Nail Tutorial - Butterfly

Butterfly Nail Art

Let's have fun with Fluttering Butterflies...

This is a tedious nail art.

I'm going to break it down into 3 parts.

Part 1 

Two tone Gradient Nail ...

Things you need:

1. Clear Base Coat & Top Coat 
2. 2 tones of any colour nail polish (today I'm using yellow and orange)
3. White Nail Polish
4. Foundation sponge (I use flat foundation sponge instead of the triangle ones, I find that it's easy with this. You can try both and see which works for you, works fine with both)
5. Thick brush 
6. Nail polish remover that contains alchohol 
7. Medium Thickness and super thin brush
8. Dotting tool
9. Black and White Acrylic paint
10. Plastic base (I use a plastic food cover)

Here's how:

  Preparation - always start with clean manicured nails. Go to Basic Home Manicure.

  Step 1 - Apply Base Coat to all nails 

                   - Apply one coat of white nail polish

  Step 2 - Loosen both the nail polishes for fast application.

                   - Bend the foundation sponge into half to create a curve and apply each 

                     colour onto the sponge be creating thick strips. You might need to go 

                     through each strip twice depending on how thick the nail polish is.

  Step 3 & 4 - Align the foundation sponge to your nails and roll the sponge over your 

                            white painted nail

                   - Repeat application to sponge and onto nails 

                   - Repeats the process over 2 or 3 times to achieve brighter colours.

                     *note: it's easier to gain brighter colours when the first layer/previous layer 

                      has been left 1 min to dry 

 Step 5 - Dip your Thick brush into nail polish remover and gently remove the  

                        unwanted nail polish at sides of nails

 Step 6 - Apply top coat and leave nail to dry.

Part 2

Drawing the Butterfly Wing

Here's how: 

 Preparation -  Squeeze out Black acrylic paint onto a plastic base, have a cup of 

                                  water ready and a thin brush

 Step 7 - Dip brush into water (do not remove excess water from brush) and dilute 

                    acrylic paint by smearing and mixing

 Step 8 - Draw an oblong shape on right side of nail

 Step 9 - Draw a smaller oblong shape on the left of nail, this oblong should have a 

                    flat base

 Step 10 - Paint black on all the negative space

 Step 11 - Allow it to dry.

*note: you could experiment with different shapes for your wings and the number of shapes per nail.

Part 3

Finishing the butterfly wings

Here's how: 

 Preparation - Squeeze out White acrylic paint onto plastic base, dip a clean brush 

                              into water and dilute acrylic paint

 Step 12 - Using the big dots side of a dotting tool, dip into acrylic paint and add 

                      dots randomly on the top of the nail (only on the black painted area)

 Step 13 - use the smaller dots side of the dotting tool, dip into acrylic paint and

                      add smaller dots onto sides of the oblong shapes and in between the  

                      bigger dots

 Finish - Leave the paint to dry for about 5mins and apply top coat.

Voila!

Hope you will have fun 

Let Butterfly Nails be your bestfriend

Faith.Love Feline