Sunrise Sunset- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! As summer is winding down, we have another tropical design that we will be creating today, a sunset tropical nail design. I don't know about all of you but I am not ready for summer to end, it always goes to fast and the cold winter months last way to long, so why not try and extend the summer even if it is just on our nails.

Here are the polish and nail art tool used to create this sunset or sunrise nail design:

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and CND Super Shiney Top Coat.

Polishes- Holo Taco- Purple Slushie- Rainbow Collection, Holo Taco- Hot - Wire Pink- Electric Holo Collection, OPI Hawaii- Is Mai Tai Croooked, OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini, and OPI- La Paz-itively Hot. 

Acrylic paint- black, blue, yellows and white. 

Nail art brushes- thin stripper and liner brush, and a small flat brush, also a makeup sponge. 

Other- water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Apply base coat, let that dry.

Polish- 

Thumb, middle, ring finger nails- Orange (OPI Hawaii- Is Mai Tai Croooked) *This is the nails that will have the nail art on it, and the orange is you base color.*

Index nail- holographic purple (Holo Taco- Purple Slushie)

Pinky finger nail- holographic pink (Holo Taco- Hot - Wire Pink)

Let that dry.

We will first start off with the design on our middle and index nail. On the middle, index's and thumb nail we will be creating a gradient on all of those nails.

Purple, pink and orange gradient: 

On the thumb, middle and index nail take make up sponge and first polish a purple on the sponge, then a bright pink, and the same orange that you used as your base color. Staring near the cuticle, with the purple (on the middle and ring finger) On the thumb start with purple on the tip of the nail, dab the sponge on the nails to make a gradient. Also make sure to leave some space near the tip of the nails for the water.

You will need to do this step few time so your gradient will be opaque. 

Once you have your gradient the way you like, take a blue paint or polish and paint the tip of the nail for the water.  Also for an add touch to the water take a very small amount of white paint and paint a few random lines and the right away smudge the lines, for some waves in the water.

Sun on the middle and ring finger nail:

For the sun first take a small brush with white paint on it and make a half circle on each nail right on the edge of the nails, try to make sure they line up if the nails where side by side. Then go over the white with a yellow paint a few time. Then take a small amount of yellow and put some around the sun and in the water for a refection. 

Palm trees- 

On the middle finger nail on the left side, make a full palm tree. 

On the index nail make just one palm leaf on the right side.

Palm trees on the thumb nail: 

On the thumb nail make a small palm tree and then a bigger palm tree. Along with a small island that the palm trees will be on. 

Cloud in the sky: 

For your final touch add a few cloud in the sky, by taking a small flat brush with a small amount of white paint on it and dab the brush in the shape of a cloud. On the thumb I mad three clouds. The middle and index two small clouds.

Once you have your nails the way you like and they are sunset or sunrise ready, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last. 

Here is the practice version that I always due as well.

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical nail design, to help the summer to last just a little bit longer.I did really like how this one came out, it did turn out really good.

See you next time for more nail fun! 

No Socks and Flops- Beach Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating a flip flop/ beach nail design, I know I am a little behind on this design, seeing how we are at the end of summer, or according to stores and the media we are already in fall/ Halloween season. But oh well, I still want to create a beach and tropical designs, after this one I do have one more tropical design already done, I just have to do a post on it. This summer we have been doing kind of a lot and I have not had much time on the weekend/ during the week for nail art.

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

Top and base coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and CND Super Shiney Top Coat.

Polishes- Sally Hansen- Insta Dri- Peeps Blue and Glam Polish- Sandy toes anything goes- Beauty and the beach. 

Acrylic paint- Blue, white, red, yellow, greens, peach and brown.

Nail art brushes- Thin stripper and detail brush, and a flat brush.

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Apply a base to clean dry nails.

Let that dry.

Polish- 

Thumb, middle, and ring- light blue (Sally Hansen- Insta Dri- Peeps Blue) 

*This is your base color for the ocean/ beach design no the middle and ring finger nail, your water is all done with acrylic paint, but you still need nail polish as a base for the paint to stick to.*

Index and pinky nail- ocean blue with iridescent flakes (Glam Polish- Sandy toes anything goes)

Let that dry. 

Beach/ Ocean Design on the Middle and Index Nails:

For your beach you will need two shades of blue, a dark and a light blue. For the light blue, I just mixed the dark blue and white to make the light blue that I wanted.

Starting near the cuticle, leaving a small bit o space, take your flat brush with the dark blue paint and swim to across the nail, do the same with the light blue. You will need to do this a few time to be opaque, also make sure to blend the two colors together when you paint the nails.

For the sand just mix a peach with a very small amount of brown to make your sand.

For the final touch in the water, take a thin detail brush with a very small amount of white paint on it make a few random lines in the blue, then before it dries smudge the lines to make waves.

Flip Flops on the Thumb Nail:

For the flip flop on the thumb I mixed red and orange to make a reddish orange for the flops. For the green plants on the flops I mixed green and white for a lighter green. 

For the flip flop shape, you first will start with the base of the flip flop where your heel of the foot goes, by making a long oval shape, then for the area where the toes go make a circle, these two shapes connect to make your flop.

Repeat this step for your next flip flop, you can make them right next to each other like I did, or you can leave some space in-between them. 

For the part the flop that goes in between your toes make a thick V shape with white, then go over the white with orange, that way the orange will show.

Lastly for the final touches you can outline the flop with white and also add some green plants/ flowers to your flip flops. 

Once your nails are beach ready, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last though your last minute beach trips, unless you are lucky to leave somewhere where you can go to the beach year round.

Hope all of you enjoyed this beach nail design and that everyone is having/ had a nice summer.

As stated above I have one more tropical sunset nails design as summer is winding down. 

See you next time for more nail fun!