Summer nail art tutorial: blooming French tips & hibiscus flowers

Apply a matte top coat, as this creates a great base for gel polish to adhere to. Cure. Use a striper brush to paint a French tip in a gel polish colour of your choice, and cure.

To create the first hibiscus flower petal, use a white gel polish and small dotting tool to paint three dots in an upside down ‘V’ shape.

Using a detail brush, drag each dot down into a point at the cuticle. Flash cure if you’re worried about the colour smudging.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 on either side of the first petal. Cure fully once happy with the look of the flower.

Use the white gel polish and a liner brush to paint a stem coming from the middle of the flower. Cure.

Apply blooming gel over the French tip in a thin layer. Do not cure. Take a contrasting gel polish colour of your choice and use a dotting tool to dot it in the blooming gel, not getting too close to the smile line. Once happy with how the colour has spread, cure.

Using a small dotting tool, add glitter gel polish in the centre of the hibiscus flower and at the end of its stem. Cure. Apply your chosen top coat and cure.