Showing posts with label Asian manicure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asian manicure. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Writing Asian (anything) on your nails

Normally when someone paints calligraphy it's with the Five Treasures but for something like fingernails simplicity is essential.
Considering particularly the size of the nail, using these tools makes it one of the easiest looks to duplicate. For a more formal look paint all your nails ultra white, or a light golden color and make it look like painted kanji. Like on my post a while ago, the manicure for my Chinese friend months ago when she came back. http://asianailart.blogspot.com/2013_06_01_archive.html the Chinese character for "fresh". That is a beautiful example, only most calligraphy only uses black- pshwaa! I call this Hanwriting, after one of China's dynasties. Plus it's just the English word "Handwriting" without the D.

Materials:




Oh yeah, that's one of my new nail colors that I really like because it's light and changes the tone of your nail's natural color. It is very neutral and easy to pass off. If you have very pink/dark pink nails then using a nude shade will improve this design. I only painted one with this color

Example









My nails


Things to write

Look at what I wrote, blow it up huge and draw it on your nails. Anything you get from here is strictly ornamental which means there are grammar mistakes, strange wordings, and random words inside. However it looks really cool! Plus it's something I wrote myself so no copyright infringement
"!"
"진짜!소줘!!!"
"?"
"지루핬어! 아파가 재미없어!"
かれはここにですか?
かれは私におこっています。
それはまたどうして?
모라고?
나는 요기있어?
걱정!
다시한번 말해줘...
당시눈 미쳤어!
아랐어. 안줘도바붜바줘!サマーやろう!
すばらしい!とてもつかれたですか?ああ すごい! ちょっと 太っているね。 まあしかたがない、
水飲みたい..먹마라죽겠다!짜증나!놀라다 
과자를먹고싶어
미안합니다. 미안해! すの男の子だれですか?
ウイジヨン、友だちです。
ああ。 かれはちいがあります。 はい。

兄は私におこっています!
それはまたどうして?
ぬすんだ どうやってこのびるに入れましたか?
.....
ここで何をしていますか?
何をしていません。
だれにたのまれましたか?
だれにも。
じよ間があまりありません
つかれました。もうだめです。
가지만!! 너보고싶어!
かれはがきな
かれは?本当?
かれはすてき。
いいえ。信じられない!
目がありません?
もちろん!
見てよ!高いと強いとすてき。ああ、うらやまし。
何?時が。。。
しつれいします!日本語で話ませんか?
しんじつ。
あなたは彼が好きですか?
私は(友だち!)と言いました
やっばり。たいへんです。あなたが彼がとても近いです。
どうして?!

Random Chinese


美的中文书了。美手机要!不对!我达(对?)排球要,你呢?今天不去。我生病了。对不起。再见!我的家来了。朋友不去吗?对。他睡觉要了。背包和手机,我门公园去吧!这书太好!他做什么?他的手机上看电视!他的手机以吗?对。你做什么?我?我音乐闻。不闻吗?不闻。你吹吹了!请听东,我没有你。嘿!你太好!
这使我的家?对这是我的家。她谁吗?她是我姐姐。这是你的猫?不对这是外婆的猫。这白也黑熊猫?我的熊猫!它很可爱!外婆的猫比鱼胖!你的熊猫叫什么?熊猫叫Po.
The last sentence means Panda called Po ^_^  I couldn't find the character so I wrote it in English. If you can actually read this stuff it will either 1) not make sense or 2) make you laugh really hard because it's so random. But if you can't read it it'll just look Asian. (I managed both options 1 and 2 when I checked it before posting)
Watch for my next project- Harajuku nails! HARAJUKU NAIL STYLE COMING SOON.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

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 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 

Left hand 左 
Colors you need: Pink (hot or pastel), White, Black, Parchment (vanilla frosting), Silver, Blue.白,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 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

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?