A Day At The Beach- Summer Beach Nail Design

Hello everyone! Sorry that I have not posted anything in a few weeks, I have just have had a lot of things coming up. Anyways this design I did a few weeks ago on my nails and now I am just now getting around to showing all of you. We will be creating a beach summer themed nail design, even though summer is sadly and way to quickly coming to an end. My favorite part of summer has always been just spending a relaxing day in the water at the beach, so what better way to celebrate the closing of summer then with a beach themed design. I mean after all even if summer might be ending their is still most likely still going to be some summer like weather for a little while longer, unless you live somewhere where it is warm year round.

  

Summer Beach Nail Design

Here are the polishes and tools used to create this beach nail design:  

 

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

Nail polishes- Finger paints- Tiffany imposter, China glaze- Shades of Paradise- Mer-Made For Bluer Waters, and Revlon- Gold Coin.

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

Other- Makeup sponge, and a small jar/ cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes.

 

 Summer Beach Nail Design

On clean nails apply a thin layer of base coat, then let that dry.

Then polish your thumb and pinky nail with a shimmery ocean blue (I used China Glaze- Mer-Made For Bluer Waters), your index and middle finger with a gold polish (I used Revlon- Gold Coin) and then polish your ring finger nail with a light blue (I used Finger paints- Tiffany imposter.) 

Let that dry as well.

 

 

 Summer Beach Nail Design

Flip Flop on the index and middle nail, gold polish background:

  

We will start off with the flip flops on the index and middle finger nail. Take your thin liner brush with white or what ever colored paint you would like, and near the cuticle make a circle and then an oval that is attach to that to make the flip flop shape, then fill that in. 

For this you can make stripes of just leave it a sold color, for the design I did I decided to add stripes. For the stripes take a thin stripper brush with a light colored blue or once again what ever color you would like, then leave some white at the top for a white stripe, and then make a line under that for a blue stripe and then another under that, then fill that in with the light blue to make a thicker stripe. Repeat this step done the flip flop, I did this three times. 

Once you have your stripes we will add some of the bottom of the flip flop showing on the side. First take your stripping brush with black paint on it and outline the whole flip flop, then on one side make that part much thicker, to kind of show the bottom of the flip flop showing from the side.

Lastly we will add the strap that hold your foot into your flip flops. Once again take your thin stripper brush with black paint on it and make a V shape in the middle of your flip flop, you will need to go over this a few time to make it a little bit thicker.

 

 Summer Beach Nail Design

Beach ball in the water on the ring finger nail:

Once you have your flip flops done, on to the beach ball in the water. First we will make the small waves in the water. Take some white paint and make it runny by adding water to it. Then take a makeup sponge and lightly dab it into the paint, then lightly dab it on to the nail to give a small wave effect.  

On to the beach ball, take your detail brush with white paint on it and make a circle near the tip of your nail. Then make three triangle shapes on the white circle; in red, yellow and blue. Then make a small white circle in the middle of the ball.

 

 Summer Beach Nail Design

Here is the Practice design that I did.

Once your nails are beach ready apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last through your beach adventure.  

Hope all of you enjoined this summer beach nail design and enjoy the rest of the summer as well.

See you next time for more nail fun!