Special Day Bridal Designs Step-By-Step Nail Art for All Skill Levels Oleh_Slobodeniuk, GettyImages
The choices a bride makes for her wedding day are never arbitrary. Behind every wedding dress, cake and centerpiece is a story of a girl. Perhaps she envisions herself as a princess floating down the aisle. Or she sees herself saying I do barefoot in a garden. Perhaps she s planning a dramatic statement. A bride s wedding style reflects her own personal style just amplified. Therefore, she requires fabulous nails to convey who she is. Many brides opt for a basic neutral nail or traditional pink-and-whites. While these looks certainly suit some, there are many other options for nuptial nails. It s your job to help your client choose a matrimonial manicure that matches her specific bridal style. CoffeeAndMilk, GettyImages
Blushing Bridesmaid Nail Design: Tina Anderson Ave. Time: 10 min per nail Silver-Leafed French Nail Design: Shafita Banks Ave. Time: 5-10 min per nail Step 1 Polish the nail light pink. Create a beige French tip. Allow the polish to dry. Using white paint, create flowers and leaves down one side of the nail and three-quarters of the way across the French smile line. Add white dots for detail. Step 2 Outline the flowers and leaves with gold paint. Use a light stroke to impart a wispy, faded look. Add gold dots on top of the white dots for detail. Allow the design to dry. Step 3 Apply top coat to the nail and let it dry. Randomly glue a few pearls on the design. Step 1 Polish the nail with a white, stair-step French, running from the right edge of the tip to the left center edge of the nail, and let it dry. Step 2 Take a flat brush and dip one side into white paint and one side into silver paint this is called double loading. Using the double-loaded brush, create the leaves by touching the half-white and half-silver side to the nail. Allow the nail to dry. Step 3 Add dots and wisps and let dry. Step 4 Complete the design by applying top coat and adding three rhinestones where the leaves meet.
DEARLY BELOVED Nail Design: Pam Minch Average Time: 3 minutes Suggested Price: $2 Silver-Leafed French Nail Design: Michelle Hoffman Step 1 Polish the nail beige. Step 2 Apply a glitter top coat. Step 3 Using white polish, paint several small hearts on the sidewall and dots at the tip and cuticle. Finish with top coat. Step 1 Polish the nail silver. Step 2 Add several thick white vines. Step 3 Paint thinner wisps and details, then add white dots. Finish with top coat.
St. Tropez Nail Design: Pam Minch Lavender Bouquet Nail Design: Tami Bice Step 1 Polish the nail shimmering beige. Add a white St. Tropez tip. Step 2 Paint two white flowers along one side of the nail. Step 3 Add a vine with leaves on the opposite side of the flowers. Glue on a rhinestone, and then coat the entire design with top coat. Step 1 Polish the nail with shimmering silver. Step 2 Paint a diagonal French tip with purple; add highlights with white paint. Step 3 Paint three or four gray wispy lines that extend up from the corner of the free edge. Step 4 Add purple buds and highlight them with white paint.
WEDDED BEAUTY Nail Design: Stacey Oliver Suggested Price: $3 per nail Lovey Dovey Nail Design: Shannon Mechling Ave. Time: 10-15 min per nail Suggested Price: $5-7 per nail Step 1 Polish the nail a soft eggshell hue. Allow it to dry. Using white paint, create four wispy leaves at the left corner of the nail s free edge. Step 2 Using white and gray paint, create random curved lines around the design. Step 3 Paint either gray or white dots along one side of some of the curved lines. Step 1 Apply light blue iridescent polish and let it dry. Create the overlapping dove shapes in white paint. Add a white ribbon trailing down the nail. Step 2 After the nail is dry, use a small art brush to add tiny details to the doves in light blue paint. Let the nail dry and apply top coat. Step 4 Add iridescent pink glitter polish randomly over the leaves. Allow the design to dry and apply top coat.
French Vine Nail Design: Trinia Van Arsdale Ave. Time: 3 min per nail Suggested Price: $3 per nail Toast the Bride Nail Design: Tina Anderson Ave. Time: 10-15 min per nail Suggested Price: $5-7 per nail Step 1 Polish the nail light pink and let it dry. Using white paint, create the side swirl. Step 2 Add the leaves and allow the design to dry. Apply top coat. Step 1 Polish the nail a light, shimmery pink. With beigy pink, polish a French tip. Using black paint, create the outlines of glasses filled with champagne and bows tied around the glasses stems. Step 2 Add the champagne with yellow and orange-pink paint. Draw hearts floating above the glasses with pink paint. Step 3 Using white paint, create highlights on the glasses. Paint the bows white. Step 4 Outline the hearts with black and add detail to the bows. Using a gold glitter polish, add detail to the glasses stems and rims. Complete the design with randomly placed confetti and glitter. Allow the design to dry and apply top coat.
rose french Nail Design: Sheryl Macauley Ave. Time: 10 mins per nail throwing rice Nail Design: Audrey Watabe Step 1 Polish the nail using iridescent white glitter polish. Paint the tip white. Using light pink, create the shape of three roses. Allow the design to dry. Step 2 Add rose petal details using dark magenta. Using green, paint leaves around the roses. Allow the design to dry. Step 3 Using gold, accent the green leaves. Paint small, white dots in cone shapes to signify baby s breath. Allow the design to dry. Step 1 Polish the entire nail frosty white. Step 2 Apply top coat on the entire nail. While the layer remains tacky, place grains of rice at the free edge. Step 3 Add silver bullion between the rice grains. Polish the rice with the same frosty white. Encase with top coat. Step 4 Apply a thin layer of top coat on some of the baby s breath and adhere silver bullion. Allow the design to dry and apply top coat over the entire nail (including the bullion).
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