Sunday, 18 September 2016

The 'Jade Garden' Nail Art

Hello folks!

I hope y'all are doing fine. :)

It's been quite a long time that I wrote a post. Nevertheless am back with a super easy and beautiful nail art for all of you to try on.

NA#19



I call this design the 'Jade Garden' giving to the colors that I have used for this one. It is a very simple one to do and also looks great with different color combos.

I wanted to particularly try this out with a beautiful shade of green since it's really rare that we get to see green being generously used as a nail paint color.

So let me tell you the shades that I have used here.




If you have followed my posts then you would be well aware by now that I am a big fan of Maybelline nail paints. They really have a beautiful range of shades and quality nail paints. So even this time, the nail paints are from Maybelline range.

For the base coat, I have used two shades.

1. #301 Tenacious teal (although it's called teal, it has a warm jade green hue)
2. #102 Porcelain Party (a beautiful opaque white)

For drawing the flowers and the creeper, I have used two nail art pens from a local store. One of them being a white shade and another one being a lush jade green color.

To start of with, apply two generous coats of  green on all the nails except for the nail on the ring finger. Now onto your ring finger nail, apply two coats of white polish. Let it dry completely.

To draw the flowers

This one is pretty simple to do, since I have not used much of technique here. These are simple 5 petal'ed' white flowers.
If you don't have a nail art pen, then you can just pick a tooth pick to dot these flowers

You can start off from the top corner of your nail and just go along a diagonal line across your nail towards the tip. This pretty much makes it look like a bunch of flowers on a creeper.

To draw the creeper

Now to draw the creeper on your ring finger nail, use the green nail art pen/green polish to draw a horizontal line towards the edge of the nail leaving some space to fill up the leaves on either sides.

Now the creeper need not have that perfectly shaped leaves. Just stroke the pen to get pointed lines on either sides of the horizontal line for the leaves.

Let it dry completely.

Finally secure the design with a coat of clear polish and you are good to go! :)

Hope you enjoyed reading the post and will try this design yourself.
Have a great week ahead!

P.S: You could reuse this design for St. Patrick's Day just by replacing the flowers and creepers with clover leaves :)