Tropical Hibiscus- Tropical Flower Nail Design

Hello everyone! If you are anything like me you are tired of fall being pushed down your throat in July and just want to enjoy summer. Then this tropical hibiscus flower nail design will be great for you! I don't know why the fall craziness has to start way to early, every year it seems like they start the fall stuff earlier and earlier and then the people that like summer, I feel don't get to truly enjoy it, but maybe because fall and Halloween are the money making holidays/ season so that why the have been staring it way to early lately. I remember when I was little they would actually let season be season, which I miss.  

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

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

Polishes- Finger paints- Legendary Lore, Loreal- Tangerine Crush, and Cover Girl- Glosstinis Bahama Mama. (I used to old polish that I know are no longer available, but these are polishes that you can easily find in another brand.)

Acrylic paint- Red, white, green, and yellow. (mix your green and yellow to make a light green and then mix your red and white to make a pink) 

Nail art brushes- Thin detail and striper brushes. 

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes.

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

Polishes- * I decided to use some really old polishes that I have in my collection.* 

Thumb and middle finger nails- a pink with a gold shimmer (Finger paints- Legendary Lore)

Index and pinky finger nails- a orange and pinkish cream polish (Loreal- Tangerine Crush)

Ring finger nail- a light orange polish (Cover Girl- Glosstinis Bahama Mama)

Let that dry.

Large Hibiscus on the Thumb Nail- 

First we will start off with the large pink hibiscus on the thumb nail. Take a thin striper brush with white paint on it and we will be making make a long heart shape for the each of the petals (this is the best way to describe the shape) the first petal will be the one in the center of the nail near the tip of the nail. The next one is on the left side of the nail, then the bottom near the cuticle, then make a rounded one next to that petal, lastly another heart shape petal next the rounded one and next to the first petal you made. Once you have the outline fill that in with white paint this will help the pink paint to stand out more. 

Once that has dried take a red and white paint with more red and mix those two together to make a pink. Fill in the white of all of the petals with that pink paint. Also you may need to re outline all of your petals with white, if you want to. For the center of each petal we will add some red detail by taking a red stripper brush and make a lot of line that are very close together, this will fill up the bottom part of all of your petals.  

Lastly we will make the long yellow part of the hibiscus that is in the center (not really sure what that is called.) First take your striper brush with white paint on it and make a long curved line in the center and then at the end make a few very small dots. Once that has dried go over that with yellow paint. 

For the final touch we will need to add some green leaves. With your thin detail brush make a leaf near the bottom of your flower on both sides and one leaf near the top of your flower. 

Red Hibiscus Flower on the Middle Finger Nail- 

For the smaller red hibiscus we will pretty much flower the same steps as the larger pink one we just made on our thumb nail, just red and with a pink outline, and just a little bit of a different shape it kind of had heart shaped petals, but kind of doesn't. Also this flower will only have two leaves on each side of the flower. 

Palm Leaf on the Ring Finger Nail- 

Lastly we will make a palm leaf on the middle finger nail, take a thin stripper brush with a light green paint on it and make a kind if curved line starting near the cuticle and going down the nail, with that same brush make a leaf at the bottom of that green line, then staring near the cuticle make a small leaf on each side and make then just a little bit bigger as you go down the nail. Once you have finished this you can add a little bit of a darker green to your leaves as well, even though the one I did you can't see the difference very well. 

Once your nails are tropical summer ready because here we don't want an early fall, apply a top coat to add and shine and to help your nails to last. 

Practice Nail Design 

Hope all of you enjoyed the tropical hibiscus flower nail design and that you enjoy the rest of your summer! 

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Golden Hour- Tropical- Sunset Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we will be creating another tropical nail design, it is still summer time, even though for some reason this year stores have started fall stuff way too early in July. Anyways this summer even more so I have really been wanting to create beautiful tropical nail design, because of the trip to Hawaii that I went on. Hawaii is know for there beautiful sunset and sunrises, we did get to see one really nice sunset on the beach. To remember this sunset we will be creating a golden hour nail design.

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

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

Polishes- Finger paints- Legendary Lore, Orly- Melting Point- Erupt To No Good, Orly-Melting Point-Cesium The Day, Holo Taco- Chrome Collection- Trophy Life, Zoya- Ziv.

Nail art brushes- thin striper brush.

Other- make up sponge for gradients, liquid latex for around your fingers, water and acetone to clean off your nail art brush, and tweezers. 

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

Polish all of the nails a pink with a gold shift. (Finger paints- Legendary Lore)

Let that dry.

Sunset Gradient- 

For all of the nails we will be creating a sunset or sunrise 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 pink with a golden shift (Finger paints- Legendary Lore) the same polish as your base color, then a shimmer orange (Orly- Melting Point- Erupt To No Good), lastly a yellow polish.(Orly-Melting Point-Cesium The Day) 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. 

Palm Tree on the Middle and Ring Finger Nails-

On the middle finger nail make a palm tree on the left side of the nail. On the ring finger nail make a palm tree on the right side of the nail.

For the sand take a sponge and polish a little bit of the sponge with a glittery gold (Zoya- Ziv) and dab that on the tip of the nails for a golden sand look.

Palm Trees on the Thumb Nail- 

On the thumb nail make two palm trees on the right and one on the left side of the nail, make one palm tree taller than the other as well.

