Showing posts with label Summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Summer. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Floral Nails

Good hello beautiful people. This nail art is one of my favorite because lets be honest I'm OBSESSED with floral. Floral pants, shirts, shoes, nails I want it all. Plus flowers and summer are made for each other. I've been wanting to try this design for so long but I didn't think that I could do it. Let me just tell you that it was 100 times easier than I thought it was going to be. You can do what I did which was only have the middle and ring finger be the floral pattern or you can do all floral.


Step 1: Base coat obviously. The real first step is to paint your middle and ring finger a greenish teal color while you paint the others a pink color. Now you don't have to choose those colors, but in my opinion they look the best.


Step 2: Get a large bobby pin and start making little cloud like designs with the same pink color you put on the other nails on the fingers. Just space them out randomly so that there is enough, but not too much.



Step 3: For this step you need a lighter pink, but since I didn't have one that would go nicely I got a piece of paper and mixed the pink with a white nail polish. Now take a smaller booby pin or a nail striper and you are going to start creating the floral pattern. What I did was place a small dot with the lighter pink in the middle of the clouds and then make little lines along the edges. Mix it up give some flowers two light pink edges and others three. I forgot to take a picture with just the third step so I'll combine it with the fourth step. Next your going to take a green nail polish and make little leaves for the flowers. I gave some two and others just one. Once you like your design finish it off with a top coat.



I absolutely LOVE  this nail art you best believe that I'm going to be wearing it for the majority of the summer. Tag me on instagram (simplethings_blog) if you recreate the design.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Daisy Nails

It's time to say bye bye to winter and hello to spring. Unless you live in Chicago because well it snowed this morning. Coldness and snowflakes aside I'm ready for rain and flowers and who can forget the sunshine. Today I'm going to show you how to get your nails ready for springtime. Daisies! Who doesn't love daisies? They are fun, festive, and so cute.

What you'll need:
  • Clear base and top coat
  • Dark color nail polish (black, blue, purple)
  • White nail polish with a striper
  • Orange or yellow nail polish
  • Dotting tool or a bobby pin
First step is to apply you base coat and then the dark color nail polish. Make sure it completely dry before you move on to the next step. 


Next step is to take the striper with the white nail polish and to start drawing lines. Be sure to place them so they form the shape of a daisy. Now you can do like I did or you can do a daisy on each finger or multiple small ones. You can honestly do whatever you want.


The third step is to take your dotting tool and the orange nail polish and place small circles in the middle of the daisies. The final step as always is a top coat.



Three simple steps and your nails are ready for the warmer weather.