精致/"너보고싶어"메니큐어/すてきネイルアト

One of my friends just moved back to the US from China so I designed a special nail design commemorating it. With this design I tried to respect her Chinese heritage and design a look for her based on things she likes as well as where she returned from. My inspiration: Chinese brush painting, koi fish, and the Asian knack for liking cute things.

わたしの友だちは中国からきました。かのじよはアメリカきました。 とてもうれしすです！ 日本語がかくことは むずかしいです。じつは、ここにネイルアート チユト-リアル!

Nail Design on paper

Base Colors

Right Hand 右手 

Left hand 左手 

Colors you need: Pink (hot or pastel), White, Black, Parchment (vanilla frosting), Silver, Blue.白,黒色, パンク, 色, 銀色. 파랑색, 하얀색, 검정색, 실버, 핑크. For designs: Red, Yellow (Sally Hansen Lightening), Green, Orange
Additional accessories: 1 fake plastic gem, blue sparkles

Left Hand Thumb 左手 Koi Fish金魚

1) paint the outline of a koi fish in black then add in the details, scales, fins, the eye and bubbles

2) paint orange over the outline, the only part to worry about is the eye- make sure that doesn't get covered up

3) Paint blue around the fish and while the paint is still wet dump sparkles. Your fish should be dry by then so the sparkles will mostly be on the "water"

4) Done!

I'm never quite sure when this will turn out, but this one is pretty cute. Just not my best!

Left Hand Index Finger- Dripping Strawberry Ice Cream

1)http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YWOB6FdK01o I did this my own way but used a smaller dotter as well as adding some drips and using different colors. I also added extra sprinkles outside the ice cream. Watch the tutorial then look at mine and decide which one suits your style better, K?

Left Hand Middle Finger- Tuxedo

1) Paint the blue suit first- For variation use white instead of the parchment color I used

2) Paint an X (you should know this tutorial already from my first Super Junior tutorial)

3) Paint the lapel with black

Here's a link to the Cutepolish tutorial (again) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nn5epUw3100

Left Hand Ring Finger- Asian Ladyアジアン女

1) Paint a white face shape and neck- let that dry

2) Using a thin black (nail brush would come in handy here) paint on her eyes, eye brows and nose

3) Using the nail brush with a sparkly red paint on tiny lips

4)Use a white to outline her hair and parasol

5) Paint the parasol red

6) Paint white flower petals around her then paint lines on her parasol so you can tell what it is

7) Splash silver paint across the tip of the nail

目がくりくりしています.

Left Hand Pinky Finger- APINK stripes

1) Paint the stripes on with White

2) Paint pink over the white stripes

Right Hand Thumb- Clouds and Chinese characters漢字

1) Use a nail brush and black to paint on clouds- Chinese style. I looked at art from a Calligraphy book and the movie Mulan then did my own

2) Using a red and your nail brush paint on the Chinese characters you see on the nail, Friend, Forever, and Good Fortune in the clouds

Right Hand Index Finger

1) Same as left hand index finger

Right Hand Middle Finger

1)Paint two wide white stripes on the black. Paint the outline of a heart in white on the right stripe.

2) Paint silver over the stripes (optional)

3) Paint red over the heart (or another color, but red looks best)

Right Hand Ring Finger- 漢字, fan, and flowers

1) So this you will not see on the design I wrote originally. It's the Chinese character for fresh and I basically did it calligraphy style- look up youtube videos on how the Japanese write calligraphy the style is called Ts'ao tzû (yes the tone is wrong there, lack of Chinese keyboard) or "grass characters". It's really difficult to read so it's mostly for art. Look up the Chinese character for fresh and do it in the Korean/Japanese style- this is located at the top right corner of the nail.

2) Paint the fan in red and add flowers to the design, paint a design on the fan in white, outline the wood of the fan in black. (this is probably one of the coolest Asian designs I've ever done! ^_^ and to think it was supposed to look like bamboo brush painting! Ha!)

Right Hand Pinky Onedirection Stripes

1) Paint stripes that meet in the middle, like upside down triangles

2) Using clear polish attach a gem to the pinky at the tip and center of the nail

3) Using a really really small gem makes this look even better

Final Look!精致

Isn't it beautiful?