Hand painted nail art can add a touch of glamor to a simple manicure or pedicure. It is easy to do and requires very basic materials to achieve gorgeous-looking nails. Read on for information on some hand painted nail art designs.

Hand Painted Nail Art
Nail art is the perfect solution to boring nails that are painted with different shades of nail enamel. Adding some designs to your nails can be a fun way to enhance the beauty of your fingernails and will also enable you to sport gorgeous-looking nails. Hand painted nail art is relatively easier to do on artificial or stick-on nails, but with a little practice, doing them on your nails will get easy. You can experiment with a lot of designs and come up with a few of your own. As far as nail art is concerned, sky is the limit for creativity. Hand painted nail art can be done on fingernails as well as the toe nails. The designs can be made to compliment a certain occasion or even for daily wear purposes. Here are some hand painted nail art designs to get you started.


Flower Nail Design

Supplies Needed
  • Base coat
  • Nail polish (any dark shade)
  • Nail art paint or acrylic (white, green and yellow)
  • Striper brush
  • Liner brush
  • Fine nib nail art pen
  • Top coat
Directions

Paint your nails with a base coat, allow it to dry and then put on the dark shade of nail polish. Allow it dry and then apply the second coat and allow it to dry. Using a liner brush and white nail art paint or white acrylic paint, to draw four petals using a sweeping motion at the center of the nail. Draw another flower at the base of the nail, or maybe half a petal, depending upon the length of your nail. Between these petals, draw random long flicks using the striper brush. Add a few dots along the length of the flicks. Fill the center of the flower with a bright yellow dot using yellow acrylic or nail art paint. Paint some leaves using green paint, around the petals. Once the paint dries well, apply a top coat and allow it to dry.

Snow White Nail Design

Supplies Needed
  • Base coat
  • Nail polish (sheer white and electric blue)
  • Nail art paint or acrylic (white and electric blue)
  • Silver rhinestones
  • Striper brush
  • Liner brush
  • Fine nib nail art pen
  • Nail art glue
  • Top coat
Directions

Paint your nails with a base coat and allow it to dry. Apply two coats of the sheer white nail polish to your entire nail and let it dry well. Then apply the electric blue nail polish, diagonally, to half the nail and allow it to dry well. Now, take the white acrylic paint or nail art paint and draw three, half portions of an arrow head on the blue portion. Then complete the arrow heads by drawing the other halves with blue paint on the white portion. Allow it to dry well. Using nail art glue, stick a silver rhinestone at the center of the second arrow head on each nail, then apply the top coat and let it dry.

Swirl Nail Design

Supplies Needed
    Base coat
  • Nail polish (white, pink and pastel blue)
  • Nail polish with silver glitter
  • Dotting tool
  • Liner brush
  • Top coat
Directions

Apply a coat of the base coat and allow it to dry. Apply the nail polish with silver glitter on the nail tips and allow it to dry well. Then, using a dotting tool, apply a dot of pink on the base of the nail, a dot of pastel blue in the center and a dot of white on the tips, one below the other. Using a liner brush, spread the dots in a circular motion, starting with the pastel blue, then pink and then white. The swirls should merge well and should be spread over the entire nail. Allow this to dry and then apply the top coat.

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