Tropical Dream Vacation- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a good summer so far. Like every summer I love doing tropical design and I am missing Hawaii so much right now and I want to go back so bad! If you are like me and dreaming of a tropical vacation this nail design well be great for us to create together. Today's design remind me of the beautiful ocean and the sunset, along with a yummy smoothie that you can find on a tropical vacation. 

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

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

Polishes- Pretty& Polished- Sea Spray, China glaze- Shades of Paradise- Mer-Made For Bluer Waters, Holo Taco-Vacation collection-Beach Please, Sally Hansen- Triple Shine- Lemon Shark, OPI Hawaii- Is Mai Tai Croooked, and OPI- La Paz-itively Hot. 

Acrylic paint- Black, white, blue, yellow.

Nail art brushes- Thin detail, linear, and striper brushes.

Other- Makeup sponge for gradients, a small cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes, and Liquid latex for easy clean up when you are doing gradients. Also not pictured a Q-tip or cotton swab. 

Apply a topcoat to clean dry nails, and let that dry.

Polish- 

This is the base colors that you need for your gradients, always start off with the lights color. 

Thumb- Light shimmery ocean colored polish (China Glaze- Mer- Made For Bluer Waters)

Index, middle, ring and pinky finger nails- a yellow cream polish (Sally Hansen- Lemon Shark)

Sunset Gradient On the Index, Middle, Ring and Pinky Fingers: 

We will first start off with the sunset gradient, that kind of reminds me of a fruit smoothie. Take a makeup sponge, take a pink cream polish (OPI- La Paz-itively Hot), over lapping that polish just a little, polish with a light orange (OPI- Is Mai Tai Croooked) then over lapping that polish a little, lastly polish a yellow cream polish (Sally Hansen- Lemon Shark.)

For easy clean up if you are not allergic to liquid latex, apply a liquid latex (I use the Holo Taco one) around all the fingers. 

Now take your makeup sponge with the pink side facing your cuticle and dab on your nail, you will have to repeat the steps that you just did above for each nail. You always need to reapply your polish on the sponge for each nail. 

Once you are finished with your gradient peel off your liquid latex if you applied one to your fingers. 

Beach Scene On The Ring Finger Nail:

On the ring finger nail we will create the beach scene. If you don't have a light blue paint, first take some white paint and a little blue and mix those to together. Take a thin striper brush with a darker blue paint on it, near the tip of the nail make a thin line for your ocean, also on the side of the nail make a slanted line for where the ocean and the sand will be. Leave some space on the side of the nail for some sand, by polishing a sand colored polish (Holo Taco- Beach Please.)

Back to the ocean water, take a detail brush with a blue on it and near the line we just made paint this area with the blue, then with the lighter blue near the tip of the nail paint that area. Try to blend the two colors together where they meet. 

For the ocean waves take a thin striper brush with white paint on it, where the light and the dark blue meet make a thin line, while that is till wet take a clean dry liner brush, push that wet paint upward to make a wave. Then where the water and the sand meet make a wavy line there as well. 

On the sand make a large palm tree, take a thin striper brush with black paint on it make a thin line from the sand, then two curved lines on each side, two more from that, and lastly one form the top for your palm tree. Then for your palm leaves make very small lines on each of the lines you just made (this is very tedious, but looks great in the end) 

Next for the final touches, we will make the sun, first to make an outline we will make a half oval with white paint, then once that dries go over that with yellow paint. To show the glow from the sun, take a little bit of the yellow and paint that around the sun. 

Lastly we will make two very small birds in the sky, by making to small v shapes near the cuticle. 

Ocean On The Thumb Nail: 

For the last part of the nail design we will create the ocean. First we need to create the gradient just like the sunset gradient we did above, we will repeat the same steps.For the colors start with a darker holo blue (Pretty& Polished- Sea Spray), then the same as your base color (China glaze- Mer-Made For Bluer Waters) and lastly a sand colored polish (Holo Taco- Beach Please). You will need to dab the nail a few times to be opaque. 

