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Drenched in rain and looking up to the sun rays waiting for the rainbow to appear, is what you often do in the rainy season! The winning sight of rainbow leaves you stunned. Of course, the nature’s beauty cannot be described in words. Creating a rainbow gradient on your nails is fun too! You’ll never want to look away from your nails if you successfully blend the seven colors into a gradient on your nails. Check out the step by step tutorial below:

Full Rainbow Gradient Nail Art:

If you have long nails then you have the option to use all the rainbow colors. In case you have short nails, add length to them or you can cut down the number of colors.

STEPS:

1.       Start off with a clear protective base coat.
2.       Apply white nail polish on the nails once the base coat dries. A single coat is enough. It is meant to enhance the rainbow colors.
3.       Cut a piece of sponge (or you can use makeup sponge too) that is only a little larger than the size of your nails.
4.       Now paint thin stripes of each rainbow color on a sponge in order; pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red. Make sure you do it real quick without letting the nail colors to dry.
5.       Dab the sponge on the nails one by one, moving it up and down a little only to blend the colors with one another.
6.       Clean the mess around your nails.
7.       Finish off with a glossy top-coat. You can also use a glittery top-coat or even a matte top coat.

The gradient nail arts could be a mess, but the mess is worth it, especially this rainbow one!  You simply can’t resist trying this colorful rainbow gradient nail art. It’s way too easy and the juxtaposed colors give out beautiful invigorating vibes!

Are you tired of painting the same purple nail color on your nails over and over again? One surely does get tired of repeating the same thing over and over again. So how about you make yourself familiar with a lovely holographic nails trend? Yes, holographic nails and holographic chrome nails are the newest sensations in town and everyone is on top of the moon about it. It can add this special extra shine to your plain nail polish and simple nails. Saying that it’s sort of an advancement to the chrome nail art won’t be wrong because ultimately your nails appear glossier and shinier. Check out the simple guide below for purple holographic nails, it’s way too easy!

Full Purple Holographic Nail Art:

If you look at holographic nails from a distance, there’s no denial in the fact that you’ll be sort of hallucinating pearls on nails! But the real magic resides in the hologram powder used to create the magical effect.

STEPS:

1.       To start a holographic nail art you don’t need a clear base coat but instead, you require a gel nail polish.
2.       Apply gel polish on all your nails.
3.       It’s a purple holographic nail tutorial, so you got to use purple nail polish as your base nail color.
4.       Paint your each fingernail with dark purple nail polish. A single coat would do.
5.       Next, you’ll need hologram powder. Dab it down on the nails with a sponge.
6.       Now apply a coat of gel polish on your powdered nails again.
7.       Let it dry and then see the amazing results for yourself!

It is a very attractive contemporary look that adds so much beauty to a simple nail color. You can also try it on short square cut-shape nails,  it’d look more wonderful.

Celebrate spring with flowers! Where there are flowers, there are colors and where there are colors, there are nail polish bottles. Sounds fair enough? There is no justice to spring season without the juxtaposing of colors around you. This time make sure your nails get the flavor of the fresh spring season too! With all the colorful periwinkle blooming in your garden, paint some on your glossy nails too. While you do some gardening and visit a spring festival, don’t forget to get this floral periwinkle nail art done on your nails first!

Full Periwinkle Nail Art:

You’ll be needing thin nail art brushes for this one, especially the detail nail art brush. The white base has made the overall appearance of periwinkles bright and striking.

STEPS:

1.       Start with the application of clear protective base coat.
2.       Select the nail colors you’d like to use. Here, a creamy white nail color is used as base nail color and red, black and green nail colors to paint periwinkles.
3.       Apply creamy white nail polish on your nails. For a more fancy finish, apply two coats.
4.       With the help of striper brush, draw two or three small ambiguous (cloud-shaped) dots on each fingernail. Paint in tiny dots with white nail color. (refer to the picture)
5.       Using a detail brush with a freehand paint the petals. Put on small single strokes to make a complete blooming flower. (mimic from the picture given)
6.       Use a detail brush again to paint the stems with parrot green nail polish.
7.       Finish off with a top coat.

Now you’ll see a bunch of blooming periwinkles on the nails of your very own pretty hands. The red periwinkles look beautiful! Purple and pink periwinkles would look great too. Try this sometime on your toenails too! Time for some floral touch!

Think there’s too much pink used when it comes to the nail arts related to flamingos? Well, this pastel flamingo nail art is a very different one. To rejuvenate with the flamboyant feathery flamingos, the trendiest pastel colors are used to come up with an innovative nail art design. It doesn’t have too many flamingos and certainly doesn’t house a pink nail color. Check it out!

Full Pastel Flamingo Nail Art:

The purpose of using a black nail color over pastels is to emphasize the beauty of a standing flamingo on the nails.

