Best thing about abstract nails is that you don’t have to give much thought in creating a design. An abstract pattern will also work great if you can’t come up with anything definitive to paint on your nails.
The idea is simple – just pick several nail polishes that compliment each other, paint your nails with a background color of your choice, draw some lines, and then add some colorful little bits and pieces wherever you see they fit.
For the abstract design I chose white background and 3 colors that always go well with each other: blue, grey and black.
The polishes I used for the abstract look:
- OPI Alpine Snow – white creme
- Orly Snowcone – muted blue creme, a very well pigmented one coater
- Rimmel Grey Matter – my bottle is half used already, and the polish is too thick now to paint my nails with :( but it still works for painting small bits in nail art
- Cult Nails Nevermore – perfect black creme
All the lines are hand painted with a nail art brush #0, and the design is sealed with a clear top coat.
I hope you like the abstract nail design. Thank you for reading! xxx
It’s really gorgeous Mari, but you know I love designs like this :)
Thank you Maria :)
Oh, I love abstracts! I have Snowcone and love it! It works so well with your design! Have you tried adding thinner to your bottle of Rimmel?
Yes, Snowcone is amazing :) No, I didn’t, because I don’t have nail polish thinner..
a really lovely design….it’s not for the shaky hands though hehe ;)
Thank you Jelena! You are right, the lines require some practice, but it’s nothing difficult really :)
Beautiful! The colors you used look lovely together.
Thank you Lindsay xxx
Как Вы написали “idea is simple – just pick several nail polishes that compliment each other”, читаешь все так просто))) но неповторимо красиво! Оочень красиво!
Спасибо :) На самом деле все повторимо, просто нужно немного практики, ну и еще не делать макро фотографий :D
This is amazing!!! How can you be so exact with your brushstrokes?
Thank you Susan! It’s all about practice, and actually the lines are not absolutely perfect.. There were some miner flaws, but they weren’t noticable irl..
For a moment I thought this might be acrylic colors, but I was pleasantly surprised, nice pattern and color choice :D
Thank you dear :) I was going to use acrylic colors in the design, but in the last moment I thought I’ll try to paint it with regular nail polishes instead :)
I love abstract manicures and this one is very special, I like the combination of colours, I like that it looks simple but perfect! :-)
Thank you dear :) xxx