For your the final touches for your ocean nail take a thin striper brush with white paint on it, make a wavy line where the ocean and the water meet and while it is still wet with a clean linear brush push that paint upward. Then for a final touch take a Q-tip with white paint on it and dab that on the wave you just made to give that bubble look that the ocean sometimes has. 

Once your tropical nail design is all ready for your next vacation or you are just dreaming of one, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last.

Practice Design 

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical dream vacation design! 

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Late Night Beach Walk- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy belated 4th of July! Hope everyone had a safe and happy fourth. It's that time of year again when we create beautiful tropical nail art. Around this time last year we where getting ready to go to Hawaii, I miss that place so much, the island is so beautiful and I hope that it will not be another 10 years before we go back. Tropical designs are one of my favorite design to do, so today we will be creating a beautiful walk on the beach design, this was one of my favorite things to do in Hawaii, just walk on the beach at night time or during the day.

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this late night beach walk design: 

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

Polishes- Zoya- Splash- Jessica, OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini, Zoya- Twinkling Collection- Jen, Holo Taco-Toppers- Scattered, Holo Taco- Toppers- Flakie and Cover Girl- Boundless color- Disco Dazzle (this polish is very old and I know that you can't find it an stores anymore.) 

Acrylic paint- Blue, black, and white.

Nail art brushes- Thin striper, linear and detail brushes. 

Other- Water to clean off your brushes and a makeup sponge for gradients. Also for easy clean up liquid latex. 

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

For all of the nails polish them with a purple polish, this is your base color (OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini) 

Let that dry.

For this design we will be creating a gradient on all of the nails, and the tropical scene will be on the middle and ring finger nails. 

Purple and Blue Gradient on all of the nails:

First we will create the purple and blue gradient. Take a makeup sponge polish your dark blue polish (Zoya- Jen), then the polish that you used for your base color (OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini), lastly the grape toned purple polish(Zoya- Jessica.) For best results it is best to kind of over lap the polishes on the sponge. 

For an easy clean up apply a liquid latex (I used the Holo Taco one) around all of the fingers, and let that dry. 

On most of the nails except the thumb, take the part of the sponge that has the blue polish on it and dap that closes to the cuticle, and the thumb nail do the opposite, the blue part near the tip of the nails. You will need to repeat the first steps and the dabbing part probably one more time to be opaque. 

Once your gradient looks good, take some twisters and take off the liquid latex. 

Tropical Design on the Middle and Ring Finger Nails: 

Now for the tropical sunset set with stars in the sky. First on the tip of the nails with a striper brush with blue paint on it, make a tin line near the tip of the nail, fill that in with blue paint for the ocean. 

For the ring finger take a linear brush with black paint on it and on the left side make a rectangle shape that is rounded at the edge, or just a blob like rock formation, and fill that in. Then also on the left side make a palm tree coming out of the rock you just made. (I will not be explaining how to create a palm tree because I have done so many times before in other post.)

Once you have your island you can make the waves in the water, take a thin striper brush with white paint on it make one small wavy line then take a clean brush and swipe up on that line to kind of smudge up that line to make a wave. Repeat that step one more time for one more wave. 

Then repeat that step in the sky where the water and the sky meet, to make clouds. 

On the middle finger repeat the same steps as the ring finger nail, just make your little island on the left side of the nail. 

For the final touch we will need a stars in the sky, we will do that by just adding glitter. First take a scattered holo polish and polish that on the blue part of your gradient, then take a flakie holo polish and polish right over the scattered holo. Lastly take your polish that has the larger holo glitters in it and taking a toothpick take out around three large glitter pieces and place then in the blue part of the sky. 

Once your tropical beach walk nails are all set for your late night beach walk, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to add a shine along with helping them to last though your tropical vacation.

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical nail design, and if you are dream of another tropical vacation like I am hopefully this helps you to also just think of the true beauty that is in this world.

As always here is the practice version.

See you next time for more nail fun!