Summary: How to select the paints for making hand painted nail art; get professional tips and advice on painting your own fingernail art in this free instructional video.
Judy Franck has been doing nails and nail art for 25 years. Her work has been published in Nail Magazine. She now owns and operates The Loft Hair Studio.read more
"I am Judy Franck, for Expert Village, and we are going to be doing some nail art today. Ok, now we have selected our brushes, and we are going to select the paint, I like the little craft paint, the acrylic paint, you can get them at any craft store, it doesn't matter the brand some much, it's the color that I'm going for . I like the solid or opaque colors for most of my nail art, but if I'm doing something with a little bit of depth, I like the to have these little shiny ones these are metallic paints and they are great for accent painting, and so we will be using a little of both today . And I also like glitter polish to add to the nail art at the end. Usually, it doesn't have to be polish, it could be the loose glitter powder, but today we are going to use this .So these are what we are using today as far as the way of paints and polishes. And what we are going to do is just going to clean off the space, make sure you have lots of elbow room. I like to have lots of room when I'm painting. And I like to find a paint tray, that paint can stay wet on ,this one this is like a stays wet type of paint tray, and this one is good cause we can close it up when we are not using it, and the paint stays wet .What I've done is put a little pad underneath, the pallet and got it wet and then I have a stays wet paper and it sits on top and it keeps my paints moist for about a week , so I don't have to keep using paint and I can use the same pallet for the week and it stays great."
eHow Article: Selecting Paint for Nail Art