how to do spring floral nails vegan gel polishes

Hi guys! Today I'm going to show you how I made this purple nail set using press-on nails

These nails are very springy and cute. I picked up this hobby a couple of months ago and it's still very new to me making press-on nails

but I have been trying to get better. It is very hard. But I'm going to share with you what I've learned so far

Getting right into it, I'm using these gel polishes from Nail Reserve Los Angeles

These polishes are vegan, cruelty-free, and nine-free, meaning that they removed nine of the most harmful chemicals from their formulas

Some of these including formaldehyde, toluene, formaldehyde resin, and other things that you just would not want near your nails, near your mouth, near your body in general

So the first thing that I'm doing is choosing the appropriate nail size. I got this kit, I want to say off of Teemu. It's either Teemu or Amazon

But these are supposed to be like press-on nails that are kind of shorter than the average ones you would find

because I don't like a very long nail. I am just basically measuring it against each of my fingers one by one

I'm doing it to my right hand. I'm just making sure that the nail completely covers my nail bed and that the sides of my nails are not shown

Because I want it to look as real as possible. This just takes a while to find the appropriate nail size

but I basically find them for one hand and then I choose the same ones for my opposite hand

After this, I start buffing the nails out. So how I like to do this is I buff out the bottom part of the nail

that is the part that's going to lay against my finger, and I buff it out against both sides, so both the top side and the underside

And that's just because, since this is a fake nail, I want it to rest against my nail as closely as possible

and not kind of like stick out of my nail and look like really 3D and large

So I want to make the part that's going to be against the main part of my nail as thin as possible

so it looks as real as possible. So I'm just holding each of the nails and using this glass nail file to file them down

And I'm also buffing it out at the top of the nail where it has just a little part sticking out

I'm ready to start painting. So I'm using this nail stand to make it workable so that the nails actually stay on

I'm taking these transparent nail stickers and sticking them onto the fake nail and then onto the nail stand

so that as I paint, the nails won't move. I just do that to every nail on the hand that I'm doing and I stick them on, press them down very securely

And then the first thing that I'm doing is taking the purple nail polish and doing a thin purple coat

And I feel like one coat is enough. Like these polishes are opaque enough that you only need one real coat

After using this pretty purple color, I also use the matte coat on the remaining nails

And after that, I just cure this for 99 seconds. So now that the base is done, I'm using the white nail polish and this dotting tool to make five flowered petals

The way that I'm doing this is just making five dots on the nail

It's really like not that hard and also, even if it doesn't come out perfect, it's still cute from a distance

I don't really care. I just make five dots, five little points in the shape of what I think a flower would look like

And then I use the remainder paint or since it's a liquid, I just mush it up around there so that the center gets filled as well

I'm making one big flower on my pointer finger and then three mini flowers on my ring finger

After I'm done doing that, I push it back under the curing lamp and cure it for another 99 seconds

So once the white part is cured, all I'm doing now is going back in with the dotting tool

but this time the lavender nail polish that we started with and I'm just adding a center dot in all of my flowers

Just put a little dab and that's it. And it looks like a flower and no one can tell the difference

And then again, I just put that under the lamp and cure it. This is what the nails are looking like

To actually use the press-on nails and apply them to my nail, I'm buffing out my own nails using the glass nail file

I'm doing this so that my nail is grittier and makes a good surface for the fake nail to apply to

After buffing out my nails, I'm just using an alcohol wipe to make sure that they're as clean as possible

And then using a nail sticker, I measure the nail sticker out against my nail

Then I pull on the tab to take off the plastic from the top so that it's sticky

And I press the fake nail on very firmly onto my nail and I hold it there for just a couple of seconds until I can tell that it's firmly attached

And then I just repeat that with the rest of my nails. The pointer and ring finger nails should have been matte, but you can tell that they're clear right now

And that's just because as I finished painting the nails, I decided to put one final, not matte, clear layer on them

So I got rid of the mattness, which was dumb. I regret doing that. I shouldn't have done that

But it still looks very cute. And the nails, after I applied them, were super secure

I just finished applying the rest of the nails, measuring the nail stickers against my finger and making sure that it's the correct size

And then I'm done and I have these really cute lavender nails. I very much love how these came out

That's it. I'm going to leave all of the products and supplies that I used down below

If you're interested in using them. And I'll leave the specific nail colors that I used as well

And I think that's it. Bye