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 "Art Gallery" showcases the nail art of some of the best artists in the industry. Every month, the column features four to six nail art designs created by one or more of our readers with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions. The nail art usually follows a theme for an upcoming holiday or season and depicts that theme in creative, easy-to-replicate designs. The column also provides promotional tips to help readers make the most of their nail art businesses.

 

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Sun and Sand

 

Warmer weather calls for tropical nail designs.

 

By Pam Minch

 

 

Dust off those sandals and grab your sunglasses—summer is on the way! To usher in the warm weather, why not offer your clients a host of tropical nail art designs? Whether your clients live in the tropics, plan on taking a tropical getaway or simply dream of a tropical paradise, this Art Gallery provides some great ways to help celebrate the sunshine.

One sure sign of warmer weather is the blooming of beautiful flowers, so this month we feature two floral designs. Audrey Watabe shares a hibiscus design that can be crafted with a vast array of colors to suit any client’s taste. April Davidson from Milford, Ohio, gives us a classy floral creation on a black backdrop—perfect for an evening out or a moonlit luau. When I think of a tropical vacation, I imagine palm trees blowing in the breeze, and both Davidson and Karina Bresnahan from Greenfield, Massachusetts, offer a sampling of designs that will make your clients want to pull up a beach chair and relax.

 

Brush Up
You can convert any fingernail art design to a toenail design. Copy a pattern from your client’s swimsuit, or top off her pedicure with tiny flowers, ladybugs or bees. Cut thumbnail tips in half to show off your samples. Place the tips in a clever display—perhaps on a flip-flop or beside a shovel in a bucket of sand.
   
Flutterbys
1 Polish the nail light blue.
2 Using yellow, orange and red paint, create a sun.
3 Add white clouds.
4 Create a palm tree and birds with black paint.

Nail Design: Pam Minch

 

Average Time: 5 minutes per nail
Suggested Price: $5 per nail
 
Weightless Wings
1 Polish the nail bright pink.
2 Using yellow paint, add a sun to the upper right-hand corner of the nail.
3 Using white and several shades of blue paint, add ocean waves.
4 Add green palm tree fronds and brown tree trunks.

Nail Design: Pam Minch

 

Average Time: 3 minutes per nail
Suggested Price: $5 per nail
     
Tropics
1 Polish the nail black.
2 Paint tropical flowers on the nail in yellow, orange, pink and light pink.
3 Add several small flowers. Create centers and petals with dots of paint.
4 Using two shades of green paint, add leaves in random patterns.

Nail Design: Pam Minch

 

Average Time: 5 minutes per nail
Suggested Price: $5 per nail
 
 
Hibiscus
1 Polish the nail yellow. Add orange accent lines over the entire nail.
2 Paint a flower shape with dark blue paint. Add yellow shading to the center of each petal.
3 Add two green leaves with white veins.
4 Paint orange stamens and add tiny blue dots at the ends.

Nail Design: Pam Minch

 

Average Time: 5 minutes per nail
Suggested Price: $5 per nail
 

Pam Minch specializes in nail art at Elysium Day Spa in Parker, CO. Her art has been featured in Sports Illustrated and several other publications. She has been a top nail art competitor, a competition judge and an educator for a major manufacturer.