Nail Art Tutorial: Coachella Tribal Nails

Coachella Nail

If you are attending any music festival this season, or just want a tribal style that’s casual and fun, try this! MARS the Salon in West Hollywood shows you how.

1. Apply a base coat.
2. Apply a sheer beige nail polish on the thumb, middle, and pinky finger.
3. Apply a light beige nail polish on index and ring finger, and create French lines.
4. Draw a circle with a light beige nail polish on the center of the thumb.
5. Draw lines on the French lines on index and ring fingers with dark brown color using a thin paintbrush.
6. Draw a small flower with a dark brown nail polish on the index finger.
7. Draw half moons with dark brown nail polish along the line of the French line on the ring finger.
8. Draw lines (half almond shape) and surround the small flower with dark brown nail polish on the index finger.
9. Draw lines along half moon part with light brown nail polish on the ring finger.
10. Draw a line around the light beige circle, and draw an “s” line on the center of the circle with a dark brown nail polish
11. Draw horizontal lines and vertical lines with dark green nail polish on the bottom part of the middle finger.
12. Draw a line with orange nail polish above the green lines on the middle finger.
13. Draw four curved lines from the bottom part to both sides of the pinky with a dark brown nail polish
14. Draw inner lines with dark brown nail polish along the outer lines of the circle area on the thumb.
15. Draw half moons along the outer line of the circle part on thumb.
16. Draw half moons around the almond shape part on the index finger. 
17. Draw vertical lines on the orange line and draw small triangles above the orange line on the middle finger.
18. Draw vertical lines with dark brown nail polish on the light brown line and draw a line with dark brown nail polish above the light brown line on the ring finger.
19. Draw a small line between 2 curved lines, draw a “V” line above the curved lines and draw half moons along the “V” line with dark brown nail polish
20. Draw small lines between inner lines on the thumb and draw half dots inside of the half-moons that surround the circle on the thumb.
21. Draw four triangles with dark brown nail polish above small triangle part on the middle finger.
22. Draw small half almond shapes along the line on the ring finger, fill the almond shape area and draw lines that surround the small half almond shapes on the ring finger.
23. Draw small flower and dots with dark brown color inside of the right curved line on pinky.
24. Draw small half moons and half dots with dark green nail polish inside of the left curved line on the pinky.
25. Draw 2 flowers with light brown nail polish and 2 dots with a dark green nail polish inside of the circle on the thumb. 
26. Draw 3 leaves with dark brown nail polish above the circle on thumb.
27. Draw 3 dots with dark brown nail polish on the index finger.
28. Draw horizontal lines with dark brown nail polish above the triangles on middle finger then draw diagonal lines inside.
29. Draw 4 dots with dark brown nail polish on the ring finger.
30. Draw dots with light brown nail polish inside of the triangle on the middle finger.
31. Draw dots with orange nail polish between the lines on ring finger, and draw dots with dark brown color on half moon parts on the ring finger.
32. Apply a top coat.

[Courtesy of MARS the Salon]

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