Seafoam Beach nails tutorial

This week's tutorial was a bit of a challenge for me, specifically because we're dealing with a really awful heat wave, so I didn't have any inspiration and honestly, I also didn't have any will to paint nails, because to preserve the integrity of the process, I try to not use my fan in that time. You can see where that's going. So I am giving you a tutorial of one of the places normal people escape to when it gets hot!

 

This technique is a variation of the nebula we did on our Holographic Space nails, which means our main tool will be a ripped make up sponge. The array of polishes I used is:

All of these polishes have been fairly inexpensive, ranging from 1 to 2€, so it's honestly not that expensive to get started into painting your nails at least in Spain:

• Note's Coastal Seaside
• Deliplus' Base Nº860
• PS' Barely There
• Essence's Sugar Touch

I will start with my ocean. I went for a seafoam green, as it's the most blue I'd personally wear, and put two coats to reach full opacity:

You can see that it bubbled a little bit close to the tip, it was the wind of the fan. Also that slight texture of the base of the nail is just seen in a macro lens, one layer of top coat would absolutely fix it. We're going to apply some nail polish close to the tip, adding a bit less in the middle of it. This is the foam:

It looks chaotic and ugly, but this is a nice reference of where do you want to place the next step. You want to take your sandy shade and paint around that thicker white. It will help a lot to apply a new layer of sponged white afterwards to create the wave crashing, and a couple of faint sponged lines:

 

You could marble on the water with any technique you prefer, but I wanted the thicker foam, even though in real life it's way less appealing, talking by experience. My last step would be smoothing it all out with a glossy top coat, and adding a matte top coat to the sand. In my particular case, I used Sugar Touch to also add visual texture. For what I gather, that polish is a matte top coat with iridescent shimmer of different colours in it, and it truly communicates the look in real life!

 Do feel free to tell me what you think of this nail art and if you are looking forward to any particular design or technique, and I'll see you next week!