Flower Field nails tutorial

Today's tutorial is going to be a short, to the point way to make cute flowers on your nails. They're very easy, and your best friend is going to be just a dotting tool, so grab yours in your fav size and let's go!

This technique is highly customizable, you can create a very petite and dainty pattern or be a bit more random, like me. I wanted this organic look, personally, as flowers don't grow in a pattern, usually. The polishes I used for this look are as follows:

 I wanted to play around with shimmery polishes so I made my base a delicate shimmer and my flowers are a bit more obvious shimmers with bigger size particles, giving me the contrast I wanted:

• Sally Hansen Miracle Gel's 918 Under The Tree
• Essence Crystal Power's Be Brilliant
• Essence Crystal Power's Be Passionate

You may want to add or remove polishes from here: you need your base colour, which can be other shades and not green if you want a flower pattern and not a field. Then, the colour of your flowers, which is white for me! And then the optional steps, a green for leaves or a nice warm shade for the center of your flowers, if you decide to do that.

Of course we start with our base colour to opacity, we don't want to have to be mindful of our flower placement to avoid seeing gaps and dark spots. Then, we only have to get our flower shade and do them in the following way: place a dot in the center of the flower, then place several dots around it, touching the center. You can make them closer or just barely touching the center, according to your preference. A good amount of dots for this crown around would be 5 or 6. 4 could read empty and from 7 onwards it can get muddy and turned into a blob. I decided to go with 5.

Creating the centers of the flowers should be easy enough that doesn't warrant an explanation. I didn't do it, but you should wait until these flowers are dry enough and then dot the other colour in the center as you did here. For the leaves, I also used the dotting tool. With my green, I applied the dot loosely, and without lifting the dotting tool, I moved it to the side along the nail to elongate that dot, creating a leafy shape. I tried to put two leaves at most for each flower, but it was not a strict limit.

 

I placed my leaves apart from the flowers to avoid making them bleed into each other and because I was being a bit more abstract. If you want your flowers and leaves closer together, I'd recommend waiting for your polish to touch dry before applying the other shade. And I'd also suggest starting with the center dot and before applying the petals, make the leaves, and let that dry. That way, your flowers will overlap your leaves and it will look a bit more concise and concrete.

That's it for today! It's a very short and to the point post but honestly, these kind of flowers are quite easy to understand when you learn how to do them! There are other varieties that look more ornate and organic but those can be way more tricky to execute and that might be the subject of another day, if you're interested!