Hi, I'm Alisha Rimando and welcome to Back to Basics.
In this episode we're going to take all those little teeny, tiny beads that you've been creating into all those little petals and I'm going to show you how to lay them out and make a perfect flower.
I'm even going to show you how to do that hibiscus flower that I love.
It's just laying the petals out a little bit differently in different sizes, but you're going to love that too.
So now that you have the consistency down with all your tiny beads, we get to put all those together.
We're going to make a five petal flower.
We're going to connect flowers.
We're even going to learn how to make leaves, so we can make a whole floral design.
So grab all your stuff and let's get Back to Basics.
When we're talking about composition for the nail and we're talking about how to lay your petals down, I always like to think of things like a clock or a circle.
So all flowers basically create a circle in the end.
So I start with a circle and in my mind, I'm deciding where I want to put that on my nail.
So maybe over here, so it's going to take up this space over here.
So this flower is going to be a circle and I always imagine the center of the flower.
So what you want to do when you're laying your petals.as you put that bead down and you start to spread it out, and you create this circle.
You pressed the center of your brush towards the center of your flower, you leaned back and it opened up this petal to create this shape.
So this is the shape that we've created and you saw before, we created this shape and you know, maybe this was shaded a little bit, but that's your first petal.
So one thing you want to think about.
I start with the 5-petal flower because it really helps you to determine how you're going to lay those petals out, because believe it or not getting 5 petals in a flower is pretty difficult to do when you first start.
So the first thing I like to do is cut this circle in half and I figure if I can get three petals on one side of the circle.
I can definitely get two on the other side.
So I'm going to create this first petal and that's going to be my starting point and then I'm going to try to do 2 more petals on this side.
One on each side of that one, and that's going to allow me to have half of the space to create my other 2 petals.
So, the biggest problem that people have when they start creating flowers, is they start putting the petals down and all of a sudden you have a flower that has 4 petals and you've got a 4 leafed clover instead of an actual flower, because you don't have the space.
So I always like to divide that in half, get your first petal down, and this is all in your mind, you know, as you're laying it out.
put one petal here your first, your second petal to the right, your third petal to the left and you definitely have room for petal number 4 and 5.
Now, this is the same whatever type of flower you want to do.
So, let's just say we're going do a daisy.
So you're thinking about the center again.
Remember leave that open space in the center for whatever it is that you want to add later.
Maybe it's a little bead of liquid & powder.
Maybe you're going to put a stone there or some little bullion beads, but let's do like more like a daisy.
So we put our our bead down on this and we start drag it back into more firm.
we're not pressing it down.
We're just leaving it up.
So again, divide this in half.
You want to do 3 on one side? Right, and then you have plenty of room to do 3on the other, and then you've got a 6-petaled flower.
So you want to always think, okay do the math in your head, divide it how many petals am I planning on putting on there, and that's going to give you where you're going to lay everything out.
Then you start changing up your flowers.
So let's just say.
one of my favorite ones to do, is a hibiscus.
So again, I start with this whole idea of a circle and the center of the flower, but with the hibiscus the center kind of takes over, so I'm going to pretend to make my hibiscus corner here.
I start with that first petal.
So I'm gonna follow that around and the one thing about adding petals to flowers that really makes it beautiful and unique, I think with 3D art, is when you start watching the lines of your petals.
So when you're laying these in see how they laid right up next to each other and they have a little bit of a line and a little bit of a space throughout the same thing happens when you start doing like roses and hibiscus.
So this is petal number one the second petal.
I'm going to kind of put my bead here and I'm going to press it out to where it follows that line.
And comes around.
So now I've got this kind of shading that's coming out here and I'm following the circle right around and then I'm gonna go with the number two and again following that circle around.
to create number three and then again keep that Circle.
Number four and then again and see how the petals kind of get smaller because we're kind of the perspective.
Gives it a little bit more 3d effect.
And then you're gonna put your Your Center there.
So a lot of times I start my hibiscus with actually putting the the stem in first and that way I can kind of work that first petal around it.
So if you kind of think about it.
Again, let's look at a rose.
If you start doing a rose, you're going to do the same thing, you know kind of think of of this circle, right? So you start with a rose petal and then you kind of work your way around.
I like to stack my roses and I'm going to show you how to do that as well.
But you start putting your petals around and then you start stacking the next set of petals and the next set of petals right on top overlapping but eventually You end up with again that circular shape.
