Romantic Wedding Nails

Hi everyone!

I recently attended the wedding of two dear friends.  Of course, I had to dress for the occasion, and that meant a suitable nail art design was also in order :)

My outfit for the wedding and a close-up shot of my hand holding my beaded clutch

This design looks very elegant, but is surprisingly easy to do.  You may also change the colors according to the look you want to achieve.  So let's get started!

Materials:

1. Base Coat
2. Top Coat
3. Nail polish in pearly pink, dark purple, gold, and green
4. Big dotting tool (or the back end of a thin paint brush)
5. Small dotting tool (or the rounded tip of a bobby pin)
6. Toothpicks

Procedure:

After applying base coat and 2 thin coats of pearly pink polish, use the big dotting tool to make 5 dots on each nail.  These will be the petals, so try to keep them close to each other without letting them stick together.

While polish is still wet, use a toothpick to smudge the petals outwards.  Start from the center of the dots going towards the direction you want.

Now smudge the petals going in using the same method.  Be sure to clean the toothpick when polish accumulates on its tip.

Next, take the small dotting tool and make gold dots in the center of each petal.  You may opt to skip this step and the next if you prefer to have flowers of only 1 color :)

Using the same smudging method, from steps 2 and 3, smudge the gold dots.  Keep a lighter hand in this step.

Now that the flowers are done, create leaves by using the big dotting tool to blot green polish randomly beside the flowers.

See how I randomly positioned both flowers and leaves.  This gives the design more character :)

Now smudge the leaves the same way as the petals, apply top coat, and the design is done!

 Helpful Tips:

• Wait for your design to be completely dry before applying top coat. Applying top coat on semi-dry polish will smudge your hard work :(
• To prepare for dotting, use the nail polish brush from the bottle to drip a blob of polish onto a clean piece of paper.  Dip the dotting tool in this blob.
• Nail polish is like paint; they can be mixed together on a piece of paper to get the right shade for your design. For this design, I mixed a little gold in my green polish to make it lighter and a little shimmery.
• If you want to keep your design from chipping longer, reapply top coat after a couple of days. This will also freshen your design and make it look new again! 

Thank you for reading! Feel free to leave some comments :)