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! 

Autumn Colors- Fall Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we will be creating a very simple fall nail design, with a fall colored gradient and some black colored leaves and branches, a long with a touch of gold glitter. 

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this fall nail design-

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

Polishes- Orly- Melting Point- Erupt To No Good, OPI Lisbon- Now Museum Now You Don't, and Holo Taco- 1st Anniversary- Gold Flakie. 

Acyclic paint- Black 

Other- Water for cleaning nail art brushes, makeup sponge for gradients, and liquid latex for easy clean up around the nails.

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

Polish all of the nails with a shimmer orange (Orly- Erupt To No Good.)

Let that dry. 

Fall Colored Gradient:

First we will start off with a gradient on all of the nails and we will also be doing nail art on all of the nails as well. 

First we need to apply a liquid around the fingers to help with clean up and to make doing gradients much easier. 

For the gradient part take a makeup sponge and polish a brick red polish on the sponge (OPI- Now Museum Now You Don't) and slightly over lapping the polish with the same color that we used as our base color the shimmer orange (Orly- Erupt To No Good.) The brick red should be near the tips of the nails.

Then dab the sponge on to each nail, you will need to repeat this step at least three times to be opaque.  

Once you have finished your gradient peel off your liquid latex with some tweezers. 

For an added touch polish a gold flakie polish over the nails, apply one coat for a subtle gold sparkle. 

Leaves and Branches Design on all of the Nails: 

On all of the nails we will be creating a simple nail design of leaves and branches. Take a thin striper brush with black paint on it and staring near the cuticle, on a corner of the nail, make a long straight line, on the end of the long line that you just made make a leaf shape, then on each side of the long line make a few shorter line and make a leaf shape at the end of those lines. 

On most of the nails I made four of these, also on some of the nails I just made a leaf shape. On almost all of the nails I created two of these design, the only nail that I did one is the pinky nail. 

Once your design is fall ready apply a top coat to seal in your design and add a nice shine to your nails, along with helping them last. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this simple fall nail design and are having a good fall!

Here is the practice version.

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Ocean Gradient- Blue Gradient Nails

Hello everyone! Today on the blog I felt like do another gradient, that is kind of summer like an ocean colored gradient. The polishes from the Starrily Northern Light collection were just calling to me to create an ocean like gradient, with a touch of gold glitter in the gradient, or that I just thought it would look pretty. Since trying the a liquid latex around my finger for gradients, it has been so much easier to do and I feel like I have gotten much better at gradients, if you are not allergic to latex and are having trouble with gradients this is a great way to improve on them, it's a game changer. 

Also if you if you have seen my other post this color combo might look a little familiar, I did create a tropical design this summer with a similar color palette, the dark blue was near the cuticle and the light was near the tips of the nails. If you missed that post and would like to check that out here is the link ocean-view-tropical-nail-design

Anyways back to the creating the nail gradient. Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this ocean gradient.

Base and Top coat- Not shown, I have been trying out the Orly Bonder Base, 

The CND Stickey base has been a go to for many years. Top coat- CND Super Shiney Top Coat.

Polishes- Starrily- Northen Lights- Polar Lights- Magnetic, Starrily- Northen Lights- Polar Lights- Magnetic, and Starrily- Northen Lights- Golden Starlight. 

Other- Makeup sponge for gradients and Liquid latex. 

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

Polish all the nails with a light blue/ shimmer (Starrily- Polar Lights)

Let that dry.

Once your base polish has dried, we can create the gradient. First we need to apply a liquid around the fingers to help with clean up and to make doing gradients much easier. 

For the gradient part take a makeup sponge and first polish your dark blue (Starritly- Oceanic Moonlight) and then slightly over lapping the polish the same color you used as your base color the light blue/ green (Starrily- Polar Lights.)

Then dab the sponge on to each nail, you will need to repeat this step at least two times to be opaque.  

Once you have finished your gradient peel off your liquid latex with some tweezers. 

For an added touch you can apply a gold reflective polish (Starrily- Golden Starlight.) This polish I did only apply one coat, which made it all little to subtle and I wish I would have a least applied two coat so it would be more visible. Above is a photo that I got the gold to show at  a certain angle. 

Once you are happy with your ocean gradient, apply a top coat to add a shine and to help your nails last.

Hope all of you enjoy this ocean blue gradient nails.

See you next time for more nail fun! 

On Island Time- Tropical Nail Design

Hello/ Aloha everyone! Now over a month (July) ago my husband and I went to Hawaii to celebrate our 10 year wedding anniversary, and the thing that like to always say in Hawaii is Hawaiian time and or island time, which means you will get there when you get there and just take your time and enjoy life. Going to Hawaii really does teach you to just relax and enjoy taking your time. So for today's design we will be creating a palm tree, by the ocean, with a plumeria flower. For this design I really took my time and I feel like it really turned out good. 

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

Base and topcoat- CND Stickey Base Coat and CND Super Shiney Top Coat.

Polishes- ILNP- Under the Sea Collection- Sandbar Magnetic Polish, Orly- Melting Point- Having a Smeltdown, and China glaze- Shades of Paradise- Mer-Made For Bluer Waters. 

