Nail Art Tutorial – How To Make ‘Butterfly-1’ Nail Design, One Stroke

Hi guys!

I want to share with you one great design, hoping you will enjoy working on and staring at it. It is the first one from my Butterfly-Series and includes the use of one stroke technique. Have fun :)

Butterfly-1

Advice: This design is very beautiful and delicate. The time you need to make it depends on whether you’ll use it on each nail, or just e.g. at your ring nails. The acrylic paints we’re going to use dry very fast and make your work easier. If your mess up your drawing, just clean up with a wet ear stick and repeat the steps. Have fun!

Step by Step Tutorial

Products:

- Nail Polish for the background: cyclamen

- Acrylic Paints for the decoration: black, white, yellow, light blue

- To seal the design: Top Coat

- Additional tools: flat brush (size 4), thin nail art brush (9mm), palette (I’m using a fake CD instead), glass of water, napkin

Products

Design:

1. Polish all nails with a nice color of your choice and let dry.

2. Paint the butterfly we’re going to create first on a normal white sheet. Don’t make it perfect! This step only helps to have an accurate idea of what motive exactly you want to create in advance.

3. Dip one side of your flat brush in white and the other one in yellow acrylic paint. Of course, you can combine other colors of your choice. Always dry your brush in a napkin in order not to make the paints too wet. Paint two small butterfly wings – make the upper one bigger.

4. Outline the wings with black paint using the thin nail art brush. Make pointed edges.

5. Paint the body of our butterfly starting with a big dot for the head and two small antennas.

6. Make tiny white dots at the pointed edges, the body and the antennas. Make one dot as an eye.

7. Make some details on the wings with the black paint. Between them make some thin blue lines as an accent.

8. Apply a top coat! This is very important, because the acrylic paints are water dissolvable. When you’re finished don’t forget to wash the remaining paints with water off of your palette.

DONE!

Wish you a very pleasant time while painting your butterfly :)

Take care!