Fourth Of July Nail Art Ideas

I did these for the Flag challenge day of Californails July challenge on Instagram. I plan on doing more of the July challenge so if you want to see more up to date nail art from me follow me there @nailbybayles. Back to my flag inspired nail art. For this nail look I used all China Glaze polishes. I started with my regular base coat, China glaze Strong Adhesive Base Coat, and then painted two coats of White On White. Then added some Fast Forward Top coat to speed up drying time. Once that was dry I applied 4 pieces striping tape starting about a third of the way down. And painted the top with Man Hunt and the bottom stripes with Salsa and immediately removed the tape. I individually placed the Glitter (or Stars) on the blue. And finished with a thick coat of top coat.

Colors for Flag Nail Art

For these simple 4th of July dot nails I started with the same base coat. Once that dried I painted two coats of China Glaze White On White. Using a dotting tool I added rows of dots starting with Opi Red Lights Ahead...Where? then Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Blue Me Away and China Glaze Icicle (pictured). When placing the dots I made sure to place the dots on the next row in between the dots of the previous row. I waited for as long as I could and finished with a thick coat of top coat.

Other Colors for Dot Nails

I hope you liked my two fourth of July nail art ideas. If you recreate any of my nail art tag me so I can see them. And If you have any nail art requests leave a comment here or on my Instagram.

Have A Great Fourth of July!

Birthday Nails

These are the nails I painted for my birthday which was on the 15th.

Colors Used:
China Glaze Sweet Hook, Too Yacht To Handle, Icicle and White On White
Sally Hansen CSM in Tickle Me Pink, Get Juiced and Peach Of Cake
Orly Liquid Vinyl
Opi I Just Can't Cope-Acabana
Sinful Colors Anchors Away

Firefly Nail Art

I was in a summer mood right after finishing this semester and wanted to paint some flowers in a painted mason jar. When I sat down to paint my nails I got the idea to paint fireflies in a jar. I looked for a picture and found the perfect one you can find it by searching lightning bugs in a jar.

On my ring finger is a jar sitting in the grass with fireflies in it and some flying out onto my middle and index fingers.

Colors Used:
Sinful Colors Set The Mood and Anchors Away
Opi I Just Can't Cope-Acabana
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Sun Kissed
Orly Liquid Vinyl
China Glaze White On White

Bird Cage Nails

These nails once again were inspired by a shutterstock picture I found. The picture has a bunch of birds in different cute bird cages with dots in the background.

I took a picture of all the colors together because I thought they looked so pretty.

Colors Used:
China Glaze White On White, Re-Fresh Mint, Foie Gras
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Lacey Lilac
Sephora by OPI Seeing Pink Elephants
OPI I Just Can't Cope-Acabana

Neon Geometric Nail Art

I came up with the idea for these nails awhile ago. When I was bored and started drawing designs out in my swatch book. So when I had no idea what I wanted to paint I could look in there and choose one. This was the best one I came up with that day.

First painted my nails white, then added striping tape for the triangles. Next I painted the outside of the tape black and sponged silver over it. But once I took the tape off you could see some black and silver on the white. So it may be easier to just paint the white on after the black and silver. After I fixed the white I outlined it in black and put the neon dots on. And finished It off with top coat.

Colors Used:
Sally Hansen Hard to Get
Orly Liquid Vinyl
Nicole By OPI Give Me The 1st Dance
China Glaze Pool Party, Sun Worshiper, Flip Flop Fantasy, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, Kiwi Cool-Ada, Fast Forward Top Caot

Silly Faces Nail Art

Wow its been a month since I've posted on here. If you want to keep more up to date with my nail art you should follow my Instagram. I'm trying to paint my nails every week but i get distracted. Good news though this semesters almost over which means summer and more nail art. 

For these nails i got my inspiration from another shutterstock photo. They're really good for when you don't know what to paint. I found one with a ton of different faces on it and knew i wanted to uses some of them and I have never seen anyone else do something like it. The most difficult part was the eyes because I couldn't keep them round or the same thickness.

Colors Used:
Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Hard To Get
Orly Liquid Vinyl

Sorry about the bad pictures. I've started using an actual camera and not my iPad like the pictures used in most of my other post. So I'm still trying to figure out where the best place for lighting is and on this day it was too cold to go outside.

Do you like the font I used for the watermark? I have tried many and am to indecisive to pick one.

Girly Floral Nail Art

Since its the first day of spring I have some bright flower nails for you that are inspired by a shutterstock photo.

Colors used:

OPI- Jade is the New Black and Did It On Em

China Glaze- Foie Gras

Sinful Colors- Aubergine, Sizzling and Set The Mood

Milani- Quick Teal

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails- Hard To Get

Valentine's Day Heart Nails

It's almost Valentine's Day which means heart nails! These were just going to be Valentine's  Day plaid nails till I decided hearts are better.

