Nail Dare: Booby Traps

Ok, just to clear things out, I entitled this post as "Booby Traps" because I'll be showing you my friends' (a.k.a. Booby Traps, what the hell, that's our name! Who cares? Haha!) nail arts.

Yesterday and the other day, I painted their nails with different designs, some of them were their ideas, then I was the one who used the brush and the nail paints to draw them. Chloe had the strawberry, Jocs wore the bumble bee, Jen had the tiger and Ai decided to have a cheetah print. So I'll be giving the details of each. And let's start with Chloe's strawberry.

A. Strawberry

1. Use Red as your base color. I used Caronia's Simply Red with Chloe's design. Double coat if it is too thin.
2. Coat the base with a colorless nail polish. You can omit this if you are sure that the base is thoroughly dried or if you think it would be too thick to still add this step.
3. Start doodling the details. I used Caronia's On The Go nail polish for the leaves of the strawberry. Draw short strokes from the base of the nail going towards halfway the center. Make sure to make them look like leaves. Don't play safe, make it a little bit messy to make it more realistic (not too messy, of course.)
4. Play around the strawberry seeds using a nail art brush. Use the black color. Distribute where to put the seeds evenly.
5. Coat the whole design set. You're done!

B. Bumble Bee

1. Use Matte Black as your base color. Double coat if it is too thin.
2. Coat the base with a colorless nail polish. You can omit this if you are sure that the base is thoroughly dried or if you think it would be too thick to still add this step.
3. Start with the line details. Use a Yellow nail polish with a nail art brush. Draw the lines one space from the other to make the body of the bee. Leave the tip of your nails with the black base.
4. For the eyes of the bee, point 2 circles on each nail tip using a white nail polish. It doesn't have to be drawn with a nail art brush. Just paint with a good amount of nail polish on the regular brush and you'll have your desired result.
5. Dry or coat the tip of your nails with the white dots using a colorless nail polish.
6. Apply smaller dots on each white dot using a black color. You can add antennas to the bumble bee by drawing spiral lines using a black nail art polish above the eyes as desired.
7. Coat the whole design with Colorless nail polish.

C. Tiger

1. Use Orange as your base color. I used Caress' Neon Orange for this. Double coat if it is too thin.
2. Coat the base with a colorless nail polish. You can omit this if you are sure that the base is thoroughly dried or if you think it would be too thick to still add this step.
3. To draw the tiger lines, start from the sides that are touching the skin of your nails. Draw strokes on alternating sides. Draw long and short strokes on each segment.
4. Coat the whole design with Colorless nail polish.

*You can use different base colors for this design. Neon Violet, Gold, White Satin and Red would be really great.

D. Red Cheetah

1. Use Red as your base color. I used Caronia's Simple Red with Chloe's design. Double coat if it is too thin.
2. Coat the base with a colorless nail polish. You can omit this if you are sure that the base is thoroughly dried or if you think it would be too thick to still add this step.
3. To draw the cheetah prints, mark your nails with messy strokes of dots and map-like figures. Imagine a real cheetah with a print that's unpredictable and indefinite. I used Caronia's Beige for these strokes. You can use any shade of brown for this. Shades of gray will also do.
4. Using the Black nail art polish, draw lines surrounding the strokes you've drawn on the precious step. Do not totally surround the strokes, leave some parts unlined. Add some other dots and strokes using the black color. Do not play safe on this part. Be the wild cheetah!
5. Coat the whole design with Colorless nail polish.

*This design would also look good on other base colors most especially with the Touch of Tan. I had no Tan nail polish yesterday so I decided to just apply red as the base. Lucky, it still looked good on Aileen's nails.

You can have these designs on your nails too. Just follow the steps or create your own! You'll love doing it, promise. :)

Watch Out: The Americana Nail Polish soon!

For questions, comments or whatever, feel free to ask/tell me. Just comment or message me personally. I would be really glad to answer your queries as soon as I can. I would be really glad to receive some other good design ideas from you guys. :)