L to R:

Sephora by O.P.I in Queen of Everything
AVON in Coral Bikini
Sinful Colors in Hazard
Sinful Colors in Unicorn

1. Paint your base coat and then two coats of your base nail polish

2. Take your dotting tools or the backs of paintbrushes/ toothpick/whatever you have available and start from the cuticle, up.

-Swanky Mermaid