Today’s stormy beach nail art is a homage to Cairns, a tropical beach holiday town located in North Queensland, Australia. You may remember a couple of months ago I made a quick trip to Cairns. It is famous as a holiday and wedding destination with pristine blue waters and nice weather. However for the duration of our visit, Cairns decided to play a joke on us and shown us some serious storms. Nonetheless, the view of empty beaches, almost black palms bending in the wind and turbulent skies left an impression and I thought straight away of translating that into nail art. Remember this photo? Well, now it’s on my nails. In loving memory of unpredictable Cairns.
As for the nail design itself, there were two stages. First, creating the reverse gradient and second, painting tiny palms. When I did the reverse gradient it looked so nice and unusual that I ended up wearing just that for a couple of days and later added the palms. If you want to learn trick techniques on how to create gradients or draw palms, this summer sunset nails tutorial from our nail art book would be very handy.
To do these stormy beach nails just follow the above mentioned tutorial using the detailing nail art brush and nail colours listed below.
Used:
- ORLY In the Navy
- ORLY Snowcone
- ORLY Softest White
- Orly Glosser top coat
- SoNailicious 01 Needle detailing nail art brush – to paint palms and beach landscape
- SoNailicious 04 Slayer nail art brush – to clean up
How do you like these stormy beach nails? Have you ever been to Cairns or in North Queensland? Finally, how do you like the unusual Ruffian gradient?
– Maria, xx
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Mina says
Can I just say how much I love the plain look, without the palm trees? Not that they’re not gorgeous – they are – but I just love the polish shades on their own so much!!! :D Gorgeous combination, once more!
Maria @SoNailicious says
Thank you Mina! xx
Saphira Freeman says
the best nail art ! I love them
Fingers says
This is stunning! I love your photos, nails and manis!
Maria @SoNailicious says
Thank you so much! x
Laura says
So, tutorial please!! How did you do this? use a striping brush to do the blue line then smudge with a sponge? LOVE IT.
Maria @SoNailicious says
Hi Laura, there is brief explanation in the post – it’s the inverse gradient. But if you need step-by-step instructions on how to gradient nails, please refer to this tutorial: https://sonailicious.com/ombre-nails-sonailicious-nails/ from our nail art book. x