Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Fall in Paradise- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a nice fall so far. Today on the blog we will be creating one more tropical design, with a fall look to it with three fall like colors to give a fall in paradise look to the nails. I think this is the best way to spend your fall or any season if you can, in paradise, if you can't then this design is perfect for you if you are like me and dream of a tropical vacation year round/ all the time. 

Tropical Nail Design

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this fall in paradise nail look:

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

Polishes- Holo Taco- Orange Drink- Rainbow Collection, OPI Lisbon- Now Museum Now You Don't, Zoya- Ziv, and Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart. 

Acrylic paint- Black

Nail art brushes- Thin detail and stripper brushes.

Other- Makeup sponge for gradients, Holo Taco liquid latex for easy clean up around the nails, a small cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes. 

Tropical Nail Design

Apply a base coat to clean dry nails, then let that dry.

Polish- 

Index and pinky nails- a brick red (OPI- Now Museum Now You Don't)

Thumb, middle and ring finger nails- Orange holographic, this is your base color for the gradient (Holo Taco- Orange Drink.) 

Let that dry.


Sunset Gradient- 

To start off and to make things easy to clean up, if you have a liquid latex apply that around the finger. (I used Holo Taco's) 

For the sunset gradient we will be creating a gold, orange and red gradient for our fall inspired sunset. First take a makeup sponge and first polish a gold polish (Zoya- Ziv), then an orange holo the same color as your base polish color (Holo Taco- Orange Drink), and then a brick red, the same polish you used on the index and pinky nail (OPI- Now Museum Now You Don't). It is ok if the polishes overlap on the sponge, it is actually better if they do overlap, that way the gradient will blend better. 

Then dab the sponge on the thumb, middle, and ring finger nails, you will need to do this a few time to be opaque, I did this three times. 

Once your gradient is just right peel off your liquid latex, if you used one. 

Lastly apply a top coat this helps the gradient to blend better. Let that dry.

Tropical Nail Design

Tropical Nail Design

Palm Tree Design:

First off on the thumb nail make a large palm tree in the middle of the nail.

For the middle and ring finger nail make two palm trees one on the left side that is tall, then one on the right side that is shorter. 

Then on just the middle and ring finger we will make a small piece of land with black polish on the tip of the nails make a French tip like shape, it doesn't need to be perfect. 

Tropical Nail Design

Once your nails are fall in paradise ready apply another top coat to all of the nails to seal in your design and to help last. 


Tropical Nail Design

Here is the practice design of fall in paradise.

Hope all of you enjoyed this fall in paradise nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!