Crystal Nail Tutorial: Jade Nail Art(really green fluorite)with Gel Polish|Stone/Quartz/Marble Nails

So last time I recreated this orange calcite. This is what we got. Pretty decent if I do say so myself. This time we're doing green fluorite. So let's see how I do. Hello everyone. Welcome back to my channel. So in today's video I'm going to be creating this set for you guys. And these almost creep me out. Even though I did them like how close they look like an actual stone or crystal. I was kind of going for jade. I'm gonna be honest. But we ended up with something close to what looks like green fluorite. And I think it's amazing. So get right into it. I filed down her nails pretty low. I knew that this was going to take a minute. And so I wanted to just leave out that part. So here we are. I filed down what she had previously. She had if you noticed I hadn't recorded the past few of her sets. This is my mom y'all. You know I do her nails often. And she's been getting something simple. It didn't really seem worth it. But you know not that she's not worth recording. But it's just a simple polish. Literally just like simple polish. Anyways so we filed that down. And so you'll see her nails look crazy. She had one that had a chip. No I didn't have a chip out of it. But it was lifting. So I went ahead and filed it down because it was separating. And because I don't want any air pockets or anything like that. To get any green spots for liquid, water, bacteria to get up under there. So then she broke one on her other hand. You'll notice so I had to sculpt that out. So you'll her nails are uneven appearing. That's what I'm trying to say because there's product on there. There's different layers of builder gel. This actual pinky has one of the daily charm full cover tips on it that's grown out. So it lasted really well. It's one of the ivory ones if you're interested on how that went. It was just on that one pinky that I'm working on right now. So I was removing the cuticle with the skiver bit from Atwood Industries. It wasn't the mini but not that there's anything wrong with it. But for those who ask that's what it was. This right here is the round bit from Atwood Industries. And so I removed the cuticle from her nail plate. Then I'm flaking off any dead skin from her actual living skin. Did that real fast. We're getting right down to the nitty gritty. So in this set I'm using the gel pot builder gel and the rubber base. And these are some of the colors I'm going to be using. Now I'm going to be honest this set took a while building up all the layers and everything. So it was very involved. These are the colors that I used. And you'll be kind of be able to tell this is the main color that I use. And then there's one called deep emerald. I think I showed a little later. That's one that frequents. But I use a little bit of the other ones here and there. These two I thought I would use and I didn't. But I still want to show them because they're very cute colors from the gel bottle ink. Just in case you're interested. I actually tried to use one in the base. I decided I didn't want any iridescence or sparkle. I know weird right. But I just decided I wanted to keep it real just straight cut whatever that means. So I'm dehydrating her nail and then I applied a acid free primer. And then I'm going in with the gel bottle rubber base. And this is to ensure great adhesion of her nails. And so this is how we're doing it. We're just polishing this on to all of her natural nail. And then we're going to go ahead and cure in the light. So that's where we're at. And really that's where we're going to take the design from. We're getting an even base and we're going to start from here. Okay so this is the Deep Emerald color. It's from Madam Glam. You can use Cotabatha. Get 30% off. And I added this color Heart Attack. I use it a little bit. But really that Deep Emerald. Milk Bath I use a little bit more. I wanted to show you. It's a milky white. I use this white gel paint from Wildflowers. The Alpha Oval Brush. There's a link down below. The Poochie's Nails Liner Brush. I don't have a link for it. But if I get one look down below. But you can just google her website. See if it's available. So I'm starting off with creating what I like to call with my air quotes. As you can't see my main veins. I don't know what these are technically called. But here I'm going to show you. This is an example. Example. I make sample an example. Of what I mean when I'm circling in red. These kind of. It looks like it's cracked in a way. Somebody who's like a crystal specialist will know what it's called. But that look to me is something I'm always trying to imitate. When I do like stone nails. Crystal nails. Gem nails. I mean if that's a characteristic of the actual stone. You know everything that's not something that's a part of all crystals. I'm not a crystal expert. I just know that it's not necessarily a part of it. But that's a. I hate to sound redundant with the same word. But a characteristic of them. That I really think stands out. And it's kind of hard to imitate. But just using one layer of white. And like moving it around. How we generally do marble nails. How you see me do it in the past. And probably plenty of people. Nothing wrong with that. That's a beautiful look. It's created beautiful nails for all of us in the past. If you see my rose quartz nails and stuff like that. But adding this kind of. And I'm going to call it these veins that look like they're. The stone's completely smooth. But it just looks like a crack. And it goes deep. And again excuse my ignorance. I don't know what it's technically called. And I don't even know if I know how to google it. Ain't