
Following up with my first course "Express Acrylic Nails and Dipping Powder Nails for Beginners", this course will take your nail training to the next level, I will help you master all of the most fundamental skills to create beautiful, Instagram-worthy acrylic nail art. When combining these techniques together, you will be able to create dozens of different nail themes and hugely increase the value of your works.
Learn to create the marbled effect by using to contrast colors for the powders. The further the colors are from each other in the color spectrum the more visible the marbled effect. Always pick up the lighter color powder to dap into the more dominant color. Control the amount of the more dominant color - you do not want it to overwhelm the effect unless intended so. Try to use wet powders and "draw on" the marbled details in thin patches. Once mastering the marbleleizing technique, you can be more creative by using different pairs of contrast colors on the same nail. You can also add some slivers (veins) of glitter powders and/or small pieces of foils to enhance your marbled nail art. Encapsulate the whole nail with enough clear powder to create a proper structure for the nail.
Learn to create the traditional French (Pink & White) ombre blend. Once mastering the technique, you can practice ombreing different pairs of colors. For easier blending, choose a pair of colors that are close to each other on the color spectrum. Also, use the lighter color for the tip and the darker one to ombre down whenever you can. Cap your ombre in a thin layer of clear powder prior to filing.
Combining the two popular styles of nail art to create a mixed acrylic nail art.
Learn to create the ombre nail with glitter tip.
Learn this most trendy and super-easy ombreing technique to create Instagram-worthy nail art. Using this technique, you will be able to create a variety styles of ombre nails such as traditional ombre, camouflage, vertical ombre, 3-tone ombre, etc.
Learn to encapsulate nail art objects inside the acrylic nail.
Dried flowers are notoriously difficult to be covered nicely under the clear powder because they often don’t lay flat down. Either you will have to encapsulate them in a very thick layer of clear powder or risk accidentally filing off some sticking up parts of the flowers. Thus in this lesson, we will incorporate the usage of a LED/UV Transfer Foil Gel to create a sticky layer for the dried flowers to adhere to before we cover them in clear acrylic.
Learn the proper way to create this classy French favorite.
Learn to create this more advanced, all-time favorite nail art with acrylic blocking technique.
Learn to create this type of “stone jewel” nail art using acrylic blocking technique. Also, you will learn the proper techniques for rhinestone applications.
This lesson will introduce you to incorporating several different techniques to create a unique mixed acrylic nail art style.
Learn to incorporate gel painting with a dotting tool to create this reptile-pattern nail art. Instead of white powder, you can use any color powder of your choice to create the French tip. Just make sure to use the same powder to pour over the gel painting details when creating the crocodile skin patterns.
Learn to create this favorite Fall/Winter nail art using geometric lines and dots.
Another introduction to gel painting techniques with S-shape and curved lines incorporating with loose glitters or glitter acrylic powder.
In this lesson, you will learn to use C-shape and tear-drop strokes in gel painting to create floral designs.
Learn and practice each of the most popular 3D sculpting techniques.
A quick and easy but very popular 3D nail art.
Learn all the details to create this iconic 3D nail art.
In this lesson, you will use all of the 3D sculpting techniques which you have learned in previous lessons to create a full 3D Bridal Nail.
In this lesson, you will learn two methods of adding colors into 3D designs.
The first method is to use mixed beads of 2 to 3 different color acrylic powders to sculpt the 3D details.
The second method is to create the entire 3D design with white powder, then add colors by shading the design with different color powders.
This lesson is your introduction to the rabbit hole of 3D Acrylic Nail Art. You will learn to create your first 3D character with color acrylic. Also you will learn to use different colors of acrylic powders for shading - a very useful method to add colors to your 3D sculptures.
This whole section will teach and encourage you to incorporate different types of nail drill bits to engrave nail art details onto acrylic nails. Learn to create this magical acrylic nail style and how to correctly use chrome powder.
Learn to create this easy beach nail art.
Baroque nail art usually consists of floral scrolls and swirl leaves in silver, bronze or gold pigments. Engraving such fine details on acrylic nails required advanced skill level in utilizing electric file and different types of nail drill bits to achieve the desired result.
If you love nails and nail art, this course is for you. In this course, you will learn all of the most popular acrylic nail art and gel painting techniques to create 25 acrylic nail art styles. Once mastering these skills, you will be able to create hundreds of creative and beautiful nail art themes.
My name is Andy Hai Dinh, a professional nail artist and educator. I'm the founder of Life of Nails Academy - an online hub for nail tools and nail resources. Over the years, I’ve had the honor to be brand ambassador for popular nail brands such as EZFlow, IBD, China Glaze and Chisel Nail Art. My works has been featured on CND World and different social media platforms which have had gained me 2.8 million views on Google (Hai Dinh -Andy) and 23k thousand followers on Instagram (andyhaidinh).
I will let you know exactly the tools, equipments and products which you need for each course. This course contains multiple short lessons which have been pre-recorded and given full explanation just like me being right by your side to instruct you. Having the advantage to pause, rewind and watch as many times as you like, you will be able to learn, practice and provide artificial nail services together with nail art at the comfort of your own home in just a few short weeks.
Good luck, have fun, make plenty of money and become the nail artist you deserve!