How to Paint Flowers on Your Nails

Enhance a pedicure with beautiful nail art flowers on your toes.

Beauty and nail salons offer a variety of nail art services, but the services can be prohibitively expensive to keep up with on a regular basis. Decorate your nails at home with big and small flowers from just a few different nail polish colors. Paint your nails with a soft pink colored nail polish and then add a few tiny flowers in a slightly darker shade, or create a bright contrast with a dark colored nail polish and a large metallic nail polish flower.

Things You'll Need

• Nail polish base coat
• Nail polish (3 different colors)
• Hair dryer (optional)
• Nail polish top coat
• Bobby pins

Instructions

Freehand, Large Nail Polish Flower

1. Paint a base coat of nail polish onto each of your nails and let the polish dry completely.

2. Apply a coat of clear or colored nail polish and let it dry completely.

3. Apply a medium-size dot of a different color nail polish to the center of the nail. Use a third color to apply tiny dots around the center dot to make the flower's petals.

4. Dry the flowers completely. Speed up the drying process by blowing air on the nails with a hair dryer set to a cool setting.

5. Apply a top coat to seal in the nail polish flower.

Tiny Bobby Pin Nail Polish Flowers

1. Apply a base coat to your nails and let it dry.

2. Apply a coat of colored polish to your nails and let it dry completely.

3. Dip the end of your bobby pin into a different colored nail polish. Make four small dots on your nail in a diamond shape, just above the cuticle. These are the tiny flower petals. Move over about 1/4 inch and make another four small dots in a diamond shape. Repeat all the way around the bottom and outer sides of your nail.

4. Dip another bobby pin into a third color of polish. Apply a single dot of color to the center of each diamond to make the center of the flower. Let the polish dry.

5. Apply a top coat to seal the tiny flowers.

References

• "Nail Art"; Sherri Haab; 2009