that something you don't know how. What to google. You're so out of the know of something. Like yeah I don't know what words to describe this to know what it is. Or is it just me. Anyways. So I just want to emphasize and clarify for y'all. What I mean when I'm doing the main veins. And why I spend so much time on this. It's something. I don't think it's the most important thing. Have to include it with every crystal work. But it's something for myself. I've been trying to achieve the look of. And I feel very accomplished I think. You know if I do say so myself. I kind of got it. Okay. Okay I'm gonna just give myself that little pat. And say that. And so I thought maybe y'all would like to know how I did it. And it's not anything mind-blowing. So I drew these main veins. I'm gonna keep on going back to these lines. And re-emphasizing them. But I drew the line and you see I fanned it out. I just feathered it out. And then I cured it. Then I'm going back over again the same ones. And I'm making sure that one part of the line is completely solid. You see it's very. That makes it look like it's closer to the surface. And the rest is kind of going back. We're trying to create essentially a 3D effect. And this is the sculpted nail. I know it looks crazy. And I honestly should have gained my shape. You know I'm so out of touch in doing nails. I'm getting back to it. But something I'll forget is shaping the nails before I do a design like this. I should have regained my shape. My coffin shape a little bit more. You'll see in the end I followed just a smidge of the design off. But we fixed it. We'll talk about it later. So be better than me. And regain your shape a little bit before you do something like this. It wasn't devastating by any means as you can tell. But you know be better than me. So I'm taking some of that clear gel pot from Gel Bottle Ink. It's a builder gel. And I'm mixing that lighter green color that went from the Vetro Gold line. And I'm doing that to have a base of a builder gel essentially. Those white veins really didn't add anything. They didn't add any structure. Really nothing to the nail at all. So we don't even mind them. We want to start off. I want to start off with a harder gel. And then put some other gels in it and then encapsulate with a harder gel again. So I'm mixing clear with these various colors. One of them Deep Emerald and the other one I think maybe the Heart Attack color. But as I mentioned it was I had a hard time you know keeping up with showing the camera just because I was so very involved with creating this and it took a while to do. But I know that Deep Emerald is a color that I really liked and that Vetro I think it's called I Want My Edamame or something like that. It was a key color. So I'm taking that lighter mix that Vetro mixed with that builder gel. And I'm adding a little bit of the other greens that I mixed together. Those darker tones. And we're starting to add depth and character to the nail to the stone. So we're trying to capture that and I'm just blotting it around and I will always emphasize this if you watch my videos I'll say every time please look at an actual picture of what you're trying to recreate instead of trying to go from your mind unless you've done it a million times and you're familiar. Go with an actual picture and pull out different characteristics of that and try to recreate that. So like look at you know maybe a little section like okay there's two veins going at a diagonal it has a big you know dark green spot here medium green here blah blah blah you know and go from there until you feel like you get it down you can kind of create that randomness and those characteristics from memory. But until you do if you're until you're absolutely super familiar please look at a picture that's what I'd recommend. So I'm just doing many and plenty of mixtures over here you guys I'm trying I'm going for like different tones and different opacity too. So the color I mixed up right here is not as translucent as the other colors and I'm just adding different tones of these greens trying to get what I have in my head. So I want some sheer colors some kind of translucent colors some more opaque colors different tones that's what I'm going for. So I'm just mixing that and I'm just using the back of a poly gel brush that has the flat part that you're supposed to scrape it off with. So I know that's not the best thing but that's what I was doing. And so I did the the light green with a random dark green spot secured that in the light. Like I said I'm going to keep going back to these main veins and I'm doing that same technique and then I'm adding a little extra splotches of white. You'll see me go in and do that just to add more characteristic. I'm just tapping some in some random areas just again to add character texture irregularities. So you'll also see on this one I've moved the line over a little bit I move it off of what it originally was a little bit and we're talking about in terms of like millimeters. Half of a half of a half of a millimeter. So I move it wherever the solid part of the line is I move it a little bit past that and that's just going to create that depth more so. And again we're talking about a very minuscule amount but every time I do it I want to move it just a little more from the solid part if that makes sense. So you see the I just move these a little to the left because they're faded out to the right. As you can see hope that makes sense. So the next time I do it I'll move it even a little bit tiny more to the left and this is going to create that depth that main vein. Again I keep saying that I don't even know if it's a real term but y'all know what I mean