Cartoon Cellshade nails tutorial

 Welcome to a blast from the past. If you've been orbiting the nail community for some years, you'd probably seen these but they're very simple to make, and ideal for bright colours, which seems to be summer appropiate. I'm not personally a seasonal polish wearer, if I want neon green I will wear it in the winter too, so my assumptions about seasonality are skewed, anyways:

 Get your matte top coat ready, because this look can be as simple or as complex as you'd like but your base products are your colour of preference, I used a neon green, and then black, white and a matte top coat.

Mine were from different drops from my local grocery store:

 They are:

• Deliplus Neon Nº218
• Deliplus Duo Nº900 (I didn't use the white topper, only the black crème)
• Deliplus Base Nº860

This nail art starts painting your nails to your base polish to opacity. Mine took three coats as this neon formula is a bit thin and in two I could see a couple of dark spots:

 The next step is the hardest, pick black polish and outline your nail. Don't worry too much about touching your cuticles, clean up will be there for you. Try to do your nails steady for the best effect, but I understand this requires extra practice:

 As you can see, my lines are not perfect, but close enough. Now, it's time for the white to shine. Literally! You want to apply matte top coat to this later, so that will take out all shine. The white will be there to imply it, that's the effect of the cellshading you are going for. Choose your light source, and do a couple dots or dashes where the light would hit your nail, hypothetically speaking. If you want references, try looking for cellshaded comics to see how they handle it!

 But we can't let the actual shine detract from our fake shine! Let them dry more than usual to avoid smearing the black and then apply a floated coat of quick dry top coat. Believe me, you'll thank me later. After it is dry-touch, apply to the smooth surface your matte top coat. The glossy one will prevent more smearing, as matte top coats tend to smear way more than glossy ones. Wait for it to dry and see the magic appear:

 You can customize it with more effects, like a polka dot pattern implying dithering, or stamping cartoon letters with contrasting colours, but this is the basic version from which you can build on. I will say that a skittle with bright colours in this style looks great if you're into colourful manicures, too!

Thanks for reading and enjoy summer more than me! This week we had a tough heat wave and I am a bit late to avoid messing up my nail polish formulas with opening them and letting hot air sip into the bottles and creating flash evaporations! In any case, next week I have an event so I may drop a tutorial of what I'm going to wear then, but I'm still not sure. Let me know if you'd like it anyways!