Once again with a sponge and gold glitter polish, dab a little of that polish near the cuticle for the sand.

Palm Leaves On the Index and Pinky Nails- 

On the index and pinky nails we will make one palm leaf. On the index nail make on palm leaf starting from the left hand corner near the cuticle. On the pinky nail make a palm leaf starting from the right hand corner of the cuticle. 

Once your nails are ready to see a sunset or sunrise on the beach apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last.

Here is the practice version, this one turned out to have more pink in the background which I kind of like better.

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical sunset nail design!

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! 

Keep Summer Alive- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! This summer has gone way too fast, it seems like it just was Memorial Day and now Labor Day has come and gone. Technically according to the calendar, it is summer until September 22. So to try can keep summer alive for a little longer we will be creating another tropical nail design. Back in April I purchased the Orly Melting Point collection and I wanted to create a tropical design using some of the polishes from that collection, and I finally got to create one. This collection did give me some troubles creating a gradient, I think due the polishes having a more of a sheer finish to them. 

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- Orly- Glass Act, Orly- Having a Smeltdown, Orly- The Floor is Lava, Orly- Erupt To No Good, Orly- Cesium The Day, Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Hard to get, and Zoya- Oceane.

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

Acrylic paint- Green, yellow, and brown.

Other- Makeup sponge and liquid latex. 

Apply a top coat to clean dry nails.

Let that dry.

Polishes-

Thumb- a blueish purple (Orly- Glass Act)

Index and pinky- a blueish green (Orly- Having a Smeltdown) 

Middle and ring finger- white (this is your base color for the gradient, the white helps the colors to show up better.)

Sunset gradient on the middle and ring finger nails: 

First we will start off with the sunset gradient. Just to start off, this gradient did take a little bit of trial and error, at first when I practice this design I started with a sponge and it seems to not work that well. So then I looked up a YouTube video to see if anyone had tried to make a gradient using the Orly Melting Point collection and someone had done one using a fan brush, I tried that and it seem to work, then when I did this final design on my nails, I tried the fan brush method and it seem like it was drying to fast. 

Anyways I will go over the weird way that I got this gradient to work. 

First if you have liquid latex you can apply that over your fingers that you are going to do the gradient over. 

First take your fan brush and polish three colors that you would like to use, I used a Pink The Floor Is Lava, Orange Erupt to No Good, and Yellow Cesium The Day, then polish your fan brush with each color overlapping the colors a little. 

Then take your fan brush and wipe the brush from side to side on the nail. I did this a few time and it seem like it was drying to fast and not distribute the polish on the nail enough. 

Then I tried the sponge method and that see to help the gradient to be opaque enough.

If you applied liquid latex, you can peel it off first. 

Once your gradient is done apply a top coat to help to blend the gradient together. 

Ocean Water: 

For the ocean water we will keep things very simple, just take a makeup sponge with a shimmer blue on it (Zoya Oceane) and dab that on the tip of the nails for your ocean water, it is ok if it looks a little messy.

Palm Trees: 

For the Palm trees first I mixed green and yellow to make a lighter green (that way I have 2 greens). Make one palm tree on each side of the nail on the right side on the ring finger nail and the left side for the middle finger nail. I went for a true to color palm tree verses a shadow. 

Once you are happy with how your nails look, apply a top coat again to all of your nails to help your nails last through the rest of the summer days and to help them shine in the sun.

Here is the practice version, I did like this design but I was not my favorite I just think the Orly Melting Point collection was hard to gradient, due to the polishes being on the sheer side. I did still feel like this was worth doing a post on anyways.

Hope you enjoyed this summer tropical nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Spring Time Swirls- Swirl Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we will be creating a simple swirl design. When I was looking for inspiration I thought it would be fun for spring a summer time to create a swirl bright color design. This design is supposedly is trending this year.

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

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

Polishes- Sally Hansen- Insta Dri- Peeps Blue, Finger Paints- Heavenly Hues, Zoya Sunshine- Delia, and Sally Hansen- Insta Dri Jelly Belly- Bubble Gum.

Nail art brushes- Thin detail brush.

Other- Acetone and water to clean off your nail art brush.

Apply a base coat to clean nails.

Polish- This is your base colors.

Thumb, index, middle, pinky finger nails- Light blue (Sally Hansen- Insta Dri- Peeps Blue.)

Ring finger- Periwinkle blue (Finger Paints- Heavenly Hues)

Let that dry.

For this design I just switched the colors on each nail, from purple, pink, and periwinkle, with the light blue base. Then with the periwinkle base you would use purple and pink again and just add the light blue for the swirls. 

For this design it is very abstract with random lines. For this design I jump around from each nail for each color. First take a thin detail brush with a periwinkle polish on it and staring on the middle of the nail make a swirl line (this is for the nails with a light blue base). 

For the ring finger nail with a periwinkle base use the light blue polish to make your first swirl. 

Then for the other swirls switch between pink and purple, just make sure the other swirls are  right next to each other, leaving space in between each swirl so that you can still see the base color.   

Once you are happy with how your swirl nail design look, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last. 

If you want to go even more simple you can just put the swirl design on the ring finger and the thumb nails, and leave the other nails with no design.

Also as with any design you can use any colors that you want, you can use more spring colors, very bright colors for summer or later in the year you can use fall or winter colors. 

Here is the practice version.

Hope all of you enjoy this swirl nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!