Simple nail art & brushes question???

[Northern Nails]

I've never claimed to be good at or particularily enjoy nail art. I have always struggled with it. The thing is i have a lady booked in on Thursday who wants, yeah you guessed nail art.

Any ideas on simple designs, and the best type of brushes to use would be great.

Thanks

 

[bellabeautie]

Hi, I use the nail art pens (with a dotter and striper) I find them really good. A very simple design I love is a french polish with two flicks of the black nail art striper brush, with a glitter streak in between. Its quite hard to explain, but it looks really nice, simple but elegant I think! Why dont you have a look at som eof the galleries on here xx

 

[user 25446]

It all depends what kind of nail art you want to do. There are three main categories:

painted acrylic design
coloured gel design
acrylic design (flat or 3D)

The brushes are different for each. Most nail artists have quite a few brushes - but for painting the most popular types are spotters and lines. These are available in different size and the liners in different lengths.

I've heard quite a few people asking this question, so you are not alone. We will have an article about nail art brushes in our new nail art magazine, out June. We also have an interview with a brush manufacturer about how to how to care for your brushes.

If you do a bit of googling, you can find the name of the mag. You have to use your imagination ;-)

 

[dellaznailz]

It all depends what kind of nail art you want to do. There are three main categories:

painted acrylic design
coloured gel design
acrylic design (flat or 3D)

The brushes are different for each. Most nail artists have quite a few brushes - but for painting the most popular types are spotters and lines. These are available in different size and the liners in different lengths.

I've heard quite a few people asking this question, so you are not alone. We will have an article about nail art brushes in our new nail art magazine, out June. We also have an interview with a brush manufacturer about how to how to care for your brushes.

If you do a bit of googling, you can find the name of the mag. You have to use your imagination ;-)

ok I've used my Imaginailtion

 

[Northern Nails]

Thanks for your replies. I've had a look in the gallery and found some simple designs.

What do you think of the Nailtopia stickers?

 

[fifitrix]

It all depends what kind of nail art you want to do. There are three main categories:

painted acrylic design
coloured gel design
acrylic design (flat or 3D)

The brushes are different for each. Most nail artists have quite a few brushes - but for painting the most popular types are spotters and lines. These are available in different size and the liners in different lengths.

I've heard quite a few people asking this question, so you are not alone. We will have an article about nail art brushes in our new nail art magazine, out June. We also have an interview with a brush manufacturer about how to how to care for your brushes.

If you do a bit of googling, you can find the name of the mag. You have to use your imagination ;-)

Bob that is so true, you end up collecting an array of brushes, I have. For acrylic paints you can't go wrong getting them from a good art shop, the better the brush, the better the results, well that is what I have found anyway, I have wasted a lot of money on brushes in the past but not now.

If you start with simple designs it is amazing how you can see what you could do next time. My advice would be get some tips and just try different things.

 

[JessieBee]

I've gathered quite a collection of brushes but I mainly use my detailing brushes and my marbling tool/dotter. They're great for leaves, swirls petals etc because they're nice and small, I get most of mine from craft shops.
It's definately handy to get a striper for lines and flicks and a marbling tool for dots and flowers because they're probably the easiest art to do and they look really nice too.

 

[user 25446]

Bob that is so true, you end up collecting an array of brushes, I have. For acrylic paints you can't go wrong getting them from a good art shop, the better the brush, the better the results, well that is what I have found anyway, I have wasted a lot of money on brushes in the past but not now.

If you start with simple designs it is amazing how you can see what you could do next time. My advice would be get some tips and just try different things.

It's like this - if you put cruddy tyres on a Porsche it won't handle or give you the feedback you need to drive in an optimum way. That's why car manufacturers put super tyres on new cars which handle great and give very low road noise so when you go for your test drive the car performs at it's best - but they are expensive and no dealer stocks these models.

Brushes are the same, you need high quality brushes that allow you to control the material and give you feedback as you work. Cheap brushes = cheap work.

Iryna is going to start offering premium quality brushes soon. She's been testing and these will be the only brushes that are offered and have been tested by a skilled artist. It defies me how other companies offer nail art brushes and they have no artist in their company! Bit like buying a car from a guy with no driving licence! :lol:

 

[Northern Nails]

Thanks for all your help. I'll get practising first with my dotting tool and striper. Maybe i'll take some photos if i'm brave enough....:lol: