Sunflowers

First tutorial! :D

I kind of love these.

First thing you're going to want to do is choose your colors. Of course. I used Seashell by LA Colors as a base/some of the leaves, and it's a really nice gold-y color. The alternating yellow color, the more bananaish one, is Mellow Yellow by Sally Hansen from their X-treme wear collection. The seeds are Mercury rising by Sinful Colors, Black on Black by Sinful Colors, and Barefoot by Bonita. The leaf is Last Chance by Sinful Colors.

In order from left to right: Seashell, Mercury Rising, Barefoot, Black on Black, Mellow Yellow, and Last chance.

First off, paint all of your nails with the gold color. Make sure to use enough coats to get it completely opaque. This will be the dominant color of your design. Next, use black nail polish and a tiny paint brush to paint a curved line at the upper corner of your nail near the cuticle. Using the same paint brush, paint another curved line near your cuticle that comes out from the side of the first line and curves upward toward your cuticle. This is your first petal. Follow this same technique to create the rest of the petals.

Use the same paint brush and the same black to paint tiny circles (hollow ones, don't fill them in)  inside of the first half circle near your cuticle. These will be your seeds. Fill in 2 or three of the seeds with black.

Use the dark brown and tan to fill in a few more of the seeds, but leave a few of them yellow as well.

Take your lighter banana-yellow and fill in alternating petals. Leave the other ones gold.

On the end of the petals, use black to paint a leaf, and fill it in with dark green. Use black to paint a small line that goes from the petals outward. Clean out the tiny brush you've been using. Pick up the smallest amount of black possible on the very very tip of it and paint faint lines on each petal that go from the inside out.

You can do this same thing on every nail, or just pick one or two to do it on. I only did it on my big toe, and for the rest I used the dark brown and black to do thin stripes that are very close together to mock the seeds of a sunflower.

I hope you love this design as much as I do, have fun with it!