that kind of cracked look. I'm sorry for being repetitive but I mean this process kind of it kind of is honestly we're just I'm just going to be adding different layers of character to the stone. This time I added those I retraced my main veins cured it and then I'm going in with that translucent deep emerald green I mixed with clear and I just mix it with clear top coat that's it. And then I'm adding some of that third color I mixed after that more opaque kind of color with that different tones of green I want to get that in just in random spots and then I am going to again I'm just taking the color and you see I added on I just kind of blended it out. Again I mean it's nothing too technical when you see it done it doesn't look like there's any crazy skill that's needed for this. There's there's not I don't feel like there is. I would really love for you guys to try to recreate these. I know that's something you're going to be oh I'm intimidated I don't think I can. Yes you can don't even say that and for those who know you can shout out to you y'all get out there and you try. Okay I want to hear it try and do it you can do it it's nothing too difficult. All right all right we're back. So I'm just doing that same thing I'm painting that sheer emerald color. Oh also you guys try this with different colors of course. I'm gonna oh I didn't even tell you guys I'm using a white just regular nail polish just regular nail polish that's white and I'm taking acetone and dispersing the white. You can see I'm just moving around and this is going to add just fine detail just little small little vein work and shadows and just more character to it. So you can see I'm moving around I don't want nothing too bold with this to stand out. I'm not looking for a lot of it but I'm looking for it to create like I said just those fine details so and this is usually what I would do before I've you know practiced and feel like I've tried to refine my marbles. Would you call this a marble? It's really a crystal recreate I don't know whatever you want to call it okay. So I used to just use like the white over a green or a pink or something like that move it around and make these my main kind of veins and that's it. Boom that's my rose quartz now. No no no we're on to the next level now we are. So I do want to recreate the rose quartz I really do. You guys if you want me to recreate the rose quartz put a rose in the comment box because if you haven't seen my first one see it it's a it it's a beautiful nail and if you like that I mean some people that might be their preference. This is a more elaborate design and I want to tell you if you're a nail technician and you're charging for this please charge for this. Please charge like to the point of like fifteen twenty dollars a nail charge for this on top of whatever your fill is or your base is. I ain't even joking. If you're gonna go with this detail and if you do it do it practice it and make sure you got it good and right. Don't just off top and just watch this video and like yeah now I'll charge twenty dollars a nail for this okay. No get it perfected and then charge for this. This takes time it looks fast and good and fun in this very edited down video charge for it. So I put that white nail polish disperse that out and I'm taking a that lighter vetro color I mix that with a little clear made that sheer and I'm polishing it over and I'm adding more of that deep emerald mix to the nail. And I of course that color is mixed with a little bit of clear but I want you to know that specific color from Madam Glam that deep emerald is a little bit of a more sheer color in general so you can kind of if you want to add a lot of depth and make it a little bit darker you can not mix it and kind of blend it out and so I'm just adding more depth and you see these layers start to build up and you're like oh you're covering a lot of it up. It takes a lot to add that depth to get the character so if you want to stop at any point it looks good to you go ahead but we're trying to this is we're trying we have a mission we have an assignment and we're trying to get it done okay we're trying to get all A's here. I'm an all A student okay it's just me so and then I want to say make each nail different don't make the pattern the same don't make the color distribution the same nothing so I'm just going over the nail with a mixture of one of those other greens it was another sheer color and I'm sorry but I mean this doesn't have to be exactly like this in this order but you see the style in which I'm layering it and I'm curing in between all these layers and then what I'm doing now is I'm taking that darker green and removing it off of my main veins if that makes sense it's going to add a shadow behind it so I put it on there you see I'm wiping it off that main vein and you're going to see the impact of that a little bit later and so that's really a key component besides layering those main veins over and over add a little bit of a shadow behind some of them and it's going to bring it forward because we added depth right beside it behind it so after I do that cured it we have all these different layers going on and then I'm adding that minuscule little cracking type effect crystals can have now I want to say this element I really like in some of the nails it comes across it reads a little better than others what I did is I took that white from wildflowers nails and I mixed a little bit of that emerald green with it because I didn't want it to be a super stark white and I am taking this fine brush and I'm just drawing haphazard and random lines and like I just said it comes across more realistic and believable in some nails than the