STEPS:

1.       Apply a clear protective base coat on your nails.
2.       Select three pastel nail colors, one dark nail color  you’d like to use for this nail art. Here, pastel blue and brown, nude and white nail colors are used.
3.       Paint the small, middle and ring fingernail with pastel blue nail color.
4.       Paint the thumbnail and index fingernail with pastel brown nail color.
5.       On the small fingernail, paint a semi-circle at the cuticle with brown nail color. Using a detail brush draw lines of the semicircle on it with black nail color. Similarly, draw vertical lines at the blue painted area of the nail.
6.       Paint the center of index fingernail and thumbnail  with pastel blue nail color. Draw vertical and horizontal black lines on them too, respectively, using detail brush.
7.       Paint the center of middle finger nail vertically with nude nail color. Put on one or two white lines with a detail brush.
8.       Draw a flamingo using striper and detail brush with black nail color on the middle and ring fingernail. Make a “2” first and then modify it into a flamingo. Paint its legs at the very end.
9.       Refer to the picture given above for step 5,6,7 and 8.
10.   Finish off with a top coat.

This nail art is quite a time taking but the dedication, patience, and hard work to recreate it is worthful. It’d look better on lengthy nails. Show some love to the sleek flamingos!

Who’s in the tropical mood? Well, the question should be who isn’t. What are summers for after all? The perfect time to visit the beach and spend the time under the shade of cool palm tree. And that palm tree date wouldn’t be so comfy unless it has a lovely set of palm leaves. To keep up your tropical mood alive, did you think of trying out palm leaves nail art? Your palm leaves nails can add up more delight to your beach venture! Make your Palm Sunday a fun day. There is a step-by-step guide waiting for you below:

Full Palm Leaves Nail Art:

The touch of vibrant green on the leaves totally gives the true feeling of living a good time in tropics. The combination of colors is totally up to your choice. You can even use white or brown as the base nail color.

STEPS:

1. Start your summer season nail art by applying a clear base coat.
2. Choose a base nail color, here black nail color is used for base and two shades of green nail color for the palm leaves.
3. Paint your nails with black nail polish.
4. After it dries, draw palm leaves using a striper brush with white nail color. Make the line curve first and then paint the leaves.  (refer to the picture to mimic the design easily)
5. Once it dries, paint the white palm leaves over with light green nail color.
6. Now with a darker shade of green and striper brush, you have to put on some streaks on the palm leaves.
7. Finish off the palm leaves nails with the smooth application of a top-coat on each nail.

So what are you waiting for? Grab your bikini, surfboard, and an umbrella and go find some tranquility at the sea but only after you’re done doing palm leaves nail art!

Tired of the dark colors all around the winter one waits for the summers to come by so that the neons can be a part of the summer nail art regime! But honestly, for quite a few number of people neon colors aren’t the favorite ones. It is because for them they are too bright and vibrant. To solve this issue, a neon pastel peach nail art would be an ideal idea! Not so bright yet not too dull. Think of a sunny day and your peachy nails. Read on to find the step by step tutorial.

Full Neon Pastel Peach Nail Art:

The most beautiful part of this nail art is the haywire nail polish. It gives a funky and flirty look to the dull neon pastel peach nail color. It’s a complete package of gorgeous creamy white base mixed with scattered neon colors of yellow, orange, purple and blue.

STEPS:

1.       Start off your neon pastel nail art by applying a clear protective base coat on your nails.
2.       You have to use a neon pastel peach nail polish color. It is bright yet pastel. Other than that you’ll need a haywire (with a white base) nail polish too. 
3.       Waiting for each coat to dry, apply three coats of neon pastel peach nail polish on your fingernails, leaving the ring fingernail as it is.
4.       Apply haywire nail polish on the ring fingernail. See if the single coat looks fine, otherwise paint a second coat too.
5.       For a delicate finish, apply a high-shine top-coat on the nails at the end.

This is a very special kind of nail art, different from gradients, stripes, and floral designs. Neons can be too bright and pastels can be too dull. But the neon pastel peach looks fabulous with the creamy haywire nail polish.

Who else is up for fruit nails? From watermelons to oranges everything is now a part of nail art designs. So why not give it up for the juicy lemons too in this heat? It’s true that half of the dishes you make and eat at home are incomplete without the addition of lemon in them. And not just the food, what about the drinks? How can you forget about the mint lemonade and cocktails? Today’s the day you got to try out the hot lemon with polka dots nail art. You’ll surely want to make a lemonade for yourself then!

Full Lemon with Polka Dots Nail Art:

This is a perfect nail art to try when going out on the pool party to have some lemon drinks and kill the scorching heat. White nail color looks the best with the lemon yellow one.

STEPS:

1. Start your lemon nail art by applying base coat on all your fingernails.
2. Now select a light base nail color. A mint nail polish or white would look great with lemon nail color.
3. Here, white nail color is used. Paint your nails with white nail polish.
4. With the help of striper brush draw small circles using lemon nail color and lime nail color. (refer to the picture)
5. Wait for the circles to dry. After that, paint in tiny triangles using lemon and lime nail color in lemon and lime colored circles respectively. (refer to the picture)
6. Using a dotting tool make polka dots with lemon nail color in the space between lemon and lime.
7. To finish off the nail art, apply a matte top coat on the nails.

