Pineapple & Hibiscus- Tropical Fruit & Flowers Nail Design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is enjoying the somewhat end of summer. I still say it is summer until I think end of September and as long as it is still warm out. Anyways I still have a couple/ few tropical designs that I would like to make, this week we will be creating a pineapple, hibiscus flower design. In Hawaii I personal think the pineapple is the best it tastes so sweet and yummy and the hibiscus flower is one of the tropical flowers that can be found in Hawaii, that why I decided to make a tropical fruit and flower design.

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this Tropical fruit & flowers Nail Design-

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

Polishes- Sally Hansen- Insta Dri- Peeps Blue, Glam Polish- Aloha State of Mind- Aloha Spirit, and Glam Polish- Beauty and the beach-Sandy toes anything goes. 

Acrylic Paint- Red, white, green, yellow and brown. Mix red and white to make a medium pink and a light pink, then mix green and yellow to make a light green.

Nail art brushes- Thin striper and liner brush.

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes. 

Apply a top coat to clean dry nails, let that dry.

Polish- 

Thumb- Bright light blue (Sally Hansen- Insta Dri- Peeps Blue.)

Index and pinky- Teal with iridescent flakes ( Glam Polish- Aloha Spirit.)

Middle and ring- Light blue with iridescent flakes (Glam Polish-Sandy toes anything goes.)

Let that dry.

Pineapple on the Middle Finger Nail-

We will first start off with the pineapple, for the pineapple I first make an outline of the shape with white paint, so that yellow would pop more. First take your liner brush with white paint on it, on the middle of the nail make an oval shape and fill in your oval with white paint. Let that dry, this is where I would go to another nail and start that nail, for this tutorial we will stay on this nail. 

Once the outline has dried, fill in your oval shape with yellow paint. For the crown of the pineapple, take a light green paint first and make a few thick lines and then take a darker green and repeat.

For the lines on the pineapple take a thin striper brush with brown paint on it and make a few lines on the pineapple.

Hibiscus Flower on the Ring Finger-

Next we will make a pink hibiscus flower, for the petals we will make five heart shaped petals, starting with the petal on the left side of the nail and then two on the side and then two under those petals, you will need to fill in the petals with pink a few times to be opaque. 

This step is optional because it is a little hard, you can take a light pink on striper brush and outline your flower petals, also add a few lines on the petals for some depth. 

For the center part of the hibiscus first make the outline with white and then go over it with yellow, first make a long line from the center of the flower and then make a few small dots at the end.

The last step will be to make some green leaves, starting with the light green, then the dark green make a few thick lines from the top of the flower, the side, the part near the tip of the nail, and bottom part of the flower neat the tip of the nail.  
 

Pineapple and Hibiscus on the Thumb Nail-

On the thumb nail we will be making smaller version of the design that we made on the middle and ring finger nail. For the pineapple repeat the same steps just make the pineapple more off to the side of the thumb. 

For the hibiscus, we will make a red version of the flower and much smaller. Once again follow the steps that we did for the larger pink flower and make their flower slightly over lapping the pineapple on the lower left hand corner near the cuticle. 

Once your nails are good enough to eat, or not apply a top coat to seal in your nails and to help them to last. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical fruit and flower nail design! 

As always lately here is the practice version. 

See you next time for more nail fun!