Start by painting your nails in the base colour. I went for a pastel pink to fit in with the spring theme. I absolutely love Nails Inc varnishes, and this one is Nails Inc Elizabeth Street. I did need 2 coats to completley cover my nails (with it being so light I think) but it goes on so easily and has a really nice finish to it.
Then, using a light green create the stalks of your bouquet, and a darker green to create texture. I used a striping brush to do both. Make sure it's loaded with quite a lot of the nail varnish to avoid it streaking. Use a dotting tool to create the tops of your flowers. I used a pale yellow colour, but this would work with any colour - dark pink, lilac, red, blue...it's up to you. Again using the striper, use a different colour to create the shapes and highlights of the flowers. I used a dark orange to go with the yellow, but you could try using a different shade of the same colour to do this (for exaple lilac flowers with purple highlights) to create a similar effect. Finally, tie your bouquet up with a bow. I used a dark pink but you could use any colour you like.
And your bouquet is complete! I just did this design on my ring finger of both hands and left the other nails plain pink, but if you wanted, you could just do a single flower on the rest of your other fingers by using the dotting tool to create the flower, a striper to create the details with the darker colour and to put a small leaf on either side of the flower. Let me know which colour combinations you've tried!
Colours used, from left to right:
Nails Inc - Elizabeth Street
Barry M - Spring Green
Barry M - Gelly Hi-Shine - Watermelon
Marks & Spencer - from a set of 4 mini pastel colours
Leighton Denny - I Love Juicy
No 7 - Perky
