With Chinese New Year just around the corner, I've created a set of red embedded acrylic rose design for my sister.
This is my first time creating embedded acrylic flowers. They are a little bit more time consuming but they certainly look very pretty. I've decided to create a tutorial for this post. Hope you'll give this a try too.
First you'll need some red colour acrylic powder and some monomer.
I'm using a nail tip here for demo but if you're applying over your natural nails, remember to prep it as you normally would for acrylic overlay.
Apply an even layer of the red acrylic over your nails.
After the acrylic hardens, gently roughen the surface with a nail file.
I've got 2 types of gold glitter here. One is an extra shimmery gold glitter and the other is a flaky glitter.
Apply the flaky glitter at the top part of the nail and the other one at the bottom of your nail.
Using white acrylic powder, draw a 3D rose flower. Don't make the petals too flat. Give it some thickness.
Next, I'm going to introduce to you a new product I bought. It's the Young Nails Imagination Art Liquid. The one I got is red colour, but they've also got blue and yellow. You can mix the colours together to create different shades of colours!
This clear coloured liquid is then added to your regular monomer.
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| Looks like blood! |
Be careful handling this liquid. It is extremely pigmented. I accidentally got some onto my skin, nails and table and it took me ages to clean it out!
Mix the red colour liquid into your monomer with a brush. Dip the brush into the red monomer mixture and then dip it into the pot of clear acrylic powder. Your clear acrylic powder will turn red.
This liquid is great because you can mix the colours and get different shades of clear acrylic. It's handy if you don't have non opaque jelly like acrylic powders.
Apply the clear red acrylic ontop of the 3D rose and cover the entire nail evenly. At this stage, you can add more glitters.
Allow the acrylic to hardden and dry out. Then use an electric file to file back the clear red acrylic until the white rose petals start to appear. You can manually file it back as well, but the electric file will definitely be faster.
Use a finer file to even out the nail and then apply a layer of gel to seal it.
These are some of the other nails that I've created using the same method. You can also just embed the gold glitter and flaks. They look very nice on their own as well.
Happy Chinese New Year!
