Saturday 5 October 2013

Dream Catcher with Feathers Nail Art [Step by Step | Tutorial]


Dear readers,

I had been wanting to try out a dream catcher design for the longest time ever, and finally today a sweet client/friend of mine [Hi Charlene!] let me try out this design on her nails. 

I decided to do a step-by-step tutorial as soon as she gave me the go-ahead, and I must say that they turned out way cute, if I say so myself!

You can do this design in a variety of colours, but it must be on the light/pastel side since you do need for the black to show up real well on the base colour.

We chose this green/pistacchio colour by Sinful Colours as a base, but it can be done using yellow, pink, blue or any other colour you fancy.

I also used Bundle Monster nail plates which I got off Amazon - get yours from this link *here* - I love them and they're so affordable too! Only $17.99 and you get 21 nail plates. I used black Konad polish with them though.

What you need are the following;


  • 1 light base colour
  • 3 contrasting colours for the beads on the dream catcher
  • 1 black nail striper [or black nail polish and a thin paintbrush or toothpick]
  • a dotting tool 
  • feather stamp or you can draw the feathers free hand
  • topcoat 

This is the finished result:



To start with, apply two coats of the base colour of your choice;


*Client has acrylic nails*




Decide on which nails you want the dream catcher design - we went with the ring and thumb nails. Then using the striper brush, draw a semi circle which should span half of your nail like so;




Then, using the striper, place a tiny dot of polish on the centre of the circle you just drew, and draw petal shapes from this centre to the diameter of the larger circle you did. 

Draw small lines in the middle of each 'petal' you just did too.

When you're done, draw 3 vertical lines [2 shorter ones on the side, and 1 longer line in the middle]





Using a dotting tool and contrasting colours, draw on the 'beads' of the dream catcher. I used white, pink, yellow and dark green.

I also used a nail plate by Bundle Monster to stamp on feather designs on the remaining nails. I did this haphazardly to give the feathers a 'flying' effect;





And that's it! Seal your design with topcoat and admire your handiwork :)

This is my final result:




And items I used;





Hope you enjoyed this design, and do let me know if you try it out for yourselves! You can also opt out from the feathers and just do the dream catcher. Anything you like, really.

Let me know if you love/like this design!

Much love,
Lorraine
xoxo

4 comments:

  1. I love the feather design! <3
    how could you made it so tidyyy? hahahah :D

    PS : I've followed ur blog, mind to follow mine back? :)
    chelchellatte.blogspot.com thanks~

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