Hey everyone, Jenny here from The Dot Couture! When I first started with nails and nail art, I remember googling techniques that I could do that didn’t seem too overwhelming or require me to have an arsenal of expensive tools, not to mention a spare 10 hours or so.
I stumbled upon something called Nimbus Nails. I believe their origin comes from the blogger The Nailasaurus, but this technique is very popular among nail artists. I decided I would give them a go, and lo and behold, success!!! I’ve done and enjoyed this technique many times, so I’ve created a little tutorial for you guys today.
Supplies Needed:
- Acetone
- Cotton Swabs
- A little dappen dish (for the acetone, but you can also use the cap of the bottle)
- A palette of some sort (I used a coffee lid)
- Nail polish (it’s best to use a few shades in the same colour family but they don’t have to be)
How To:
Paint your nails a base of white polish (white polish is pretty much the base of all nail art – it really makes colours pop on the nail). Let dry thoroughly.
Pick your colour palette.
Pour out some acetone into the dish or cap.
Add a few drops of your first colour of nail polish onto your palette. Dip your cotton swab in the acetone until it’s soaked.
Mix the acetone in with the polish until you get a nice watery kind of consistency.
Dab the cotton swab with the diluted polish directly onto your nail, making random polka dots. I started with the lightest colour here.
Allow them to dry and then repeat with each subsequent colour. Make sure you are overlapping the polka dots so you get a sort of blended/ring look.
Your palette will probably look something like this when you’re done!
Add a quick-dry top coat and you’re done. And here is the finished product!!!
Here it is in another colour family:
Beautiful right?
How about some neon nimbus nails!
And finally, to show you how beautiful a base nimbus nails can be for other nail art, I stamped over one of the manis.
I hope you give this technique a try, I really enjoy it for it’s simplicity (if you haven’t noticed, I’m a keep it simple sort of gal!)
You can find me and my nails on Instagram at @thedotcouture – I hope to see you there! Until next time, happy painting!!!!
This is perfect, cute and not so time consuming
Neon ones are cute
Cute!
Seem difficult to do.
So pretty
❤️❤️❤️
I love this!
Cute
They are ALL SO CUTE! I just can’t pick a favourite!!
So easy and beautiful, I love them all!!!!
So pretty!
Pretty!!!
Super easy!
Perfect!
Love this
Seeing this step by step became easier to understand.
Thanks you guys!
🙂
Beautiful!!!
I totally LOVE!
love it
I love the neon one!!!!
They’re so cool! Excited to try it!
I love this idea and those colors are nice.
I can’t wait to try these!
So cool
Wow!!
So pretty!
Most definitely can do this!
This is so cute!
amazing!
Cute for summer !!
very cute
super fun esp with the art over lay 🙂
That’s neat!
sweet
I really want to try some of them 🙂 of course it will be the easy one 🙂 haha
This is so cute and super easy! I’m totally going to try it out.
I LOVE this! Gonna give it a try
I love them all
I have gotten better at doing my nails so now I can hopefully find time when I can try this!
I so want to try this!
super cute!
Wow, definitly going to give this a try!
Beautiful art! ❤️
I really like the last one. Definitely going to give it a try!
I like this one a lot
Love the bright colors mixed
It’s so pretty!
CUTE !!!!!
Cute
These are all so pretty!
That’s cool
They look so easy and pretty!
Very cool!
Omg love this!!!
These are so cute!
Love it!
OMG love this!!!
That’s a cool technique and it creates a cool outcome!!!
So nice!
those are cute
this was a really good tutorial
This looks hard
Wow!
this is to amazing
This is so cool
nice!
Looks amazing, quick and simple designs :3
They’re all so cute!
So cool
i just did this for school, supa cute!!
Looks amazing ????
there so cool i love them
So cute! 🙂
Cool 🙂
Nice! I wish I could stop my nails from breaking all the time.
wow so cool
Beautiful nails 🙂
Blue is my fave color ~~
omg so pretty especially the last two.????
thanks for a great article. i love to paint my nails
Great for the spring when you can use bright colors.
So pretty????
So cute!
How pretty!
Love this! I’m going to try this soon!
So cute and simple! I’m definitely going to give that a try!
So pretty!
The kind of nail art that I love:easy and beautiful
Cool!
All of them are cool
I love the neon ones!
I love these!!
I wish I was that talented
Woow looks amazing
so cute!
wow they r sooo pretty
I love cute nail designs.
Wow, so cool! I’ll try it|
I wish I could do nail art like this!????
Super cute!!! Super simple and easy!
so cute!!!
Love this!
Love this
Can’t wait to try it
So cute!! I’ll have to try these one day and show my friends!
these are super cute
i love it!
it looks kinda psychedelic!
Love this! I will try to do it 🙂
Love this!
Such an easy way to do a little something to your nails, love it!
So cool!!
I love this nail design! so chic and cool
I love diy this one gave me an idea for a party.
This is so cute! I love the colours that you used!
I don’t do my nails that often as I never know what pattern to do, but after seeing these I can’t wait to try the red/pink nails out.
OMG i do it right NOW so cute thanks
I don’t do my nails often, but I think these are so cute!
So cute!
I think nail art is an absolutely brilliant way to express your inner art and have a blast at the same time! <3
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Awesome. Really cute
Cute!
This is really cute!
Those are so pretty!
so cool. going to try this later with my daughter
I have to show this to my daughter
So excited to try!!
Love it!!!!
Neat!
So cute…
Cute! I wish I was better at nail art
this nail design is so pretty
Cool ! I love it ????????
This is so cute
They are so cute!! Can’t wait to try them on!!
Wow
Love it! ❤️
omg i love this so much xD
Cool
Amazing I wish my nails were longer so I could do that but my nails are tiny????
So pretty
Awesome
Pretty!
So so cute! ????
This is so cute I’m co glad it worked
this is so cute!!
Omg, it’s so pretty! Can’t wait to try it out. 🙂