STYLE} nail art studio Cinco de Mayo Celebration
1. Apply a reverse French application with Young Nails Frost Pink Acrylic. 2. Mix multiple shapes of glitter with red acrylic, and apply around the smile line. Apply white acrylic and allow it to dry. 3. Apply green, white, and red acrylic vertical stripes. Repeat to make the application wetter. 4. With a stylus, drag the color down through the stripes to create a marbled efect. 5. Apply Aztec design and a coat of clear polish to seal it. Shape and finish by adding rhinestones, and a gel top coat. Yolanda Hernandez, Hair Today Nails Tomorrow, Fresno, Calif.
Mother’s Day Bouquet
1. Apply green glitter acrylic on the tip of a French nail. 2. Apply Yellow glitter acrylic on top of the green acrylic and extend down the nail. 3. Apply glitter acrylic over the yellow and cover with clear acrylic powder. 4. Apply flowers and rhinestones, and finish with a clear gel top coat.
Zitan Zhang, NYC Nails, New York.
Camoflage Nails
1. Apply gel base coat and cure. Apply one coat of gel-polish and cure. 2. On top of the fully cured base color, add beige gel-polish in the shape of branches (do not cure). 3. Apply charcoal gel-polish next to the beige gel polish (do not cure). 4. In the remaining spaces, apply green gel-polish and use a metal-tipped stylus to drag the colors together to resemble camouflage. Cure. Vicki Jenson, Contempo Salon, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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