others and I was really looking at it I've been looking at in my pictures like oh it makes it look real in some nails and not I think I kind of figured it out I think I should have gone some with smaller spacing and some with larger spacing I think it would have come across better on all the nails and that's a very tedious detail to add but I think it's important and I would take my what I've learned from it into account when you do it but definitely try to add just a little bit of actually drawing it keep it very light don't make the lines thick or anything so I like my little palette and I'm using the gel bottle ink builder in a bottle gel and mixing that with that deep emerald and what is that other color y'all I cannot remember but you've seen it in the beginning a color that looks like it to make another type of translucent color and I'm going over it because I wanted to tame down that cracking effect that I just drew now I just wanted to set it a little bit deeper in the nail to kind of help camouflage it not because I wanted it to go away I think I thought that would help with the effect and make it look more realistic and it doesn't it didn't actually need to be that builder gel in a bottle I could have mixed it with clear top coat but I was about to encapsulate with it and it was right there so I just used it so now I'm going back in of course what am I here to do I'm here to bring out these main veins so doing that same technique I've been using time and time again what is this our fourth fifth time going over them it's just fine and I moved it over ever so slightly again to add that depth so we're just tracing back over it and fanning it out and I'm using that alpha brush and I'm actually using it dry and you see I wiped the nail before I got to this part I didn't like how this I tried it off camera with the sticky layer a dispersion layer and I didn't like how it blended out so I wanted to make sure I wiped it off so I didn't have that tacky layer wiped it off with alcohol and I felt like it allowed me to complete this step better with a better result okay so yeah I would recommend but sometimes depending on what I'm doing sometimes I like the tacky layer and what it can do for me so you know depending on what you're doing you may find another way to do this again this doesn't have to be in this exact order this is what my mind said would be the best way to do it and that's the way I did it you may feel a different way about it in a different way to achieve this look by all means do it okay I mean art is just inspiration so I took blossom blossoming gel and there's many and plenty out there and I'm tracing over my main veins I'm adding just some little extra lines and I actually wasn't sure if I wanted to add this at first I was just kind of doing it to see how I felt was this a necessary step did this add to the nail did it take away from it and I ended up liking it and I added some bold spots of the white in some areas and um the longer you let um because you want to work right on top of the blossom gel while it's wet that's how it works the longer you let it sit the more it'll work and disperse color out so in some areas I added little splotches of white just for it to disperse a little bit and create more character so just know the longer you let the color sit and blossom gel the more it'll disperse so you may want it to not disperse so much and go ahead and cure it when you cure it locks it in so if it's too dispersed you may want to go back over it or wipe it off and do it again and cure it in a little bit of a quicker time if you're not dispersed enough let it sit a little more before you cure it so this is what I had so far and I just wanted to compare it with the other hand because I hadn't done it yet just to see if I liked it like I said I wasn't even sure if I liked it and so I compared it and I decided that I liked it so I kept it yeah that was that story so I went ahead and did the other hand of course and now I am encapsulating my design I felt like I had it where I wanted it we were many hours in many layers in you guys seen all the layers it wasn't I didn't take out any layer except very early on I tried one of those iridescent opalescent type colors from the gel bottle ink I put it on there I left it but you couldn't even really tell like I said I decided to ditch that I didn't want that for some reason um but I did want to try some future ones with it those I'm what it's called like the inclusions or whatever so I do want to try it but I decided just to leave it out in this set I liked how it looked and feel I wanted it to look super realistic so I am encapsulating the nail with builder gel I'm using that gel from the gel bottle ink the gel pot is clear builder gel and I am putting on a slip layer I'm polishing the slip layer on the nail and while it's wet picking up a bigger bead of gel and just walking it down the nail so you see me I'm applying a slip layer and this kind of tells the big the bigger bead of gel where to go what to do who's cool who isn't that's really what it's for it's I've tried to describe it so many ways a lot of y'all say it makes sense it just helps you know like I said it just helps the first layer that slip layer tells the big layer you know where the party's at and it helps it from going into areas it doesn't need to go and it helps it move easier it's a slip layer helps it slip down the nail easier better so I shaped the nail off of camera I know I know I'm sorry I generally always do as mentioned many times before it's hard to capture on camera because I turn my client's hand around the other way with like the back of their hand facing towards me and their nails pointing to the