So remembering when you're laying those petals down when you're laying that bead down and you're opening up to create that pedal remember that that outside shape you want to keep it in a circle.
So even if it's not shaped like this, even if it's shaped like this. You're still keeping everything? In that circular shape leaving.
the center of the flower Then when we start to add in and we start to add on to this so we want to do a flower then we want to add some leaves.
The best thing to do is to go in between our petals.
So we want to add some leaves to this.
We're gonna go in between you want to add two leaves to that.
You're going to go in between this petal and this Leaf right? So now you have If you want to add another flower in addition to this, you're going to create the center of the flower between these two petals and then you're going to go one.
Two three and here's your center of your flower.
Then you want to add a leaf to that.
You're going to go in between you're going to go in between.
So anytime you're laying out and I mean you can build this forever and go on and on and on and start another center of the flower and do four petals if you want to and then a leaf here and you just keep building on and on but it all stems.
from going in between the start of your petal.
So always remember where the center of your flower is always remember where the outside of your flowers so, you know how far you want to open up the pedal and then keep an eye on those little cracks? That create all the detail and all the interest and give you the perspective of that 3D design.
So now that we've seen exactly how to create our beads.
We've practiced making our beads.
They're all the same size and shape and they're nice little pretty pearls and now we've already talked about composition how to lay out our flowers.
Let's try to make a flower and I like to start on, you know, again just using our practice pad and the reason why is because laying out those flowers and getting those beads perfectly the right size it's harder than it looks.
so we don't want to make any like hair barrettes or belt buckles.
We really want to make these teeny tiny little flowers that fit on the size of a nails.
So it's actually really hard the the composition doesn't seem near as hard as it is to make this guy so so small, so we're gonna place that first one down and again the point the tip of the brush towards the center of your flower.
Remember to keep in mind where that Center is and then you're just gonna lean your brush back.
Okay, don't be so specific on how that pedal turns out.
Let it just be who he is and we're gonna dip in again.
We're going to wipe out.
Pick up our bead.
Try to get it the same size.
At the excess liquid place it down.
And remember we're thinking about half of that Circle.
We want to make three petals on that side.
So we're gonna turn and angle and lean back.
You can see that that bead will still move.
even after a little bit of time so you can kind of shape that the way you want and again another little bead right off the excess place it right on this side.
And again half of that Circle.
We want to keep those three on half that Circle we want to put the tip of the brush towards the center of the flower.
and lean back if you feel like you're flowers getting a little big you can kind of Kick the edge in there to get the shade because remember we're trying to make that around circle on the outside.
So keep an eye on the shape of the outside.
And then we're going for petal.
Number four.
We're still doing good.
We haven't closed it into a four leaf clover yet.
So we're going to place that one right here.
And tip of the brush towards the center of the flower.
And lean back and isn't that funny that pretty much every time? You put that fourth Petal on there's really only room for one more.
So we're gonna finish it out with our five petal flower.
That one last little bead on there place it down.
Right in that spot and remember to give that guy a little bit of room because a lot of times we place those when we start putting this together and creating a flower.
We'll put that bead really close to the center and he doesn't have any room to move.
So let's put it right in the center of the space where we want it to go.
Tip of the brush towards the center of the flower.
and lean back So nothing's perfect in nature.
You don't want to have these two perfect and you don't want to spend a ton of time on this because this is supposed to be quick nail art that you can actually make money at in the salon if it takes you 45 minutes to do this, you're not making any money. So we don't want to take all of our time up.
We just want to do something really simple.
You can put a little bead of product in there and I like to stack it when I'm doing something like that so that it stays nice and high gives you a little bit of difference.
Just makes it a little bit more interesting or if you wanted to put a stone in there or some little bullion beads or a little bit of glitter.
That's kind of fun, too. So again when we were talking about composition, maybe you want to add another flower to this.
Or a leaf.
So we're just gonna add another petal.
And where does it go? The center of the flower goes right in the center of two petals? So I'm going to put that over to one side.
And the point of the brush towards the center of the flower and lean back.
and again that was a little bit big.
So again just kind of drag a little bit of that off.
There's no rules in this you just want those beads to be about the same size.
and in fact on this Connection flower you may even want this one to be a little bit smaller.
So however you want to do that.
But I like to kind of remember that half of that.
Is what we're dealing with we only get half of the circle here.
