Featured Artist: Sheila Haring

Featured Artist: Sheila Haring

Get to know DIY Riot's Featured Artist, Sheila Haring! A professional graphic and web designer, Sheila has a knack for creating amazing works of art not just online, but on her hands too!

Sheila's nail art ranges from rainbows to snowmen, monarch butterflies to adorable little spacemen!

Since it's the season of winter parties, Sheila has provided us with an amazing tutorial on how to create winter trees!


Let's get started…

"Winter Trees Nail Art"

By: Sheila Haring

This nail design was inspired by winter trees in the glistening snow.  

You could use a multitude of color combos but I specifically wanted a really glimmer, iridescent base color.

Items Needed:

• A BASE COLOR Nail Polish (I used 'Essie Luxeffects: Shine of the Times')
• A TREE BRANCH COLOR Nail Polish (I used 'Essie Stylenomics', which is a dark, eggplant color) 
• Beauty Secrets Nail Polish Thinner (to make the tree branches have more of a wispy effect)
• A Clear Top Coat Nail Polish (any kind will work)
• A Toothpick 
• A Plastic Surface, like a container lid (to hold pools of the Tree color in)

(You can purchase the 'Essie' Nail Polishes from Ulta Beauty supply stores or online. The nail polish thinner and top coat can be purchased at Sally's Beauty Supply stores or online as well.)

Step One:

Paint your nails with your BASE color.

Step Two: 
Wait for BASE to dry and paint a 2nd thin coat on top with your same BASE color.

Step Three:
Pour some of your TREE BRANCH color into your Plastic Surface, enough to paint all of your nails.

Step Four:
Pool a few drops of your Polish Thinner, enough to thin out the enamel to create wispy lines, and mix it into your TREE BRANCH color polish.

Step Five:
Using your Toothpick, start at the tip of the nail and drag a jagged line up the nail to create the trunk.

Step Six:
Use the same technique to make the branches, except LIFT the toothpick at the end of the lines to create the thinness.
(Remember less is more when it comes to the size of the trunk and branches.)

Step Seven: 
Let the trees dry completely.

Step Eight:
Apply two coats of you Top Coat Polish, allow for drying between each coat.


And you're done!
Enjoy some super easy winter nails!!! 

(These could very easily translate to Halloween nails with a cool color change or even pretty spring nails if you dot some foliage at the top.)

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Here are a few of Sheila's other amazing nail art designs:

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If you'd like to contact Sheila or see more of her nail designs, please contact her directly at: shepower1@hotmail.com

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