Tropical sunset nail design
Here are the nail polishes, paints, and nail art tools used for this tropical design:
Base and Top coat - CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.
Nail polishes- Essie- Coconut Cove (your base color that goes under your tropical design), OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini, Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart (for the tips of your nails.)
Acrylic paint- black, white, red, yellow, and blue.
Nail art brushes- Flat large brush, fan brush and stripper brush.
Small jar or cup of water to clean off our nail art brushes.
Let's start this sunset in paradise nail design!
Tropical sunset nail design
Before I start this post I just want to say that this design is very similar to the Fiery sunset design that I created a few weeks ago, so I will be taking a lot of the wording from that post and putting it into this one. Of course some of the different is this one is on two nails, a darker sunset and just palm trees, but for the most part this has the same concept, Anyways.
As always start off with a thin layer of base coat, and then let that dry.
Once
your base coat has dried polish your index, middle, and pinky finger nail with a purple polish (I used OPI- Lost my Bikini in Molokini), these will stay as is with no nail art on them.
Then polish your thumb and ring finger nail with a white/ or off white polish, this is where will be creating our nail design. 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 the thumb and ring finger nail, that we will be creating the tropical design.
* Paints colors you will need for the sky: dark blue, light blue, white, purple (which you can't really see in this design, but it's their), pink, red, orange, and red.*
Let your base polish color dry. Then for the topical design on the thumb and ring finger nail. On a larger flat brush near the cuticle paint a dark blue, then a light blue, then have a small bit of purple and pink in the corner. Then with the fan brush (while the paint is still kind of wet) start to blend those together, you will need to go over this a few time for the sky to be opaque. I did the blue, darker part first and then went to the orange, red part.
Then after I got the first part of the sky the way I wanted, I moved on the the secound half the red and orange part. On that same brush I took orange and yellow and red and blend them together.
*For the sky it does take kind of a lot of blending and adding more paint to get the sky the way you want it, sometimes I had to add more of a color in to have it look just right because some of the sky would look to dark or to light.*
For the smaller palm trees repeat the last step with fewer curved lines.
Let your base polish color dry. Then for the topical design on the thumb and ring finger nail. On a larger flat brush near the cuticle paint a dark blue, then a light blue, then have a small bit of purple and pink in the corner. Then with the fan brush (while the paint is still kind of wet) start to blend those together, you will need to go over this a few time for the sky to be opaque. I did the blue, darker part first and then went to the orange, red part.
Then after I got the first part of the sky the way I wanted, I moved on the the secound half the red and orange part. On that same brush I took orange and yellow and red and blend them together.
*For the sky it does take kind of a lot of blending and adding more paint to get the sky the way you want it, sometimes I had to add more of a color in to have it look just right because some of the sky would look to dark or to light.*
Tropical sunset nail design
Now on to the land and the palm trees. Take a black nail polish (that way it last longer and it doesn't tend to rub of) and make the tip of your nails black, kind of like a french manicure.
For the palm tree we will first make a the large palm tree in the middle of the nail, then the two small palm trees next to it.
Take your thin stripper brush with black paint on it, from the middle of the nail make a long straight line for the tree trunk.Then make six
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.
For the smaller palm trees repeat the last step with fewer curved lines.
Tropical sunset nail design
Once you have your sky colors blended the way you like and your palm trees as well, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to make it nice and shinny.
Tropical sunset nail design
For this nail design it is best to use acrylic paint, it would probably be hard and kind or impossible to blend regular nail polish, but if you use gel polish this could probably be done that way, I just have never tried it that way.
Also if you did not check out the fiery sunset nail design, check that one out as well.
https://munchkinsmagnificentmanis.blogspot.com/2018/07/fiery-sunset-tropical-sunset-nail-design.html
Anyways I hope all of you are having a nice summer and enjoined this tropical nail design!
See you next time for more bright and fun nails!
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