Today is the Tribal Print Nails day :) To be honest with you, I’ve never done anything like this before and I wasn’t even sure how tribal nail art should look like. When it comes to nail designs I prefer all kinds of flowers, butterflies, hearts and other girly stuff. So for this challenge I googled for tribal designs and I saw some interesting Aztec examples. Inspired by this ancient culture I came up with my own tribal print manicure:
I don’t want to say that it looks totally Aztec, I’d rather call it eclectic, because I just used as many tribal symbols as I could – snakes, eyes, stars etc. :)
For the tribal print nails I needed 3 nail polishes and 1 top:
- Orange base color – Essie Capri
- Greenish blue color – OPI Fly
- Black color – Sally Hansen Black Out
- Clear top – Orly Glosser
That’s it, thank you for reading! I hope you liked my tribal nails and now I’m back to work. See you xxx
I would like to know how did you do the designs, did you used a nail brush? or tape?
Hello Roxana :) For this tribal design I used 2 nail art brushes.
Blue base color for the thumbs and ring fingers, orange base for the rest of my fingers. Black SH is well pigmented and therefore quite good for drawing thin lines. OPI was also easy to paint with.
As for Essie Capri – it’s watery and I don’t think I’ll ever try to draw detailed designs with it, because I had to paint each line in 2 coats. It’s only good as a base color.
This is beautiful and you are talented! Great job!
Thank you Karen :)
This came out very well, bright and nice colors too!
cute nails!
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