The size of the circles can vary from small to large and you can even skip the lime part and keep the lemons only. Ready to hit the sun lounger then?

Did you know that summer nails tend to depict your overall personality because the designs for summer nail art come in a wide assortment and experimenting new ideas is always welcome? Yet again here’s another fabulous nail art design; glitter waves! It brings the image of splashy waves and rocky beaches, doesn’t it? Also, it invigorates you to have some fun with the waves and play around by the ocean. You can carry this beautiful breathtaking nail art to the ocean on your nails by following the steps given below:

Full Glitter Wave Nail Art:

You are definitely going to feel yourself swirling over these breathtaking deep oceanic waves. The white base and sparkly glitter make it all a lot more mesmerizing!

STEPS:

1.       Before applying any nail color, apply a clear base coat on all your nails.
2.       While they dry, take out the colors you'd like to use to create a glittering wave nail art. In this design, glittery sea blue, glittery silver, and matte white nail colors are used.
3.       Paint your middle and ring fingernails with regular or matte white nail polish.
4.       Paint rest of your fingernails with glittery sea blue nail color.
5.       Alternatively, use glittery silver and glittery sea blue nail polish to create wavy line horizontally on the middle and ring fingernails using a thin striper brush. (refer to the picture)
6.       Apply a matte top coat on the nails to finish off glitter wave nail art.

This is the best summer design you would come across; easy and lovely! If the ocean is your second home then you’ll be overwhelmed with this nail art once you’re done. Go ahead and try it out but don’t forget to flaunt off these glittery wavy nails to your mates while playing volley at the beach!

With the tattoo industry getting overwhelmed with the anchor designs, the nail art designs are now filled with the glittery marine iconic anchors too. Just like the anchor adds up to the hope, safety and security on the voyage, add the element of hope to your life too! The following steps will help you design a symbolic glitter anchor nail art everyday anywhere:

Full Glitter Anchor Nails:

Whatever outfit you wear, this nail art will go with it. However, you can match the color scheme as per the colors of your wonderful dress.

STEPS:

1.       Apply a clear protective base coat on your fingernails before applying any other base nail color.
2.       Select three nail colors out of which one should be the glittery one. In this art, white and baby pink nail colors are used along with glittery gold nail polish.
3.       Apply two coats of baby pink nail polish on all your fingernails except the ring fingernail. On the ring fingernail paint white nail polish.
4.       Using a striper brush paint two thick horizontal stripes of white nail color on the middle fingernail.
5.       Now again using a striper brush paint two thin horizontal stripes of glitter gold nail polish in the middle of thick white stripes. (refer to the picture)
6.       With the help of detail, brush uses glitter gold nail polish to make a plus sign in the upper middle of ring fingernail. Extend its vertical line a little towards the nail tip. Make a crescent and modify the shape into an anchor by drawing arrow heads. (refer to the picture given)
7.       Apply high shine top coat on the nails.
8.       Attach rhinestones on the index fingernail and small fingernail. (refer to the picture)

The anchor designs have made the ladies hand appear younger and chic. Mix and match stripes, waves, tides, chevron stripes and polka dots with the anchors. You’d love the rebellious touch it adds to your nails!

Nothing is better than rejoicing the patriotic moments of an independence day! The sound of the national anthem, the printed outfits inspired from American flags is all that makes your 4th of July. But what about the nails? Aren’t the American beauties out there interested in finding out about a flattering nail art exclusive for boosting the American spirit? Here’s  a perfect fit for you all. Glitter, flag colors, stars, and stripes; nationalism and creativity all in one. Check out the guide below for this patriotic nail art:

Full Glitter American Flag Nail Art:

This is a sparkly patriotic design, meant to make your 4th of July of every year a special one. The combination of colors looks truly amazing because of the spark of glitter. Get ready to give your nails the feel of patriotism too!

STEPS:

1.       Before starting this glittery nail art, apply a protective base coat on your nails.
2.       Wait for it to completely dry. Since it's an American flag nail art, you don’t have much of a choice in colors. However, the shades can vary.
3.       Paint your small and ring fingernail with glittery silver nail polish.
4.       Paint your thumb nail, middle and index fingernail with glittery blue nail polish.
5.       Now using a striper brush draw a star on the thumb nail, middle and index finger nail with glittery silver nail polish such that its corners meet the sides of the nails. (refer to the picture)
6.       Paint two stripes on the small and ring fingernail with glittery red nail polish.
7.       Wait until the nail paints completely dry, before moving on to your next tasks.
8.       If you feel there’s a need of a top coat, then proceed to do so. (if you have used textured glitter nail polishes then don’t use a top-coat, or the texture will be ruined)

You’d surely love your nails speaking of a glittery American flag! The shiny stars and the glittery stripes are portraying a classic version of American patriotism. Do try out this easy glitter American flag nail art!