Floweret Watercolour Nail Art Course

Product Checklist:

• Velvet / Satin Matt topcoat (ensure your matt topcoat cures without and inhibition layer)

• LED Curing lamp

• White gel polish

• Rubbing Alcohol / Isopropyl Alcohol (70% or higher)

• Watercolour paint, my recommendations: Nevskaya Palitra Sonnet / White Nights or ROSA Gallery Fine Art Watercolour Paints

• Watercolour brush, my recommendations: Roubloff #1 / #1,5 round kolinsky brush(DK13R)

• Practise nails / tips

• Lint free wipes

• Mixing tray with a flat surface

• Spray bottle with water

• 2 x Glasses with water (one will be used to wash / rinse your brush and the other will be used for clean water, this should remain clean.

• Paper towel to wipe your brush

When doing watercolour nail art, you want to ensure you work on a white matt surface.

• If you an acrylic nail technician, you will work on a white/milky white acrylic. Apply your matt top coat after your finish filing.

• If you are a nail technician working with hard gel or gel polish you will use your white gel polish as a base colour and apply your matt top coat and then start with your watercolour nail art.

Always ensure that you have wiped your matt top coat with rubbing/isopropyl alcohol and a lint free wipe before starting with your design.

Educate your client to not touch the prepared surface since any oil will prevent the watercolour from adhering to the matt surface.

Your paint consistency is one of the most important rules when it comes to watercolour nail art. Ensure that your gouache consistency is 100%.

When your paint is too watery - you will struggle to create an ombre in the beginning of your petal. You will also have challenges creating beautiful thin stems.

I will recommend that your practice as much as possible of your petals before starting with your designs - focus on the following:

• Correct water ratio from ombre to finishing off your petal

• Focus on brush placement and how the brush move

• Focus on the point of your brush when fading your petal out

• Remember, do not go back to the beginning - the brush will suck up all your colour.

• If your petal has a 'V' outline in no ombre - you are using your brush incorrectly.

• When you have streaks/lines in your petals, you are working to dry.

• If your petal is too dense, your triangles are too big.

• If you petal is very transparent, it could be that you are using too much water OR your gouache consistency is not correct OR you are using your brush incorrectly.

Ensure to practise your stems and perfecting them. Stems should not be thick and/or transparent - it takes away from the soft and elegant of the watercolour flowers.

Important notes:

• Your stem colour should not be black/brown or green but rather and undertone-off for example, a brown-green / yellow-green/brown or a green-black.

• Always ensure you have mixed the following colours : Green Deep, Sepia, Black/Burn Amber/Yellow+ a tiny bit of your petal colour(this colour should not be over powered)

• It is important to mix the correct stem colour that will compliment your flower design

• Your stems should not be straight, rather have a bit of a 'wiggle' or unevenness in it - like how it will be in the nature.

• Ensure your stems are not transparent

• Ensure your stems are not thick

• Load your brush in the right manner for best line/stem results

• Gouache consistency is very important when drawing lines/stems

• Use your brush 90degrees upright and focus on only using the point of the brush by drawing very light for best results.

Once you are done with your design - check the below.

• Is your stem lines thin and dense?

• Check that your stems are not symmetric(balanced) but rather asymmetric(unbalanced)

• Look at your petals, make sure they are not all exactly the same shape/size and direction

• Ensure your petals are small

• Petals should not be dense

• Does your petals have an ombre? (starting dark/dense and gradually ending lighter/transparent)

If you have answered yes to all of the above, proceed to the next design.

Once you are done with your design - check the below.

• Is your stem lines thin and dense?

• Check that your stems are not symmetric(balanced) but rather asymmetric(unbalanced)

• Look at your petals, make sure they are not all exactly the same shape/size and direction

• Ensure your petals are small and end with a rounding

• Petals should not be dense

• Does your petals have an ombre? (starting dark/dense and gradually ending lighter/transparent)

If you have answered yes to all of the above, proceed to the next design.

Once you are done with your design - check the below:

• Is your stem lines thin and dense?

• Is your first petal big and transparent?

• Is the following(all other petals from your first petal) petals going smaller and darker with each petal?

• Look at your petals, make sure they are not all exactly the same shape/size and direction

• Are your petals transparent? In other words, can you see the borders of each petal?

• Does your petals have an ombre? (starting dark/dense and gradually ending lighter/transparent)

If you have answered yes to all of the above, proceed to the next design.

Once you are done with your design - check the below:

• Is your stem lines thin and dense?

• Is your lavenders small?

• Is there spacing between the lavender petals?

• Is your lavender starting wider from the bottom and gradually ending more narrow?

• Are the petals small enough and did you use different shades of purple?

• Are the petals different shapes?

• Does your petals have an ombre? (starting dark/dense and gradually ending lighter/transparent)

If you have answered yes to all of the above, proceed to the next design.

Once you are done with your design - check the below:

• Is your stem lines thin and dense?

• Is your first two petals light?

• Is your half petal coming from back darker an in proportion(not to high)?

• Is the third and fourth petal darker?

• Are the stems growing from one point?

• Are the petals different shapes?

• Does your petals have an ombre? (starting dark/dense and gradually ending lighter/transparent)

If you have answered yes to all of the above, proceed to the next design.

Once you are done with your design - check the below:

• Is your stem lines thin and dense?

• Are the petals starting all at one point?

• Are the petals different shapes and do they have curves?

• Does your petals have an ombre? (starting dark/dense and gradually ending lighter/transparent)

If you have answered yes to all of the above, proceed to the next design.