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How to Use Your Nail Eyes

by Holly Schippers | March 24, 2015 | Bookmark +

Hopefully by now you are familiar with my term #naileyes and have been using the hashtag to get ideas and inspiration for your nail creations. Another part of nail eyes is breaking down images into parts so that you can take that inspiration and turn it into nail fashion. My clients have even discovered that they can employ their own nail eyes and bring me ideas they would like to see on the nails. Here are a couple of the most recent requests and how you could break them down to make the designs possible.

The first client is a PR rep for her company and asked that I do the logo for a meeting.  The logo is a little intimidating at first due to the small curves and points. When presented with an outline or shadow style design, my suggestion is that you look at it in parts versus as a whole. What shapes or lines can you see? The bird she requested has a triangular shaped body, beak, and tail combination. Can you see what I mean? If you separate the wings from the body, they are simply sideways parenthesis that are thicker through the center than on the tips. By first drawing the triangle then the wings, the design becomes possible. After creating the bird with a detail brush, a stylus (marbling tool, dotting tool, etc.) could be used to curve and sharpen the wing tips and the triangle tips to create the beak and the tail. This would need to be done with CND Shellac or a ge- polish to allow the forgiveness of crisping up the points.

The next client chose a shirt and accessories to represent the design she wanted created from the nail eyes she used to get ready. Her shirt provided the overall nail color and the necklace could be represented in a lot of different ways. She is a very feminine and outgoing person that appears dainty yet can be hard working. For me, the design needed to capture and flaunt that feminine attribute in a flirty and fun way. This was easily done by taking the pearl and gold of the necklace and translating it into dots. The flirty element is in the whimsical winding of the dots over the nails as if her necklace came out to play. To achieve a look like this, you can create the pattern with one color of dots leaving enough space for a second color of dots in between the first. Once you finish that winding pattern, come back to fill it in with your second color of dots. This could be done with normal polish or a UV cured color.

Hope this help you to continue to develop your #naileyes be sure to use the hashtag so I can see what you come up with!

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