Nail Art

Introduction

Nail art, the practice of painting decorative designs on your fingernails, is a fun way to brighten up your everyday look or accessorize a special occasion outfit. There are a variety of designs available, ranging from subtle and understated to funky and outrageous. The key to any successful nail design is starting with clean and well-shaped nails. Nails should be neatly trimmed and filed before painting. Even the most accomplished artist can’t create an attractive design on nails that have been bitten down to stubs.

Nail Art comes in so many forms. Women can choose from nail extensions and artificial nails with trendy styles, adhesive nail decals with gems or glitters, digital manicures which print designs using special inks in elaborate designs, or painting on of intricate details depending on what you fancy, such as flowers, still life images or even words.

Whatever manner of application or technique, nail art is a fun, artistic and stylish way to express yourself. It is relatively inexpensive and now a growing pastime of fashionistas, from celebrities to moms to working women all over the world.

History of Nail Art

3000 years Before Christ the Chinese used enamel on their fingers. They applied the substance and left it to sit for several hours, the result; a pink finish on their nails. This was the beginning of nail art and the earliest records. The Indians also practiced nail art in a similar period using a dye derived from the Henna plant. This sometimes implied a social significance. Egyptians were another civilization that used nail art early on. The color of ladies nails were used to identify what class in society you were in. The higher class wore deep shades of red and lower classes wore pale shades. Another mother of nail art was the Inca civilization who actually painted images of eagles on their fingertips.

The modernization of nail design began early in the 19th century. Orange wood sticks were developed in Europe beginning the process. Modern manicures began with this invention around 1830. The popularity created business opportunities and salons started to pop up across the US by late 19th century.

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How to make Strawberry Nail Art

Material:

• Base Coat
• Top Coat
• Strawberry Red Nail Color
• Green Nail Color
• Yellow Nail Color
• Toothpick
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Steps:                                                                        

• Put on a base coat to protect and strengthen your nails. This will also help your nail polish stay on longer. Wait for the basecoat to dry before moving on to the next step.
• Use a strawberry red color. Wait for your nails to dry before moving on.
• Paint the strawberry leaves green. Paint the outline of a row of about 4 or 5 triangles. Then, fill in the triangles with the green nail polish.
• Using yellow nail polish, dip a toothpick into the nail polish. Draw small seed dots on your nail, spacing them out fairly evenly (keep it as neat as possible).
• Wait until your nail polish dry and at last apply top coat on your nails to make the nail art more nice and shiny.

Steps to make Newspaper Nail Art

Material:

• Base Coat
• Top Coat
• Pieces of newspapers
• White or Grey Nail Color
• Water in bowl

Steps:                                                                         

• First apply base coat on your nails to protect and strengthen your nail now wait for the basecoat to dry before moving on to the next step.
• Now apply the white or grey nail polish on your nails and let it dry for moving towards the next step.
• Dip your fingers for about 30 sec in the water and then press a piece of newspaper on the nail till its print comes on the nail.
• Let it dry for a few minutes and apply top coat on the nails for shine.

How to create Water Marble Nail Art

Material:

• Bowl
• Water (at room temperature)
• Nail Polishes of different colors
• Toothpick
• Nail polish remover
• Base coat
• Top coat
• Tape (to protect the skin)

Steps:

• Apply base coat on your nails first. Once the base coat is dry, put scotch tape around the skin surrounding your nails to prevent a mess.
• Choose the nail polishes of different colors which you want.
• Take an old bowl and pour water in it. Make sure it's room temperature.
• Choose a nail polish. Don't try to remove the polish drop on the tip of the brush. Hold it over the bowl, and the drop will fall in, and quickly move across the water's surface.
• Do the same step with another nail polish of your desire, and drop the nail polish in the center of the other nail polish.
• Keep alternating until desired levels are achieved.
• Take a tooth pick and make as many lines in the design as you wanted.
• When you are done with that process, dip your nail into bowl, and take out.
• The design should be printed onto the nails.
• Don't worry it will be messy at first, but you can clean it up using cotton buds and nail polish remover.
• Apply top coat when the design get dry.

How to apply Snickers Nail Art

Material:

• Base Coat
• Top Coat
• Nail polishes of different color
• White nail paint
• Black nail paint
• Tape (to put it on the nails tip)

Steps:

• First apply base coat on your nail and wait until it get dry.
• Put scotch tape on your finger tips now apply nail paints of different colors on each nail.
• Remove the tape from the finger tips and apply white nail paint on it just like the French Manicure.
• Now apply the round lines on the white tips with black nail polish.
• Make the design of lasses on the colored part of the nails and wait until it gets dry.
• In last apply top coat on your nails to give final touch to your nails.

How to paint your nails with Polka Dots

It is the very easy nail paint because the girls can paint their nails without any special tool in just 10-15 minutes.

Material:

• Base Coat
• Top Coat
• 2 or 3 colors of nail polishes
• Toothpicks

Steps:

• Apply base coat to your nails.
• Pick one color of nail polish of your own choice and apply it to your nails very neatly.
• Wait for your nails to dry.
• Get a toothpick. Break the toothpick's end so it is not pointy. You can either grind it against a hard surface or cut it with scissors.
• Dip the end of the toothpick in the nail polish you want to use for dots.
• Now create the dots onto your nails of your own choice.
• Apply top coat over the design so the nail art will last longer. Enjoy your fabulous new polka dot nails.

How to apply Special Valentine Nail Art

Material:

• Base Coat
• Top Coat
• Transparent glitter nail polish
• Zero Size paint brush (to make red hearts)
• Red Nail paint

Steps:

• First apply base coat to your nails wait until it get dry.
• Now apply glitter nail polish on nails.
• When the nail paint gets dry, take the red nail polish and dip the tip of the brush in the red nail paint.
• After this make the hearts on the corner and center of the nails.
• At last apply top coat on your nails to make the nail art more nice and shiny.

Two workable solutions to get rid of yellow nails

There are two tricks that can be used to remove the yellow stains from nails.

Lemon juice:

You can soak your nails for 15 minutes in fresh or reconstituted lemon juice. Some people just rub the lemon juice into their nails and hands and let it dry.

Whitening Toothpaste:

You can scrub your nails for two minutes with whitening toothpaste and a nail brush.