a dark blue paint and paint that near the tip of the nail for the ocean. You will need to go over this another time for it to be opaque.
Then once that has dried some, take your light blue paint and go over the darker blue, so the colors blend and then add some white paint to the water as well so that also blends. I tried to make it look like a wave, but I'm not to sure that is look like one because my canvas is so small and that is hard to do on a small scale.
For the land take a small detail brush with black paint on it and make a thin black line near the tip of the nail, on the index nail make a small hill, also the lines do not have to be straight I made my lines more curved.
Also I suggest for this part to use a black polish because the black paint seems to wear away faster then polish because it is on the tips of the nail, where you get the most wear/ chipping.
Tropical Sunset Nail Design
For the sun on the middle finger, first make a oval shape with white paint, that way the yellow sun will show up, and then make a half circle on each side of the other two nails. Then fill that in with yellow paint.
Next on to the one big palm tree on the index nail. Take your thin stripper brush with black paint on it, from the left hand corner make a long curved line for the tree trunk.Then make four curved lines and two straight lines for the outline of the palm tree, then you just add small lines to the branches for the palm leaves.
On the ring finger nail you need to make another part of the land near the sun and kind of on the top part of the water. You just need to make a slanted line, a straight line and fill that in for your land.
For the two palm trees repeat the steps for the larger palm tree that we just made on the index nail. Just make one taller then the other.
Tropical Sunset Nail Design
For this design you most likely will need to go over some parts a few time to make the colors blend together good and for them to fully show up/ be opaque enough.
Once you have your tropical design ready for your vacation, apply a top coat to help your design to last thought your whole vacation.
Tropical Sunset Nail Design, practice
Also I always practice whatever nail designs I am going to do, and I really liked how this design turned out, so I thought I would share it with all of you. I really think the sky turned out to look very cool and like fire.
Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical sunset nail design and hopefully your next tropical vacation will happen sooner then later, that's what I sure hope for.
See you next time for more bright and fun nails!
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