3 Easy Chinese New Year Nail Art Ideas

Chinese New Year is happening in a couple of days! So to kill my boredom today, I am creating 3 super easy nail art design to prep my nails for the day. 

1.  Gradient Bokeh

Using red polish (of course) as my base colour and layer it with silver (transparent) blink polish. I did not use anything but the brush of my polish to create this gradient effect. Fyi, this gradient effect is very different with ombre effect. 

How to:

1. First, blot the brush of your polish on a piece of paper until it almost leave no liquid/ polish (dry) on the brush.

2. After that, smudge it on the 3/4 of your nail. Your nail will look very messy now but that's fine.

3. Repeat the first step but now focus on your 1/2 of your nail. By this time, you will begin to see the gradient on your nail.

4. Now you can fully dip your brush on your polish but only to smudge the tip of your nail.

5. You will now see gradient colour on your nail but still look messy.

6. Top it off with silver blink polish to complement the look and to hide the messiness underneath. 

2. Playful and Cute

This playful and cute nail design is very fun to create. I use red and yellow polish for the dots lining for the sake of  CNY!haha. I don't use yellow polish that much. So how do I create the perfect slanted red polish?

How to:

1. Cut your masking tape into small pieces and tape it on the area that you DONT want to paint. In this case, I tape the bottom half of my nail.

2. Paint red polish on your nail normally. You dont have to worry staining the other side because of the tape partition.

3. Wait until it's dry and peel off the masking tape.

4. Now you can see two different colors on your nail with a clean line. 

5. Use the end of your bobby pin to create the dots in the middle.

3. Mysterious 

This last but not least design turns out to be my favourite. It is actually more like a Halloween design than CNY design! But who cares it's still red!haha.. This is a gradient concept so scroll back to the first design if you want to know how. The different is Im using a Maroon Red Glitter Polish here, so I skip the Silver Blink polish.

even my cat likes it :D

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy this small tutorial! 

Happy Chinese New Year and hope you have a prosperous year ahead!

xx, Jessy