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Posted on 06-10-2015
Spring Floral
by NinaB
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Start by applying your base color. I mixed this one up by using "Next Stop Coney Island", "Delicious" and "Swedish White" from LE.
Prepare your acrylic paint, a small detail brush, a small sponge and tweezers.
Then start drawing out some marks for the compass and some guidelines for the countries.
Take the sponge and dip it into your acrylic paint using the tweezers. Here I mixed up some gold, bronze, white and yellow to create my base shading where the sea is. When you've finished all fingers, mix up a darker shade and add just a couple of darker details in the sea area, also using the sponge.
To create the countries, mix up a dark brown color (I added some bronze to give it a shiny effect and to add a little bit more life into it) and fill up the spaces you've marked out. Then use the sponge and add some dimension by mixing up darker shades and dab it on. To add even more dimension, make the edges of the countries a little bit darker and finish by outlining them with a teeny tiny back line.
Here's a picture of the thumb where you can see a little bit more of the details. I decided that I of course had to bring Sweden along, so I added a little bit more details where the mountains are, dividing us with Norway and then we have Denmark saying hi at the tip of the nail. ;)
Take your detail brush and summon the artist in you. Draw out the compass and be as detailed as you want. Just make sure that your lines are straight pointing from "south" to "north" and from "east" to "west".
Finish off by adding the long lines crossing both vertically and horizontally on all fingers and then add something to protect the design. I like to apply a thin layer of "bonder" and then an extra layer of gel just to be sure (if my design would come off at this point just because I didn't seal it properly, I would kill myself. Twice.
Buff the surface or add a matte top gloss to get that old school look and you're done! If you have extensions, try placing a light source behind the nails and watch the magic happen as your nails turn into the coolest old school lit up earth globe ever! Quite a party trick.... ;)
