Under the sea- coral reef nail design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we will be creating a coral reef nail design. I don't know about all of you but I would love to be on a nice tropical beach right now, or really any beach, but with everything that is going on in the world it's not to safe right now. So I thought we could bring the beach/ocean to us, on our nails.

Coral Reef Nail Design

Here are the polish and nail art tools used to create this reef nail design:

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

Polishes- Zoya- Splash- Harbor, Zoya- Splash- Maren, and Picture Polish- Salt Water- Nailstorming.

Acrylic paint- red, blue, green, white, brown, peach and light yellow.

Nail art brush- thin detail brush.

Other- Make up sponge and water to clean off your nail art brush.

 Coral Reef Nail Design

Apply base coat, let that dry.

Polish-

Thumb- a light shimmer blue (optional)

Index, middle, ring, and pinky- greenish blue.

Let that dry.

Coral Reef Nail Design

For this nail design we will just be creating it on the index, middle and ring finger nail.

First we need to create the gradient. Take a makeup sponge with the same base color and polish that on the sponge and the take a dark blue polish and polish that on as well. Then dab the sponge on the nail to blend the the gradient together. Then let that dry.    

Next  we need to make the sand. On the tip of the nail paint that with peach and then add some brown paint to that. Paint that kind of like a french manicure, but it’s ok if it’s not straight it can be a little curved. 

Coral Reef Nail Design 

Once your gradient has dried. We will do create the nail art. Starting with the index nail, take a thin detail brush with blue paint on it and on the left side of the nail make a long line and then two lines at the bottom of that large line and then two smaller lines at the top. For the next coral, take that same detail brush with a light green on it and make a long line on the left side of the nail then a short line near the top. Next to that make a shorter line with a small line at the top.

The middle finger is similar to the index nail. Take your detail brush with with red on it, make a curved line on the sand and have four lines coming from that, then make a few small lines from that. Then just like the index nail make a the same green coral in the middle of the nail. Also on the red coal you make some small yellow dots on it. 

Coral Reef Nail Design 

For the pinky nail this nail is similar to the index nail, it is just like the blue coral that we made. Also you can make small yellow dots on the coal as well.

Lastly on the ring finger we will make a star fish. Make a large star shape with brown paint, then once that is dry add some peach dots on the points of the star fish.  

Coral Reef Nail Design  

Once you have you coal reef the way you like, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help to to last. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this coral reef nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!