Tropical Manicure How To - Summer Nail Art

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Step One: Paint three bands of color on a small rectangular piece of sponge. We used the milky pink Ginger + Liz Gimme Some Suga, Ginger + Liz The Good Life, a pastel blue, ($12/each, gingerandliz.com) and Ivx Voila, a royal navy ($16, blush.com).

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Step Two: Blot sponge on each fingernail, repeating until you get desired coverage. Don't worry if you get on your skin—you'll deal with that in the next step.

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Step Three: Wrap the end of an orangewood stick with cotton—or use a Q-Tip—saturate it in nail polish remover, then clean up the excess paint around the nail bed.

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Step Four: Using a white striping brush, or any kind of small, thin brush, draw on palm trees and birds. We used Chelsea Porcelain by Londontown ($22, opensky.com).

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Hannah Morrill is a writer and editor based in Portland, Maine. She’s an avid reader, an indifferent face-washer and a sunscreen/retinol evangelist.

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