• Five Spring inspired nail ideas & tutorials •

Spring is the time to get creative with nail art, and what better way to start the season than with pretty floral finger tips? The more colourful the better in my eyes, so I decided to try out some of the ideas I've seen tutorials for, whilst adding in a few of my own ideas here and there. I'm by no means an expert so I've cheekily chosen five ideas that don't take much effort or skill, but still look effective in the end - genuinely, I'm not just being modest, they really are ridiculously easy if you follow the steps (and some of the tutorials only have 3!) Let me know if you give these a go; if you do, take a photo and tag me on instagram so I can check them out (ddiraimo92).

I often find photo tutorials a lot easier to follow, but for those of you who enjoy reading, I've also written instructions for each tutorial. For most of the tutorials you will need a tooth pick, and for every tutorial you will need to paint your nails with a base coat before the nail art, and a top coat when you're done (I just didn't include these in the steps as they're the same for each tutorial!)

Sweet Florals
1 | Paint your nails with 2 coats of a beige/off white nail polish. Leave it a few minutes to dry.
2 | Paint on some circular blobs using a lilac colour.
3 | Using a white striper, swirl some white nail polish into the lilac blobs.
4 | Repeat the process using pink blobs.
5 | Using green polish and a tooth pick, carefully paint some leaves onto your flowers.

Girly Lace
1 | Paint your nails with 2 coats of a baby pink nail polish. Leave it a few minutes to dry.
2 | Using a white striper, paint a very thin line about half way down the nail.
3 | Paint the top half of your nail with white nail polish.
4 | Add your lace trim by very carefully painting semi-circles onto your thin white line.
5 | Paint pink blobs onto the white half of the nail.
6 | Using green polish and a tooth pick, carefully paint some leaves onto your flowers.

A Field of Daisies
1 | Paint your nails with two coats of blue nail polish. Leave it a few minutes to dry.
2 | Using green nail polish and a tooth pick, draw a very thin line at the tip of the nail. Then begin to draw thin lines onto your nail starting from the tip. The thinner the better.
3 | Mix a little white nail polish into that green nail polish to create a lighter shade of green and repeat the previous step.
4 | Paint 5 white dots onto your nail where the grass ends in a circular shape to create the petals.
5 | Using a tooth pick, drag these blobs towards the centre of the flower.
6 | Blob a little yellow dot in the centre of the petals.

Peach Daisies
1 | Paint your nails with 2 coats of a peachy/orangey polish. Leave it a few minutes to dry.
2 | Using a white striper (teeny tiny nail brush) add some stripes for the petals.
3 | Using a gold glitter striper add a dot in the centre of the petals.

Spring tips

1 | Paint your nails with one coat of blue nail polish. Leave it a few minutes to dry.

2 | Using a white striper, paint a very thin line about half way down the nail.
3 | Paint the top half of your nail with white nail polish.
4 | Paint red blobs onto the white half of the nail.
5 | Using a tooth pick, swirl some white polish into the red blobs.
6 | Mixing a little white and green nail polish, use a tooth pick to draw in some petals for the flowers.
7 | Add a thin line of glittery red polish to separate the white half from the blue half.

I hope you liked these nails and found the tutorials helpful. I've spent my Sunday afternoon watching nail tutorials and having a play with some new stripers I recently purchased! If you didn't want to wear the nail art on all five nails, I think they'd all look lovely as an accent nail. Also, if you aren't a fan of the colours I've used, just switch them up to your preferred colours and see what you come up with. Have fun with it! And tag me in any photos on instagram if you end up giving them a whirl - ddiraimo92.

Happy painting!

Daniela