Summer Magnetic Strawberry Nail Art Tutorial featuring China Glaze and Masura

I was feeling in the mood for a summer fruit inspired manicure. A few years ago I did strawberry nails and really enjoy how simple they were to create yet how awesome the finished product looked. I've been playing with the Masura magnetic polishes a lot and decided to give a slightly different twist on that strawberry manicure I previously did.

Here's a tutorial video showing all the steps, I've also linked all the products I used below.

               

This easy summer strawberry manicure uses the Masura magnetic nail polish to give a great textured strawberry look to the nails. You'll see why it looks textured in the tutorial video. I thought that was fun to do!

These Masura magnetic nail polishes are so much fun! Magnetic nail polish gives that awesome cat's eye effect across the nails as you move your hand once you have used the magnet on the wet polish. Remember to use the magnet over the magnetic nail polish while it is wet, otherwise you won't be able to see the cat's eye effect come through on the nails. Magnetic nail polish is great for a beginner nail artist because it is really easy to use.

China Glaze hot flash from the China Glaze Lite Brites Collection is the base color for this manicure. Hot Flash is a great true red leaning strawberry red color by China Glaze. It really looks great as the base for this strawberry nail art.

I used the Masura White Base White Quartz in order to create a background shade for the Masura magnetic polish to really stand out on and also the seeds of the strawberries, This also helps give the manicure texture by building up the nail polish on the nail.

What do you think? Have you done strawberry nail art before?

Products Used:
Masura Magnetic Nail Polish: http://www.beautometry.com/Masura_s/2114.htm
Hit the Bottle ASAP Top Coat:
http://www.beautometry.com/Hit_the_Bottle_s/1872.htm
China Glaze Hot Flash:
http://www.beautometry.com/ChinaGlaze_s/1947.htm
Masura White Base Coat:
http://www.beautometry.com/Masura_Base_Coat_White_Quartz_p/masura-base-whitequartz.htm
Masura Magnet:
http://www.beautometry.com/Masura_Magnet_p/masura-acc-magnet.htm
MoYou London Your Magic Workshop:
http://www.beautometry.com/MoYouLondon_SA_YourMagicWorksh_p/moyoulondon-sa-yourmagicworksh.htm

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Products Used:
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-Hit the Bottle Moonshine Stamping Polish
-MoYou London NEW Rectangular Stamper & Scraper
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I wanted to try stamping with it as well so I did an accent nail with Kleancolor Pastel Orange and stamped with the Creative Shop 9 Stamping Plate. These Creative Shop plates are absolutely amazing if you haven't tried any yet! They are very detailed and you can see in the image that it stamped wonderfully even with the intricate lines. I used the MoYou London NEW Rectangular sticky stamper for the stamping.

Have you tried Creative Shop stamping plates yet? What did you think?

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I first started with a thin coat of China Glaze Towel Boy Toy and then a thin coat of China Glaze Kiwi Cool-ada. Then, I finished with a third thin patchy coat of China Glaze Towel Boy Toy. The end effect was that you could see some of the color showing through in certain areas and it really looked like different colors across the nail as I moved my fingers. I think it looked like a faux duo-chrome and was really easy to do!

After adding Seche Vite top coat, I stamped with Hit the Bottle As Black as Night using the MoYou Rectangular stamper and MoYou London Mandala plate 02 (the image in the upper left corner).

I love the way this turned out! It reminds me of a peacock's feathers.

Do you think it looks kind of like a duo-chrome?

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Then I stamped using Hit the Bottle Black and images from the MoYou London Tropical Collection plate 04 with the MoYou London Rectangular stamper.

I reversed the gradient for the accent nail. I just love this look! So bright :)

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I noticed this was pretty opaque, so I tried it for stamping. IT WORKS!!

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Do you have any holos that stamp?

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