Nail Tutorial - Shades of Blue Strips

Shades of Blue Strips

This nail art does not need any nail art tool. Only requires the existing nail polish brush and a good steady hand.

This technique used is called Layering. You could layer the colours and there is no right or wrong on which colour to use. Sometimes relayering heps to thin a certain colour strip.

Things you neeed:

Base

1. Base Coat
2. Top Coat
3. Couleur Inc - Liatris 143 (Lightest blue shade 01)

Strips

1. China Glaze - Hanging in the Balance (Medium blue shade 03)
2. OPI - No room for the blues (Light blue shade 02)
3. OPI - Incognito in Sausalito (Dark blue shade 04)
4. OPI - Haven't the Foggiest (Silver)

Here's how:

 Preparation - Start with cleaning your nail bed with basic manicure
                              (Click here for my version)

 Step 1 - Apply your favourite base coat

 Step 2 - Apply 2 coats of Blue shade 01 on all nails

                  - Allow to semi dry for at least 10 mins

Below i'm going to show two ways to paint on strips;

Example 1

 Step 3 - Paint on a strip of Silver

 Step 4 - Paint on Blue shade 04, just beside Step 3

 Step 5 - Paint on Silver , covering half of Step 4

 Step 6 - Paint on Blue shade 04, over Silver in Step 5, allowing a thin strip of
                    Silver to be seen

                  - Paint on Blue shade 03 , beside Silver

 Step 7 - Paint on Blue shade 02 ,directly above Blue shade 04 and Silver

 Step 8 - Paint on Blue shade 04, at the left side of nail

Example 2

 Step I - Paint the middle of nailo bed using Blue shade 04

 Step II - Paint Blue shade 03 on both side of Blue shade 04

 Step III - Paint Blue shade 02 on both side of Blue shade 03

 Step IV - Paint Silver on both side of Blue shade 02

From the examples i gave above, I hope you could see how i layered my colours. I did different layering and played with colours with each individual nail.

Hope you love this nail tutorial.  Similarly you could change the colours and mabe create rainbow using Layering Technique.

Let Shades of Blue be your best friend

Faith.Love Feline