Mixing Paint for Nail Art

Video Transcript

"I'm Judy Frank for Expert Village. And we're going to be doing some nail art today. Okay, what we've done so far is we've added pink, red and yellow and the yellow I basically dry brushed on so when you pick up your paint, you don't need to add any water to that. You just need to pick it up, knock some of it off on your paper towel and find areas that still look to you like they really need a little bit more pizzazz. So, I'm going back over each nail making sure that they've got enough yellow in there and it looks pretty good. They do have enough yellow, so we're going to go ahead and pick up our mountain color which will be purple. The purple is pretty dark so I'm not going to leave it this dark. We're going to add a little white to it. Mountains when they're farther away look lighter, so you want to keep that in mind. These are far away so mix your purple and your white. Get a nice pale shade of purple. Use it on the wet side because you want it to cover real well and go smooth and if it's not the right color, just go ahead and keep blending. You can always go over it. The key is to keep the paint layers thin so it dries fast so you can go from one to the next and not have a problem waiting for paint to dry. Now this one is pretty good. That's a good shade purple. So go ahead and lay your mountains in there. They're just going to be all different areas on the nail. So we'll just go from left to right. Some will be in the middle but you don't want to cover up all the sunset you just put in there so keep that in mind. And what we're going to do is just give it a little bit of shading in a minute just to make it pop a little bit because I think my purple is looking too much like my background. So we're going to add just a tad bit more purple to this in just a second. So we'll start with just laying the first coat down and like I said, there's no mistakes. It's all up to you what colors you like to use but I found that this always looks really pretty and I have a multiple color range when I've got my finished product because that is what makes it interesting and people like to try to figure out where you started when you do this because of all the colors you used. It kind of confuses people because they just see the whole thing done not just the process."