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. . . . .YAYYYYY it's Friday. . . . . .*whoop whoop* the weekend is almost here. I don't know about you, but I am looking forward to the 2 days to just chill and relax. Anyway Fridays mean one thing and one thing on on my blog at the moment . .Friday Feature, and today I have the lovely Jess from Just Jess guest blogging today. So here goes . . and I hope you enjoy the post.
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Hello, Serenity of Beauty readers! I'm Jess and I blog over at Just Jess,
but today the lovely Cas is letting me take over her blog as part of
her Friday Feature series. I decided to share a nail art tutorial, so
here is my guide to a rose nail art look - you could do this just on one
nail like I have, as a cute accent, or on all your nails for full-on
floral prettiness!
You'll
need a base and top coat, plus a base colour, a green colour for
leaves, and two similar colours for the roses - one needs to be darker
than the other to add detail. I've gone with pink but you could use any
colour you like; red, yellow, blue...
As
always, start by applying a base coat to protect your nails and give
your polish something to adhere to - I use OPI Nail Envy, but any decent
base coat is fine!. Then, apply your chosen base colour; I used two
coats of ELF's 'Mint Cream', but you can use any colour as long as you
have a contrasting colour for your roses. Wait for the base colour to
dry before moving onto the next step.
Next,
use the lighter of your two "rose colours" and place a few random
circles of polish onto your nail; how many depends on how long/wide your
nails are and how big you want your roses. I used ELF's 'Berry Pink',
and the circles don't need to be neat or regular. Again, you should wait
for these to dry before moving onto the next step.
Using
a fine nail art brush or a small nail art tool (a hair grip or
toothpick would also work!) and the darker of your "rose colours", add
some curved lines to the circles, to look like petals. I used
'Pomegranate' from Barry M's Gelly Hi-Shine range. Wipe your brush clean
on a tissue. Finally, use your leaves colour and your brush to
carefully paint on a couple of small triangle "leaves" for each rose. My
"leaf colour" was 'Greenberry', also from the Gelly Hi-Shine range.
Finish
the whole thing off with a coat of top coat for a smooth shiny finish
and to seal your design in - I used Seche Vite as I'm impatient, but
again any good top coat is fine.
I hope you've enjoyed my tutorial, I'd love to see how you get on if you decide to give it a go!
Jess xo
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This looks great and really easy. It looks great on a blue background as well :)
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Really like the nails
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