Adding Palm Trees to a Beach Nail Art Scene

Video Transcript

"I'm Judy Franck for Expertvillage. We're going to be doing some nail art today. Now we're going to go head and do our palm trees. What I like to do is I like to make sure that I've got the smallest brush I've got. I'd like even smaller than that sometimes for what I'm doing. I go a head, get my paint brush wet, get my black, I do like the black to do a palm tree just because it really has a nice contrast with the other colors that I'm doing. So what you want to do is make sure your paint brush stays in a nice point. It's kind of hard to tell with black because your paint brush being black it is harder to tell how much paint you've got on there. You may have to go trial and error. This is the point where you need to also be sure that you don't have any water falling out of the shaft of your brush. Take you paint and roll it a little bit on the edge of your towel, whatever you're using to dab with, and give your water a chance to fall out. If there is water in there this is when it will fall out when you're doing something detailed. So go a head and start with a straight line to do your palm trees. Then what you want to do is start putting your branches on here, palms ferns, whatever they're called, just get that going. Just a nice little sweeping motion. I don't know if you can see what I'm doing here, probably blocking you from seeing this. You just want to keep your branches real thin if you can and try really carefully not to make it a big blob because if you do too much paint on there you're going not have very much detail. Our surfer guy is going to be on this thumb. I don't know if you can see but I'm rolling my brush around in the paint too to try and get a nice point on it because my surfer guy is going to have spikey hair."