Easter Egg nails tutorial

Welcome to another entry of nail art that could and should be many different colours but in my rendition is monochromatic because I literally don't own other colours of nail polish. Hope you enjoy your stay. Today we're going to overcomplicate an Easter egg.

I know this looks quite complicated but it's really doing the same steps over and over until you get the look that you want. Let's review the polishes I'm using, and then we're going to play with them to create the shapes you're seeing:

I used mostly pastels for this look:

• Wild & Young (previously Pinkduck) Blooming Nº420 (heh, not intentional)
• Wild & Young (previously Pinkduck) Acid Collection Nº343
• Wild & Young (previously Pinkduck) XOX Nº11
• Wild & Young (previously Pinkduck Sweet PWR Nº398

I also used a brush and a dotting tool. For my brush, it was a striping brush, as it's the most adequate for the main task. But to begin with, you know the drill, we start with base colour to opacity:

From now on, I recommend using one colour at a time and, honestly, going with your own personal criteria. I am conscious that my full end result is a bit too extreme, specially if you want to replicate it in all nails, but you can use parts of this process to craft your perfect egg. And it's probably cheaper than the real ones, at this point!

 

I placed several lines with my striping brush. My control of the striping brush is not perfect but I demonstrate that you can place things at a different positions. You can put lines a bit separated from each other or touching each other, and both have different effects. Also in my cuticle area, as these are swatch sticks and the shape is a bit extreme, I decided to warp my lines to that extreme. But you can do something else, too:

You can place two lines of the same polish and then fill up the space inbetween to create a wider stripe! I did two in this example, a thinner one in the darkest green and a wider one closer to the free edge. We'll come to these later. The two steps that can make this look more like an egg is adding a row of dots and a squiggly line. The dots are easier and honestly, for the line I struggled a little bit and took it very slowly. I tried my best and it's actually not even that bad, so I'd recommend taking it easy, slow and be confident on your stroke:

You can place the rows of dots and the lines either on top of stripes or on the base, depending on your preference and the space you see available on the nail. I have to admit, my nail ended up being a little busy because I went a bit overboard, so learn also from my mistakes. Although if you're into maximalism, I won't stop you. I can't even stop myself! Now wait. No, but really, wait. You need to wait for this to dry enough to not smudge with your top coat, and float it:

All the unevenness will go away with your glossy top coat. Believe me, nail art usually looks hideous without your top coat of preference because things go in different layers and they are quite noticeable due to the slopes that the natural shine of the polish generates. But Easter eggs in my opinion look better matte. Ironically, these last two tutorials have been matte but with two different vibes:

 Ignore my bubbles from not really applying my top coat properly and the small fuzz. It's fine. Don't worry about it. Also, I want to show you that some regular polishes have fun properties under black light. I didn't do this intentionally whatsoever, I just saw these polishes on regular light while working at it, and chose them in that setting, but I have a black light flashlight and I like pointing it towards my nail swatches for funsies and... this happened:

 Nº11, the medium green, and Nº343, the more saturated pastel green, have black light reactive properties so they glow under these circumstances, leaving the shade that I used as the base and the off white looking flat. And hey, if you're going to an Easter party or something like that, this might be your wake up call to check on your polishes and try to create a fancy nail art!

Next week I will post a new Fakemon Friday so be ready for that, thanks for reading!