Summer Nail Art 2021 | Blue Dolphin Nail Design

With Sydney’s weather not really acting like its summer, I thought it was time to bring summer vibes to my nails with this Summer Nail Art 2021 design! This year’s design features some awesome blue dolphin nail art stickers that I got for Christmas!

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Summer Nail Art 2021 – The Base

For this design, I was really conscious to not choose a strong colour to ensure the stickers would be able to be seen easily. I also knew that I wanted to include some stamping or create some sort of ocean nail art. I wasn’t sure how it would look so using one of my practice wheels I decided to try out a few ideas. After the experiments, I landed on a white base with some light blue stamping.

For the white, I used Alpine Snow by OPI my favourite white polish. I only added two thin coats. Although it could have done with 3 the stamping and stickers would mask the opaqueness.

The Nail Art | Dolphin’s and Ocean Swells

For the nail art part of this design, I used a light blue stamping polish by Konad to apply a swirl pattern from Maniology stamping plate M091 (use code THENAILCHRONICLE for 10% off at maniology).

Now that my ocean had been created I began to add the nail stickers from sports girl. To make things easier I used tweezers to remove the stickers from the sheet before placing it on my nail.

To seal in the design I added two layers of topcoat.

You could also create a blue to white ombre base or just leave the base colour plain using white or a light blue polish.

Overall

This design didn’t quite turn out how I imagined in my head. However I still really liked it and the summer vibes created.

For more Summer Nail Art 2021 designs check out my other posts here: How to: Summer Ombre Nails