A Book On Random Stuff

NAIL ART ;)

To do flowers

1. Paint on a base coat colour. Any colour you wish!

2. Carefully dip your brush into acrylic paint, any colour, but if your

base colour is light, try a dark colour, ie blue, and if its dark, try a

light paint colour, ie white! Take your brush and gently paint a little

line, imitating a petal. If you want it to be easier, load your brush a

little heavy, then place your tip down, flat on the nail, so the imprint of

the brush shape is left. Do this 5 times, for 5 petals.

3. Paint a dot in the centre on the petals, acting as the middle of the

flower.

4. Paint more over the nails in the same fashion, or just leave it as one.

Remember to seal with topcoat!!

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1. Paint the bottom half of the nail a darkish blue colour to represent the

sea, then paint the rest a lighter blue, for the sky. Take a light blue

paint (remember, you can mix your paints! Dab some blue onto a palette and

mix in white paint!!), and using paint little stripes across, to show the

reflection on the water.

2. Paint an island! It might help to paint it in white acrylic paint first,

then paint on yellow once its dry. This acts as a base coat, so none of the

blue varnish underneath will show through.

3. Paint the palm tree trunk! Take a brown colour paint, and paint a

stripe, but, try to curve it, and make it a bit thick, as in the picture.

4. The leaves. Using curved stripes again, in green paint. You can add an

more realistic touch, by adding a lighter green colour on them, using the

same technique as I explained with the flower petals.

5. Paint a white circle and fill it in. Once its dried, colour it with

yellow. Once that has dried, paint one half orange. Once the design has

dried, topcoat it!

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Leopard Print

This is more easier, but is very eye-catching!

1. Paint on a gold-ish base colour.

2. Taking a slightly darker gold/brown/yellow colour, paint on large spots,

but make them jagged looking.

3. Taking a dark brown colour, paint on an outline for each dot. I usually

paint this outline in 3 pieces, so that there are chunks or darkness around

the spots. Add random dots of dark colour around the shapes. Finish with

topcoat.

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Water Marbling Technique

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You will need:

2-3 different colour polishes - glitters and frosted varnishes will not

work. Just use normal.

Cup/jar/glass of cold/room temp water

A few cocktail sticks

Tissue

Newspaper

Cotton Buds / cocktail or orange stick with cotton wool wrapped at one end

Nail Varnish Remover

Base & Topcoat

1. Lay newspaper down on a table or flat surface, and set the glass of

water on top.

2. Paint the nails to be marbled WHITE with white nail enamel, don't forget

to apply base coat first.

3. Taking your first desired colour, drip a drop of enamel onto the surface

of the water in the glass. Wait for it to spread out across the water, then

add the 2nd colour onto the middle of the first colour. Wait for the colour

to spread out, and drip the 3rd colour in.

4. Taking a cocktail stick, gently swirl the polishes to make patterns.

Swirl slowly and gently.

5. Dip your nail/fingertip into the area of polish you desire, take the

cocktail stick, swoosh the polish on the water to one side, and remove your

finger.

6. Clean off polish from the cocktail stick with the tissue, and remove ALL

traces of polish from the water.

7. Repeat steps 3-6 for each nail.

8. Take a cotton bud or cotton wool ended stick, dip in nail varnish

remover and remove all traces of polish from the skin.

9. Apply topcoat.