With summer just around the corner, your clients will no doubt be requesting all of the fun sunshiny colours for their mani. From a twist on a half-moon colour-block to playful flowers, Bio Sculpture shows you how to get three brag-worthy looks with their summer Carnival collection.

Colour-Block

Gels & Tools Used: Base Gel, Soft Gel, Hard/Medium Gel, Colour Gels #1, 106, 172, 173, 175, Gloss Gel, Upper Arch Brush, #17 Deluxe Nail Art Brush, Dotting Tool.

1. On a prepared nail, apply a layer of Base Gel. Cure.

2. Draw a half moon shape with colour gel #175 Havana Nights, cure and repeat.


3. Draw another half moon shape towards the opposite side with colour gel #173 Ipanema Sunset, cure and repeat.

4. Apply colour gel #1 French White in the remaining centre section and cure.


5. Apply a second layer of #1 French White. Do not cure.

6. Using a dotting tool and colour gel #172 Favela Sunrise create dots in the white gel, cure.


7. Add silver glitter or colour gel #106 to the white gel cure.

8. Create Upper Arch with Hard Gel or Medium Gel, cure.

9. Apply final layer of Gloss Gel, cure.


Marbling

Gels & Tools Used: Base Gel, Soft Gel, Hard/Medium Gel, Colour Gels #1, 175, 2017, Gloss Gel, Upper Arch Brush, #17 Deluxe Nail Art Brush.

1. On a prepared nail, apply layer of Base Gel, cure.


2. Apply a layer of colour gel #1 French White, cure


3. Apply second layer of colour gel #1, do not cure.

4. Randomly dot uneven droplets of colour gels #2017 Liquorice, #175 Havana Nights and #1 French White, do not cure.

5. Sprinkle a tiny amount of glitter onto wet gel.


6. Using a metal pick or clean dry deluxe nail art brush drag the gel droplets in circular and half circular motions across the nail surface to obtain a marbling pattern. Cure


7. Create Upper Arch with Hard Gel or Medium Gel, cure.


8. Apply final layer of Gloss Gel, cure.

Flowers

Gels & Tools Used: Base Gel, Soft Gel, Hard/Medium Gel, Colour Gels #1, 172, 174, 175, Gloss Gel, Upper Arch Brush, #17 Deluxe Nail Art Brush, Gems, Feather, Dotting Tool.

1. On a prepared nail, apply layer of Base Gel, cure.

2. Apply colour gel #172 Favela Sunrise half way up the nail from the cuticle, cure and repeat.

3. Apply colour gel #175 Havana Nights onto the free edge side of the nail, cure and repeat.

4. Apply a thin layer of Soft Gel over the entire nail, do not cure.

5. Place 3 circles of 5 white dots each onto wet gel. Place smaller dots with colour gel #175 and #174 into the centre of the white dots, do not cure.

6. Drag the centre of the dots inward using the tip of an Upper Arch Brush to create flower petals. Do not cure.

7. Place gems in the centre of each flower.

8. Using a dotting tool create lines of dots using colour gel #1 French White, cure.

9. Create Upper Arch with Hard Gel or Medium Gel, cure.


10. Apply final layer of Gloss Gel, cure.

Optional Feather can be added by using a droplet of Hard Gel after nail is completed.