Acrylic paint- green, yellow, blue, red, and white. Mix red, yellow and blue to make a brown paint, and yellow and green to make a light green. 

Nail art tools- thin linear and striper brush. 

Other- makeup sponge for gradients, liquid latex for your nails, and water to clean off your nail art brushes. 

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

Nail polish on all of the nails your base color will be a golden glitter polish (ILMP- Sandbar) 

Let that dry.

Ocean Gradient:

For all of the nails we will be creating an ocean/ beach nail gradient, First if you have liquid latex you can apply it before we start to make clean up easy.

For the gradient part take a makeup sponge and first polish your light golden sand color, the same polish as your base color (ILMP-Sandbar), then your lighter blue (Orly- Having a Smeltdown), lastly your slightly lighter blue, this polish is just a little darker then your last polish (China Glaze- Shades of Paradise), also make sure the polishes slightly over lapping. 

Then dab the sponge on to each nail, you will need to repeat the last step for each nail, also you will need to go over the nails at least three times to be opaque. 

Once you have finished your gradient peel off your liquid latex with some tweezers. 

Then apply a topcoat to smooth and blend your gradient together. 

The thumb nail will just have the ocean/ beach gradient. 

PalmTree and Plumeria Nail Design: 

For this design once again I will not go into greater detail about how to create a palm tree because I have done so in many of my other tropical nail designs post. 

Anyways for this design we will be creating the tropical design on our ring and middle finger nails. On the middle finger make a palm tree on the left side of the nail, staring with lighter colored green and then adding the darker green later for more depth. Also you can add a few small coconuts, by just making a few small dots in the tree. 

Near the tip of the nail we make a small plumeria flower, take your small linear brush with with paint on it and make a petal, two on the sides and two on the bottom and fill in the flower with white, when that is dry take some yellow paint make some lines in the flower, then repeat with some brown paint in the yellow lines. 

For your last detail on the middle finger nail we will make some grass, by make lines with our striper brush with light and dark green. 

Next we will make another palm tree on the ring finger nail, just on the right hand side, then make some grass at the bottom of the palm tree, once again using light and dark greens. 

Once took your time on your tropical design apply a topcoat to seal in your design and to help it last through your vacation. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this nail design! As stated above when you really take your time on things I think they turn out really well. 

 Here is the practice version that also turned out very well!

See you next for more nail fun! 

At The Beach- Ocean and Beach Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we will be creating a beautiful ocean/ beach design. It's that time of year again when we all enjoy going to the beach and going swimming. At the beginning of the year I created a blue gradient nail design that I thought would make a pretty beach nail design, so that's what I did I took that same gradient that I did and made it into a beach/ ocean design. 

Here is the nail polishes and nail art tools used to create this beautiful ocean/ beach nail design: 

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

Polishes- KB Shimmer- Plant One On Me Collection- Lilac It Or Not, Zoya- Twinkling Collection- Jen, Holo Taco- Toppers- Flakie, Holo Taco- Toppers- Scattered, and Holo Taco-Vacation collection-Beach Please. 

Acrylic paint- white.

Nail art brushes- thin striper brush and liner brush.

Other- makeup sponge for gradients, Holo Taco's liquid latex, and water to clean off your nail art brushes.

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

Polish- 

For your base color for the gradient apply a light color first, a light shimmery/ holographic blue,KB Shimmer- Lilac It Or Not. 

Let that dry. 

Ocean Gradient: 

Before we start the gradient part of this design, as long as you are not allergic to latex, you can apply a liquid latex barrier around all of your nails, and let that dry. This helps to make the clean up much more easier. 

Then for creating a gradient from lightest on the tip of the nails to darkest near the cuticle, first take make up sponge and polish your lightest blue polish (I used KB Shimmer- Lilac It Or Not) then polish your darkest blue color (I used Zoya Jen). Then with your lightest color on the tip of the nails, dab the sponge on the nails to make a gradient. 

You will need to do this step few time so your gradient will be opaque. I went over each nail twice. 

For an added holo touch, take a Flakie Holo topper and polish on the darkest part of your gradient and then a Scattered Holo topper right under that, but not all the way down the nail on the lightest part just a little on the lightest part. (you will be able to see this better on the other colors I did on my right hand.)

Sand on the Beach: 

To make this design look more like the ocean, we will need to add sand and waves in the water. First take a clean makeup sponge and a sand looking polish on a sponge (Holo Taco- Beach Please). Then dab that on just the tips of the nails, you will need to do they two time to be opaque, I also polishes on a layer a well to make sure it was opaque enough. 

Ocean Waves: 

For the ocean waves, take a thin striper brush with watered down white paint on it and make a few wavy line on the nails, do this one at a time While the line is still wet take a clean dry liner brush and brush the line upward to make a wavy. If the line you made dried you can all ways go over the line again to make the wave. 

Once your beach nails are all ready apply a top coat to add a shine and to help them to last though your ocean/ beach vacation. 

Here is the practice version.

Hope all of you enjoyed this ocean/ beach nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!