Back to School- Nail Design

Hello everyone! It's that time of year again when kids and college students go back to school, yes I am a week or so late for this design that we will be doing today, but I thought it would still be okay to do. For the few years that I have been doing this blog I have never created a back to school themed nail design, so I thought I would this year. For this design we will be creating crayons on most of or nails and a pencil on our ring finger nail.   

 

Back to school nail design

As always here are the polishes and nail art tools used for this back to school nail design:

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

Polishes- Zoya- Renee- Redbook trio, Sally Hansen- Triple Shine- Play Koi, Sinful Colors- HD Nails, OPI- Hello Kitty- My Pal Joey, Sally Hansen- Triple Shine- Lemon Shark, Sinful Colors-Let's Meet (optional), and OPI Hawaii- Do you take Lei away 

Acrylic paint- white, yellow, black, and red. 

Nail art brushes-  detail and liner brushes, and a stripper brush.

Let get ready for back to school with this fun and colorful nail design!

Back to school nail design  

Start off with a thin layer of base coat to protect your nails. Then let that dry.

Once your base coat has dried polish your thumb red, index nail orange, middle finger nail green, ring finger nail blue, and pinky finger nail yellow (for the yellow I did use two yellows, a creme yellow then a shimmery yellow this optional, I just felt like do that.)  

Let your colored polish dry as well.

 

Back to school nail design 

For all of our nails except our ring finger nail we will be making crayons on them. First we will start off with the crayon design. On all of our nails except our ring finger nail we will be making the thick black strip that is on crayons. Take a stripping brush with black paint on it and make a line kind of in the middle of the nail, then with some space in between that line make another line. Then with a liner or detail brush fill that in with black paint.

 

Red crayon design on thumb nail

Let that dry and then with what ever color your nails is make a squiggly line on the black strip, you will need to go over that one more time as well.  

Now you have some crayons on your nails.

 

 

 Back to school nail design 

Next on to the pencil on our ring finger nail. For this part I did first make an outline of the pencil with white paint, you don't have to do this I just did this to be on the safe side. 

Where the triangle part of the pencil is or where the lead is, fill that part in with black paint. Then the center part, with a peach colored polish and then the bottom part of the pencil with a yellow paint. For some smaller detail you can outline the pencil if you want to with black paint, and then make two or more long orange lines on the yellow part of the pencil.  

   

Back to school nail design  

Once you have your design the way you like apply a top coat to seal in your nails design, and to help your nails design to last all the way through your first and maybe even your first week of school.  

What was your favorite subject in school? My favorite subject was always art class, I have always enjoyed coloring, painting and drawing, so that was always my favorite class. My least favorite was math, I was never to good with numbers.

Hope all of you enjoyed this back to school nail design and for all of you that are going back to school hope you have a great school year!

See you next time for more nail fun!