Apply a basecoat color or a clear basecoat. Allow the polish to dry. Place a French manicure sticker across your nail, leaving the tip exposed. If you don’t have a French manicure sticker, use a similarly-shaped sticker, such as the circular stickers that reinforce punched holes in paper. Paint the tip color above the sticker. It’s okay if you overlap the paint with the sticker a bit. Remove the sticker while the paint is still wet, so you don’t pull off chips of paint with it when you take it off. Allow the design to dry completely and finish it off with clear top coat.
Apply a base coat color or a clear base coat. Allow the polish to dry. Place a dab of nail glue or nail gel on your nail. Put it high on the nail, toward the tip, or in a lower corner. Think about where it will look best. Pick up the jewel or sticker with a pair of tweezers and drop it onto the gel or glue. Use the tweezers to gently press it into place. Allow the glue to dry. Paint a clear top coat over the nail to keep the sticker or jewel from falling off.
Mix loose glitter with nail gel or clear polish and apply it to your nails. When the application has dried, add a top coat. Cover one or more of your nails with nail gel or polish. Dust the nails with glitter and allow them to dry before finishing off with a top coat.
Apply the basecoat color. Allow it to dry completely. Dip a small brush, toothpick or pin into the polish you chose for the dots and lightly tap the implement on your nail. Continue doing this until your nail has as many dots as you want. For other effects, you can create dots of varying sizes by using thinner or thicker-tipped implements. To make fading or trailing dots, dip the implement in the paint once and apply several dots without reapplying paint. You can also use your fine-tipped implement to drag the paint out from the wet dot to create rays, swirls and other designs. When the dots are dry, finish with a clear top coat.
Apply the basecoat. Allow it to dry completely. Use a thin-tipped brush or toothpick to place groups of five dots arranged in circles on your nails. These are the petals. When the petal dots dry, use the same color to paint a simple circle in the center of the petal dots. [2] X Expert Source Marta NagorskaNail Artist Expert Interview. 29 July 2019. You can add extra detail by placing a tiny white stripe in the center of the petals, or creating leaves with green nail polish. Take care not to crowd too many flowers on each nail. Make sure the flowers are distinct from one another. When the flower designs are dry, finish with a clear topcoat.
Use the lighter color to make splotches on your nails. The shapes don’t have to be uniform, just as leopard’s spots aren’t uniform. When the splotches dry, draw “C” or “U” shapes around the outsides of the blobs using the darker color. When the leopard spots are dry, finish with a clear top coat - or, for added flair, paint over the design with a clear glittery nail polish.
Apply the basecoat color and allow it to dry. Apply a clear topcoat to seal in the base coat, and allow it to dry. Apply a dot of the first swirl color using a toothpick. Use a clean toothpick to apply a dot of the second swirl color on top of the first dot while the first dot is still wet. Drag the colors outward together and create swirls using a clean toothpick, a striper brush or other implement. You can also create a marble effect by randomly placing several dots of the first swirl color on the nail, then placing several dots of the second swirl color around and on top of the first set of dots. Swirl the dots around and together by moving your implement in a criss-cross, S-shaped or figure-8 pattern.
Apply a coat of the darkest color to your nails and allow it to dry. Dip a makeup sponge into a dark colored polish (only a dab of polish is needed on the sponge) and apply the medium color to the tips of your nails, starting at the tip and moving down to create a fading effect. With a clean makeup sponge, dab the lightest color onto your nails in the same fashion, starting from the tip and fading downward toward the base of your nails. The resulting look should be bright-tipped nails that fade downward toward the darkest base coat color. Apply a clear top coat while the polishes are still wet to more completely smear the colors together.
Apply the white polish as the base coat. Before the base coat dries, use a toothpick or other implement to place dots in another color or two on top of the base coat. Dip a large brush in acetone and dab it onto the drops of polish. Use the acetone and the brush to thin and smear the dots over the white base coat. If you’re successful, you’ll have an impressionistic Monet-inspired design. When the watercolor design is dry, apply a clear top coat.
Use the blue color for the base coat. Allow it to dry and apply a clear topcoat. When these coats have dried, paint a single layer of white polish over the basecoat. Dip a makeup sponge in acetone and use it to lightly rub away and thin out the white polish. Stop when enough of the blue layer shows through to create an acid-washed look. When the acid wash design has dried, finish with a clear topcoat.
