I think it's been a year since I first did my gel nail video, where it was my first time
doing gel nails ever, and it's been a journey. I've learned a lot along the way,
made a lot of mistakes that I hope if you watch the first video you're here now to see what I've
learned. Today with the warmer weather, I'm going to be doing similar fun every nail is different,
and if you want to see more nail content give this video a like, it would be really helpful for me to
know what kind of stuff I should make for you, but yeah let's get started. My collection continues to
grow. So my nails are pretty crusty right now, uh because we've been starting on the backyard
I've been digging a lot, being a landscaper. Usually I love doing nail art on long nails
but this is a nice way to show doing nail art on short nails. I was super inspired
because stephanie villa @soothingsista just posted that she did nail art on her friend
and it was so cute, that I was like okay, it's been long enough that I've had bare nails
and it's time to get back in the game, and it's strawberry season. Look at this
humongo strawberry. I drew out everything ahead of time, and also listed the colors
that I'll be using. They're all from bioseaweed. Thanks to you guys this, not this video sorry. I
got a partnership with bioseaweed. Diehard fan, still a diehard fan one year later and uh have
only been using bioseaweed this year. My nails are prepped already and I'll show you how I do
checkered nails. That's the one that people think is tricky, it's not that tricky it's just a pain.
I don't know why I decided to do checkered nails but I mean I love nail art. Did I,
oh I made two right hands. Hmm okay I get it now. So we start with a base of white. So in
my previous nail art videos I showed that I bought this led flashlight. I got myself
an led flashlight. It saved a lot of money because I didn't have to buy a nail lamp off amazon,
which was like 60 bucks. If I bought it off aliexpress it would have been a lot cheaper. I
would just have to wait three weeks, and I didn't want to wait the three weeks.
I'm here to officially say that that was a huge mistake. I don't know what I was thinking getting
a nail lamp where you could put all your fingers in, multiple fingers in. It could have saved me
so much time. Not saying that I won't keep the flashlight for scorpion hunting or checking out
jizz spots at hotels. I'd like to make it official here that please don't buy the led flashlight it
was not a good option. Please just get a nail lamp. So I keep these coats pretty thin since
checkerboard is gonna have so much color on it. So for the checkered part I'm using
teacups. I love bioseaweed but I have to say that their bottles don't really show what the
true colors are. I'll wipe as much of the excess off. I bought these double ended nail brushes off
amazon that I will link in the description. I love them. Make a grid pattern first, oh god.
Sometimes my brain can't compute. Fill in between the lines and if you've made the guidelines
the color won't bleed out. With the white I put two coats as the base but with the purple I just
like to glob on the single color, so that I don't have to go over the lines twice. So
on this pinky I'll do the orange. Oh my gosh I don't know why I signed up, when I design nails
I tend to do most of my complicated nail art on my left hand. This color is called orange dahlia,
and I just clean off my brushes with alcohol. I'm doing yin yang on one of my on my thumbs. Funny
how when I was a kid I would never wear anything with yin yang on it because I was too scared to
be seen as like fobby or too asian. All of my sailor moon stuff because yeah, I just wanted to
fit in with the white kids but uh now now that all these things are coming back trendy i'm like well
i'm gonna yin yang the [ __ ] out of everything. So this pink called marshmallow is gonna be the
base of a few of my nails. This one is more of a translucent jelly color
but I think I'll layer it on a bit more just to make it more opaque. I'm gonna put the base on
for the rest of my fingers. Some people like to do nail art because the end result makes
them so happy but I like to do nail art because the end result and the process makes me happy.
What should I do first I'll do yin yang like I promised. I like doing it with a square flat
brush. I really think whatever tool you like you should just use. There's no recommended.
At the beginning I use the dauber ends of these tools a lot. So the key that I learned about yin
yang is that it's not, you don't start here and draw a line straight down the middle,
you actually start somewhat halfway, and then you draw your swoop like so. Since the marshmallow is
such a translucent color I'm going to leave the circle. Usually I would dot the color on top.
Don't forget your circle. Next one I'll do is flowers, and flowers are very easy
because you're just dotting things really.
In here as well. I love this yellow, it's just a perfect mango yellow.
Strawberry time. This one's directly influenced from Stephanie. One big one here,
and then on this one I'm doing a strawberry party.
And I'm using the finest end of the dauber.
Strawberries might be my newest favorite. I'm only gonna dot some of it. So cute.
Already this has taken half the amount of time simply because I have a nail lamp. While I
have the white, I'm also going to do clouds, which is a very easy one to do, and an egg.
Try to draw the yolk before I cure it. You'll notice that I tap my fingers,
it's just because I'm trying to level it out a bit, but I find that this polish levels,
self levels very nicely. So the last time I did this it took four hours and this time
it's taken two. I need to get like an emerald green. My favorite finger.
It's decided. Smile is gonna be hard to
draw. Try again. This is what I love about gel is that when you wipe off
your nail you're only taking one color off. One more try. Confidence
And there we have it! I love this trend of every nail being different, just use the colors that you
like. Nothing brings me more joy than getting little nails done. If you want all the nail
videos you can find me on instagram or tiktok @letitiakiu and I will see you next time, bye!