Today I have a butterfly manicure for you… with a tutorial 🙂 This is very easy to create and you can do it with so many different color combinations and finishes. Lets begin!
products used:
- medium striper
- medium dottingtool
- (make-up) sponge
- China Glaze Tart-y for the party
- ANNY Pool girl
- OPI Kiss Me On My Tulips
- China Glaze Liquid Leather
- Zoya Purity
- P2 Just fantastic #040
How to:
1. Start with a soft lilac base and let it dry completely.
2. 3. Create a gradient effect with a lilac (that’s used for the base), pink and blue polish. I like to use a soft make up sponge. Make sure you don’t use to much polish. Gently sponge the polish on to the nails by slightly sponge up towards the cuticle and down towards the tip. This ensures that the colors blend nicely in to each other. And again, less is more. So don’t exaggerate the sponging because that makes that you’ll ‘pick up’ the polish and that will ruin the gradient effect.
4. Use a medium striper and black polish to draw a half circle.
5. Draw the second line.
6. Draw four lines and make sure that they touch the above and below lines.
7. Use a medium striper to gently create round egdes.
8. Fill in the small places around the round edges and the rest of the tip of the nails.
9. Use a medium sized dotting to create a row of white dots on the black tip. Depending on the width and length of your nails you can use a smaller or bigger dotting tool.
10. Repeat step 9 to create the second row of white dots.
11. Repeat step 9 to create the last row of dots.
12. When the design is completely dry, add a holographic top coat for extra sparkleness and you’re done 🙂 My white dots dried extremely slow and I was apparently to impatience, as you can see from the smudgy dots on my middle finger and pinky. Please take the time to let the design dry completely!
I think this design would look stunning if you use bright holographic polishes for the base. Why didn’t I think of that before?
What do you think of this mani?
I’d love to see your version of a butterfly manicure!
I tried this and it turned out pretty well! I have much shorter nails, though, and the blue didn’t really show up in on mine after I did the black. Next time, I’ll make sure to adjust it so all the colors show 🙂 Here’s a link to a photo of my finished manicure: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=675441549135892&l=4cf372abc6
I did butterfly wings for a nail art challenge when I just started doing nail art http://wp.me/p1q0VV-6F but yours looks so much better!! I’m definitely going to try it again now that I have a more practiced hand and your fabulous tutorial 😉
Love the nails!! Where could I purchase a dotting tool and striper?
Lovely design and thank you for the tutorial! I want to try this 😀
Thanks! And you should try it! I’d love to see yours 🙂
Love Your tuts hun 😉 Mine isn’t that clean cause I have readers that don’t read / speak english ,so I Always try to write in both languages 🙂
Good Job hun 🙂
Thanks so much sweetheart 🙂
I’ve noticed that you post with ‘double’ languages. That seems like a lot of work! Thumbs up for that! 😀
It’s because I have a reader that doesn’t speak english, and I she has been with me since I started 7 months ago. I need her as much as I need the other few followers I have 🙂 Thats why I continued both 🙂
I’m so obsessed with this! Looks awesome, I am def going to try this! 🙂
Thanks so much! I’d love to see yours!
Oh my, die zijn werkelijk prachtig! Dit moet ik ook eens uitproberen, natuurlijk met alle credits naar jou 😉
Ben heel benieuwd! 😀 Thanks!
What a helpfull tutorial! And your butterfly nails are adorable.
Thanks so much! You should give it a go too 😀
Oh wauw this is super pretty 🙂
Thanks Maris! 😀
Absolutely stunning! I’m definitely going to try this out! 🙂
You should 😉 I’d love to see yours!
so gorgeous!! Butterfly nails were some of the first complicated nail art I ever tried – and I failed miserably!!! Maybe I’ll try again 😉
Oh really? That’s too bad. You really should give it another try 😀 I would love to see yours!
These are so beautiful! I love butterfly wing nails!
Thanks so much!
Wow, this one is awesome!
Thanks! 🙂
beautiful! will definitely try this when i warms up more
Yes you should! Bet bright colors would suit you perfect 😉
🙂
Gorgeous!
Thanks lovely!
It’s awesome !
Thank you!