*I'm trying very hard to figure out how to make these pictures look better. Please be kind, I know they are bad quality, I'm working on improving them.*
So this should be our final product:
Now to do this I started with a standard red base coat. I would suggest letting it get so that it's dry to the touch, though it doesn't have to be 100% hardened yet. You defiantly do not need to wait over 10 min for the base coat to dry.
So I then used migi nail art pens for my detailing (link at bottom).
Using them I drew a small set of green lines at the top center of the nail.About five or six lines coming from a central dot worked for me, though you could have less or more depending on how thick you want your leafs to be.
Then using the white I randomly made dots, pulling down just a little bit to give them more of an oval or tear drop shape. When pulling down be sure to pull to the base of your berry, otherwise the seeds look like they are going the wrong way.
Now this can still be done even without any kind of nail polish pen. If you have thin brushes you can use those to make your leafs, though they might be thicker than mine. A think brush can also be used for the seeds. If doing that either make very small lines using the white, or put a small dot and pull just a little, as I did with the pen.
Another way to do this if you only have normal sized brushes is to use a normal straight pin (the kind used for pinning cloth before you sew it) for help.
With this technique for the stem put a large dot of green on the end of the nail, and then take the pointed end of the pin and pull out from the dot of paint. If you need you should add more green and keep trying to pull it. With this you wont get very distinctive leafs but it is still clear what they are.
Now for the seeds you can either dip the pointed part of the pin in the white and use it to draw short lines, or dip the head of the pin in the white and use that to made dots. With either technique I always dab the pin once on a tissue before putting on my nail, because often there is too much paint on it. If you use the pin head and do dots, you can also then take the point and pull the dot a little to get more of a teardrop shape, though you have to be pretty quick about it. Here's the nail I did without the pen:
My non-pen nail (shown above) was not quite as good as my others, but I did not spend any time practicing the design that way. I would suggest trying out the pin a few times on paper or a test nail first. My biggest problem was that my dots were a little big, and I tried to pull the white paint too late after I did the dot. Still I feel confident that given a try or two you can defiantly get a good looking strawberry using pens or not!
Please feel free to leave any suggestions for ways to improve on this design, or any ideas for new designs!
Happy painting to all!
Migi nail link: http://www.miginailart.com/
(I am in no way sponsored by migi nails or anyone else)
