The Shining Nail Art - Tutorial by ~KayleighOC on deviantART

quitepolished:

I made a tutorial! I hope this is something that possibly helps people, because I know some people said they wanted to try out my stippling gradient nails.

Okay, so words to go with the pictures:

First you need to paint your nails with which ever color you like. In my original nails I chose a black base, but I like white much better. Then, using a tiny dotting tool (or a needle, possibly a toothpick, I used a #18/0 spotter brush) make a bunch of dots near the tip of your nail, so many that barely any of the base color shows through. You can use nail polish for this, but I chose to use acrylic paint. After that keep working in sections, using less and less dots and making the sections ever so slightly bigger until you reach your cuticle. If you have long nails you could probably stop before the cuticle, or you could just make the sections bigger. I like to do four sections, but you could do more or less depending on how gradual you want the gradient. 

If there’s any confusion please let me know and I’ll try to clarify!

nailside:

Tutorial: Freehand cloud look.
Click on the picture to view the full tutorial.

chalkboardnails:

Valentine’s Owl Nail Art Tutorial

Check out the original nail art or view the full tutorial post with extended text descriptions of the text.

Before steps 4 and 7, paint the beak and eyes in with white first. Then, color in the white shapes with yellow. Putting the white first will make sure the yellow shows up well.

Create the small hearts in step 8 by using the small end of a dotting tool to make two strokes inward towards each other. The strokes should connect at the bottom to form the “point” of the heart.

chalkboardnails:

Orly Nail Rescue to the Rescue

This amazing product saved my nail after I nicked it with my razor, and it also works for tears, splits, and cracks. Give the link a click to check out how it works. 

this product is actually very impressive.