So I'm going to put that bead.
Over here and create that second petal.
Direction and that leaves me and that space to put my last little petal right here.
Now I love working with just white when you're first starting out doing all of the 3D stuff because it keeps consistency.
You know, you're picking up the same amount of liquid.
You're picking up the same kind of powder because as soon as you put pigment in a powder boy, does it start acting different.
So if you're picking up green or you're picking up yellow you're picking up pink depending upon how they formulated those colors all that's gonna feel a lot different.
It's gonna stand up different.
It's gonna behave differently.
So being consistent using one color kind of figuring out your composition to everything you're doing and working on that when you first start is really the best way to to gain some great consistency, and then you can move into You know adding color later.
And you know what if this doesn't look like it's connecting very nice.
You can even just go like this and then it looks like you have Three flowers connecting look at that.
Really easy no matter what you do.
You can't really make a mistake doing this and if we want to add a little bit of a leaf the same thing we're just gonna go in between two petals and we're gonna lean back.
And sometimes I just you can make your face almost look exactly like your flower.
But what I like to do is bring my brush flat.
And I just cut that leaf right now and it brings it to really sharp point.
You get over on the end like that.
really easy That's just a quick little leaf.
What's a real fun thing to do when you're trying to try some different flowers is to go ahead and look at drawings Illustrated drawings on on the internet and then you can see kind of the way the lines go and then you can use your brush just like you're drawing a pencil.
So if you wanted to make little lines inside these leaves you could do that with your brush.
Again, I'm just flattening that out a little bit and then I'm going to cut into it and just cook it over.
You want to spread that leaf out a little bit you can do that.
So it's very soft little gentle Strokes.
If you press on it too much.
It's gonna go too flat.
So if you want to keep that 3D the less you touch it until it's more dry the higher it's going to be and I mean you could just build this on and on forever if you wanted to so I'm gonna start again and this time instead of making just one bead.
I'm gonna go ahead and flatten my brush a little bit and I'm going to grab a little line of product.
That way I can stretch it a little easier.
And with the Hibiscus, I like to have a little bit of thickness right there at the base.
So I'm just going to drop a little bit of a bead right on top of that base.
Just to give it a little bit more height.
And once I have the start of my flower.
I'm ready to go.
So again, it's as simple five petal flower. It's just laying down a little bit different.
So dip in white pick up your bead.
And that first with a hibiscus what I love about it is it has a lot of Dimension to it just because of the way that the petals are laid down in shape.
So the first one I actually have a little bit more powder and I create it a little bit bigger leaf or a little bit bigger petal and then as it as we work our way around I get it.
I do smaller petals.
So we're gonna start this first one.
Tip of the brush towards the center of the flower.
I'm going to spread that petal out.
and create our first hibiscus petal Let's take about half of that.
Place it down.
Touch it until it turns creamy.
And then I'm just gonna kind of guide this petal around the other petal.
right on top guide it around.
Until it wraps, right? And remember we're making that Circle so think about the circle as you're spreading that petal out.
And paste it right on the other side.
guide the top of that bead and then guide that to wrap around.
The other petal to create that Circle.
and then I like brush towards the center of the flower and just get that petal a little bit.
And if it gets a little too close just go right in between.
And separate it.
And again, we just create it.
We're creating a very simple five petal flower.
But just the way that you kind of lay those petals out and using these different sized beads.
really creates a whole new effect.
So again think of that as a circle.
I'm going to wrap that around.
the other one and if you need to divide that line.
And there's nothing perfect in nature.
So don't try to make it.
Perfect.
Just try to fit it and keeping those rolls of it being just a little bit thinner towards the center of your flower.
Outside of your flowers should be shaped more like a circle.
Cute little Hibiscus flower exactly the same technique except just changing up the size of those petals a little bit and a little bit of that placement.
And your cute little hibiscus.
so isn't it fun to take those petals and make them into a flower.
It's not quite as easy as you thought they were every now and then you get the four leaf clover.
It doesn't actually turn out exactly the way you want.
So again, this is all about practice practice practice.
I remember the first hibiscus.
I made it probably took me 30 minutes.
And then now it takes me just a few minutes but it's because I've done hundreds of them.
So practice making those flowers don't feel bad that it's on just a little sheet of paper because it really does help you to get that composition down because on the next episode we're gonna put those flowers on to nails.
So keep practicing and I'll see you next time on Back to Basics.