sky that's how I file and shape the nails it's hard to capture so I'm using a ceramic smooth top bit instead of fine grit I don't even know where I got this from to be very honest I don't think it was from Atwood I don't think they even sell them so I'm sorry but you can get them you can get them on so many different places and this is where I said okay so early on I'm gonna tell you this early on I was telling my mom you know what do you want gold because I thought the green would go beautiful with gold but she doesn't really like gold but she was like you know what if it's if it's gonna make the look that you're going for she's so sweet if it's gonna you know bring your vision to life essentially she's like let's go ahead and do it and I told her you know it wouldn't be much even if I did do it just a little accent and so she asked me a couple times she's like so have you decided about the gold I was like yeah I don't know if I want to do it we'll see and so I was like you know what's actually gonna because I realized at some point like man I didn't regain my shape but I told y'all early on I didn't regain my shape so when I go into filing shape there's a chance that I might file off some of the design off the edge because I told her that if I added the gold like I said it'd be a small amount and I only wanted to do the rim around the nail nothing through the center I didn't want to take away from any of the detail the design through the center of the nail it would just be the very edge and outline so with that being said because I filed a little my little bit of my design off on some of the edges of the nails that was basically the deciding factor in me doing the gold so I used the cross cut bit after I used that smooth top bit just to make the cuticle area more flush and I use that in place of using a hand buffer I do not like hand buffers not for what traditionally people use hand buffers for so yeah I use a cross cut bit for that and then I set off the nail and we're here so I use protein bond from young nails and I use that one it kind of adds a where I can see the nail because I'm like man when and where did I file off the design and then it's tacky and sometimes foil will stick to it it will because it leaves a tacky layer it was not it was frustrating me wasn't worth it so I'm using a foil gel and daily charm makes a great foil gel and so do many other brands so that's what I'm using and you'll see the areas like I said where the design is missing just on the very very edges inside so I use that foil gel and I go over it cure it in the light the time that it needs to and I'm using this gold leaf and honestly I couldn't tell you where this gold leaf came from but you could probably I'll see if I can put on my Amazon store down below but there's many and plenty of places you can get this from as well it's just a gold leaf it's not foil I know I use foil gel but it provides the tackiness that I was looking for to get this on here and as stated I'm just going at the very edge and you'll see that this kind of goes and gets everywhere I'm going to remove it because I was dead serious you might think oh it was cute to add a little gold on the center right there or something that's fine look I worked too hard to get all these little fine lines and stuff I was not covering up any of them okay okay yeah it could be cute that's fine it wasn't not me and my little lines I drew nope not at all okay okay so I'm just adding this gold leaf again and then there's some nails that didn't have the design filed off but I just wanted to make it consistent and just add a little bit of gold to each nail so at this point I'm filing off any access access excess and I'm filing off any gold leaf that's on the front or the surface of my nail that's in that open space or that went too far out again y'all was serious you're not fixing it nope so I'm just removing any little gold leafies and I'm filing it off if it's like if it went too far on the surface if that makes sense now I'm also filing off the free edge of the nail just so I'm able to top coat easier and I want to tell you I don't think I showed it but I did top coat twice I top coated regain my shape back and top coat again just to make sure that gold leaf is sealed in and smooth it had a little texture to it so I top coated if there was texture I kind of buffed it a little bit with a file to smooth it out and I top coated again I'm just making sure that's nice and sealed in and I don't I want to be cautious of my free edge I don't want to lose my shape so please keep the top coat thin and friendly at the free edge we do want to make sure it's there we want to cap that goal to make sure it lasts but we don't want to lose our beautiful beautiful shape and I go in with a cuticle like cleaner tool right yeah right there you'll see me I'm removing any of the foil leaf that kind of went wild and getting that off and as mentioned I don't think I show it but off camera once this is cured I file it and that free I do file the free edge just a little bit to regain my shape I want this to look nice and clean and like a stone and I really think y'all again not to toot my own horn but these almost kind of freak me out in a weird way how kind of realistic they are or is it just me and it's not because I did them okay y'all look at them right okay thumbs up right now thumbs up then leave a rose or if you want to see rose quartz done like in the more realistic style or tell me any other recommendations I want to keep this going and just challenge myself to recreate different stones and they don't have to be like this vibe like different kind of textures and 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