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!

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

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

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

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

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

August Challenge: Cutesy Nails

Fox Nails! I've tried to paint a fox on my nails a few times and I always mess up and just give up. This time  I did a simpler fox so u wouldn't mess up again. If you are wondering where the sparkle themed nails are I was busy that day with relay for life so I decided not to do that day at all.

Colors used

China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint and Foie Gras

Sally Hanson Hard as Nails Hard To Get and Xtreme Wear Sun Kissed and Blue Me Away!

Nichole by O.P.I. Naturally and Hit The Lights

Sinful Colors At Sea, Royal Flush and Pragmatic

If you are wondering where the sparkle themed nails are I was busy that day with Relay For Life and could not paint my nails on that day.

Once Upon A Time Nails

I'm really loving the show Once Upon A Time and thought the logo would be a really cool nail art design.

Stripes and Dots Nail Art

I recently bought the polishes I used to do the stripes and felt I had to paint something with them really soon and this is what  came up with. I feel like they are good summer nails.

Nail polish used:

China Glaze Pool Party

Sinful Colors Sizzling

Sinful Colors Jolt

Sinful Colors Shock And Awe

Sally Hanson Hard As Nails Hard To Get

Do you like these nails?

Blue And Green Pattern Nail Art

I'm not quite sure what this design is considers so I just called it cool. My middle finger is definitely my favorite because I just think overall it turned out the best, second being my ring finger.

I used Sinful Shine with Gel Tech in My Kryptonite and Set The Mood. I also bought some others from this collection that I'm sure I will use soon so u guys can see them.

Simple Tribal Nail Art

Last Week Of School Nails

My last week of High School nails..

Flamingo Nail Art

I was inspired by other flamingo nails I've seen.