Floral Nail Art Tutorial
Join our Co-Founder Charlotte as she shares her go-to techniques, favourite brushes, and expert tips for creating floral nail art that truly blooms. Whether you're brand new to florals or looking to take your designs to the next level, Charlotte walks you through it all! from using blooming gel and adding chrome details to creating marble-effect leaves and statement hibiscus flowers.
This tutorial is packed with inspo, pro tips, and the tools you need to create dreamy, detailed florals with confidence.
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Product List
- Complete Base
- Orchid Gel Polish
- Mirror Silver Detail Paint
- Dotting Tool
- Supershine Topcoat
- After Dark Detail Paint
- Long Liner Brush
- White Detail Paint
- Magenta Detail Paint
- Clean Up Brush
- Ring Palette
- Cordless Cube
Transcript
[00:00:00] Let's go over some really simple floral designs. Starting off with the forever popular blooming gel flower. We are going to use our complete base coat and making sure that we cover the nail really nice and evenly. Leave that gel uncured and then take the gel color of your choice and we're gonna gently dot.
That into the base coat. Make sure to leave a small space in between to allow the movement of that gel to be able to bloom nicely. And once your gel polish is in place, you're just gonna wait for that gel to bloom out. I would always recommend using a gel polish rather than a detailed paint for this, as our detailed paints are far more pigmented and we'll take it a lot longer to bloom and using the complete base rather than the rubber base, as that's also thinner in viscosity.
Which means the bloom will happen far more easily. Once it is bloom to where I like, I can then cure it for 60 seconds. Then just to add a little bit of detail in, I'm gonna take my mirror silver detail paint and just create the tiny little pollen bits in the middle of the flower, [00:01:00] cur 'em for 30 seconds before top coating blue moon flowers are perfect because they are soft and subtle.
Next up, we'll do the hibiscus flower. Now, this is a really clever one to be able to master because it looks so intricate, but it's actually super easy to do. So for each petal, you're gonna draw three little dots in a triangle quite closely Together. These will be the tips of the pedals. Then taking your long liner or liner brush without putting any product on.
We are just gonna pull that gel. In towards the center. This does not have to be neat. You just want to keep the focus on the outer two dots of the pedal, bringing those really light strokes in towards the center, but leaving a gap. You can see that the top two pedals that I did here, I actually positioned the dots closer to gather, so they looked a bit better.
Joined once. Happy queue for 60 seconds, and then finish off with your CenterPoint dots. I did three pets here, but five looks really cute, especially when done with additional colors. [00:02:00] Then just as I was about to cure this, I thought, you know what? Once I've got that my dotting tool out, I'm just gonna show you another really quick and simple one to do.
So using five dots of my white detail paint, I'm just popping those in a little circle. And again, using that same method of a dry longliner brush, I'm just gonna pull that paint in towards the center point, giving them more of that teardrop petal shape. Then once I'm happy, I will cure for 60 seconds.
This white flower would obviously look really cute. It's a little daisy, so I would've liked to have put a yellow in the middle, however, because I already had my after doubt detail paint out. That's what went in. Finally, we have our marble look, so I've taken white detail paint and also magenta detail paint here onto my ring palette.
Now, you don't want to mix these two together, however, you just want to really lightly blend the two colors so that they create that really nice swirly marble pattern. I'm then gonna take my cleanup brush and gently pick up some of that [00:03:00] gel polish from my ring palette, and then lightly press that onto the nail plate.
You want to keep your pressure light so it doesn't merge the colors too much. We're gonna do this same motion the whole way around the nail, keeping that point in towards the center, as you'll see that this shape of brush is perfect for a paddle. What I love about Marble Look is every time you place that dot down on the nail, you are gonna get a slightly different design depending on what part of the gel you've picked up from your ring palette.
I always think appearing a bold color along with a white is a really good mix. Once I'm happy with my placement of my flower, I'm then gonna cure for 60 seconds. Then we all know by now. I love my mirror silver detailed paint to add those tiny little dots of pollen in that cent point once. Happy queue for 30 seconds before going in with your top coat, with floor designs always being so popular.
I hope these have given you some tips and tricks and a little bit of inspo thanks so much for watching.