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

"네!"

"진짜!소줘!!!"

"왜?"

"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?

왜 나는 요기있어?

걱정해!

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。물..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？

私...私..

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!

かれはが好きな。

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？時々が。。。

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.

Halloween

I know Halloween is not an Asian holiday, but it's well-known. I created 101 designs for Halloween and here are 10 out of 101. This one I just took a bunch of pictures of the nail art and the materials because these are designs I'm not letting out of my sight, plus they are simple and easy so you can figure them out on your own. Enjoy

お月見ネイル Moon Festival Nails

In the last week of September many countries celebrate the Full Moon Festival (the Chinese name is better). For my Mandarin class we celebrated this festival with mooncakes, Chinese and Japanese candy, as well as learning all sorts of legends about Moon Festival. This also includes how it is celebrated- in China all the family members return to their homes to be with their families, eat together, and appreciate the beautiful moon. Japanese gardens (kind of like a park, but Japanese, and I don't think you'd ever see a playset there) also have special offers for this holiday. Some Japanese grocers- and I don't doubt Chinese markets- carry flyers about places where they are celebrating. The Chinese markets also charge a lot for mooncakes as a business opportunity! Yum.

At any rate this is a week late, but I hope you still appreciate my design.^_^감사합니다!

お月見ネイル

Colors: Tokyo Pearl, hot pink, orange, flat black, red, dark grey-silver, gold, coral pink, flat white

하얀색, 핑크, 주한색, 검정색, 빨강색, 실버, 노랑색

 白色,パンク, 橙色, 黒色,  朱色, 銀色,  金色 

Design Layout

*For the thumb on the right hand just do as well as you can (I painted that left-handed, whoops, so much for people asking me if I'm ambidextrous- I'm not. I just work hard ^_^)

Base Colors

Left hand

Nail 1 Chinese Lanterns

1)Paint the white lanterns any color of your choice

2) Topcoat

Nail 2 Festival Kanji

1) Paint the kanji in red (look at the nail design

2) Top coat

Nail 3 Peony- China's national flower

1) Paint the peony outline in black

2) Fill in with the coral pink (I used a pink that turns purple in the sunlight)

3) Top Coat

Nail 4 Full Moon

1) Paint the moon and stars in flat white

2) Paint Tokyo Pearl color over the moon

Nail 5 Moon Kanji

1) Paint the kanji for moon in red

2) Top coat

Nail 6 Oriental peace symbol

1) Get as close as you can to  the original design- don't paint this left handed! use the black

2) Topcoat (the white chips easily)

Nail 7 Moon and flowers

1) Paint the tree in black

2) Paint the moon white

3) Paint the flowers in white and red 

The nail polish on the skin will go away in two days

Nail 8 Celebrate Kanji

1) Paint the kanji in red

2) Top coat

Nail 9 Otsuki

1) paint the Japanese Hiragana "O" next to the kanji for moon in white (look at design)

Nail 10 Miru- to see 

1) Paint the kanji for Miru- to see in white

2) Top coat

FINAL LOOK

Note to self- NEVER EVER paint Kanji LEFT HANDED. It defies the Chinese writing system and as the Japanese kanji were taken/adapted from  the Chinese characters do not ever break the Chinese writing rules if you can help it.