Colors Used:

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails- Tough Love

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear- Coral Reef

Sally Hansen Insta Dri- Blue-Away

Nicole By OPI- Give Me The 1st Dance

Spring Flowers

Its a new year which means even though its January I'm looking forward to spring. And I want spring even more now because we just got a bunch of snow. Since my favorite spring color is mint and I have been wanting to use my favorite China Glaze color I used it as the base for two toned flowers. (yes they are flowers not fireworks) And I but three dots of glitter in the middle just because i like glitter. 

Colors Used:

China Glaze- Re-Fresh Mint, Recycle, Fast Forward Top Coat, Strong Adhesive Base Coat

Sinful Colors- Soul Mate, Set The Mood, Queen Of Beauty

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails- Hard To Get

Leopard Nails With Bows

Colors Used:

Opi- Don't Petzel My Buttons

Orly-Black Vinyl

Sinful Colors- Sizzling and Nirvana

Halloween Monster Nails

Calling all the monsters...

Happy Halloween!

Colors used:
OPI- Did It On Em, Jade is the New Black, Red Lights Ahead Where?
Nicole by OPI- Hit The Lights
Orly- Liquid vinyl
China glaze- Salsa, Man Hunt
Sally Hansen- Sun kissed (Xtreme Wear), Hard To Get (Hard As Nails)
Sinful Colors-Royal Flush, Amethyst, Sizzling, Pink Forever, Jolt

Bloody Halloween Nails

Oooo look a wall with blood on it scary

Colors used:
China Glaze- Recycle, Salsa
Orly- Liquid Vinyl
Sally Hansen- Hard To Get

Simple Halloween Nail Art

I painted an easy mani that you guys can try. I just painted my nails white and used a fanbrush to create the design using two different colors. You can watch this tutorial by Simple Nail Art Designs if your unsure on how to do this but it really easy.

Colors used:
Orly- Liquid Vinyl
Nichole By OPI- Hit The Lights
Sinful Colors- Amethyst
Sally Hansen Hard as Nails-Hard To Get
Sally Hansen Xtreme wear- Sun Kissed

Cute Halloween Nail Art

I decided to do the design from Halloween straws/sticks.

Colors used:
Sally Hansen Hard as Nails-Hard To Get
Sally Hansen Xtreme wear- Sun kissed
Orly- Liquid Vinyl

Fall Watercolor Nails

Even though I absolutely hate Fall, because it gets so cold and it means winter is coming which means snow and ice, I figured i should paint some nails with some fall colors. I definitely wanted a tribal print because I think that is very Fall time and i love tribal print nails. Then I picked out so many colors that I just figured I should do a watercolor because then I could use them all and it will look like the changing leaves.


Colors used:
OPI- Don't Pretzel My Buttons (base color), Red Lights Ahead Where
Nichole by OPI- Hit The Lights
China Glaze- Foie Gras, Strong Adhesion Base Coat, Fast Forward Top Coat
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear- Sunkissed
Orly- Liquid Vinyl


Love tribal print nails, see my re-creation nail art, simple tribal nail art, and my gradient tribal nails.

Galaxy Nail Art With Studs

I recently bought nail art decorations from the Born Pretty Store and thought it would be cool to use them with a galaxy design. I remembered seeing a galaxy done by the Nailasaurus that I really liked because it had white space on the sides which made it different from most galaxy nails you would see if you Google galaxy nails.

Colors Used:

Sinful Colors- Royal Flush, Jolt, Shock and Awe, Queen of Beauty

Sally Hansen- Hard to Get

Glequin Gradients

Look everyone I bought some glequins and studs from the bornpretty store. So after I got all that stuff I obviously had to do some cute nails right away.

I decided to do a glequin gradient because I love gradients duh. And once I started placing them I realized that it was going to take for ever if I did all my nails. Instead of all nails with gradients i used my new studs for accent nails.

Colors used
Orly- Liquid Vinyl
Glequins- Bornpretty Store (#1)
Studs- Bornpretty Store

Post of new nail decorations i got from from Bornpretty Store.

August Challenge: Bold Nail Art

  I didn't really know what bold nails were, probably since to most people all of my nail art could be considered kind bold because its not just plain and one color nail polish. So I looked up bold nails and somehow got the idea for doing some pop artish type nails

Colors used:
Sinful Colors- Sizzling
Orly- Liquid Vinyl
OPI- Red Lights Ahead... Where?
Nicole By OPI- Hit The Lights
Sally Hansen- Hard To Get, Coral Reef, Blue Me Away! And Sunkissed

August Challenge: Ombre Nail Art

 For this days challenge I didn't just want to do like an ombré gradient. Then I thought it would be cool to splatter in different shades of the same color ,but before starting i was looking at nail art on Google and saw paint drip nails and in my head saw a gradient with the darker shade dripping down to the white.

Colors used:
Sally Hansen Hard as Nails- Hard to get
Sally Hansen Insta-dry- Blue-Away
Sinful Colors- Jolt and Break Away