SUMMER NAIL ART Text by GABI ROSSNER Photography by ANA SOFIA AMIEVA-WANG
Looking for the perfect nail art to brighten up your hands for summer? Verde enlisted the help of nail maestro junior Jamie Sitrin to show us her favorite new design. Learn how to master this flowery look in seven easy steps.
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Supplies: Base and top coat, white nail polish, pink nail polish, purple nail polish, mechanical pencil or dotting tool, color of your choice. Step 1: Do all your pre manicure prep — clip, file into your favorite shape, and apply a smooth base coat.
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Step 2: Pick your favorite spring color and apply at least two solid coats to each of your nails. Step 3: Place a dab of white nail polish on a piece of paper and dip either a dotting tool or a mechanical pencil into the white. Dab clusters of white dots onto your nails to make the flowers. One flower is six dots, but you can mix it up and make half flowers too. Step 4: Put a dab of magenta nail polish on the paper. Use your dotting tool or mechanical pencil to put small dots of magenta in the middle of each flower.
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Step 5: Use your dotting tool to put dots of green nail polish around the magenta dots. Step 6: Use either a white nail art pen or a tool dipped in white nail polish to line the outsides of the flowers with white dots. Step 7: You’re done! Apply a top coat, let your nails dry and then show them off to the world!
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SUMMER READING LIST Rookie Yearbook Three edited by Tavi Gevinson this boy’s life by Tobias Wolff The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
Text by ESME ABLAZA
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Wild by Cheryl Strayed Nine Stories by JD Salinger
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