Beat the Heat with Frosty Ice Cream Nail Art Designs
Summer is scorching hot. Wouldn’t it be nice to refresh yourself with a delicious sundae? This season let’s beat the heat with ice cream nail art designs. From sugar cones to melt-in-your-mouth popsicles, these frosty manicures will make your fingers look as tempting as a chilled treat on a sweltering day.
Ice Cream Nail Art Designs
Double-Dip
The sun is blazing but these ice cream nails will remind you to stay cool. Since scoops of mint and bubblegum will melt quickly in the heat, go take a break in an air-conditioned space and savor the relief!
If you’d like a similar look, you don’t need to be an acrylics expert. Start with soft gel tips and add charms, stickers, and confetti. If you feel adventurous, play with poly gel. It’s ideal for sculpting nail art and extensions because it’s odorless and won’t harden until you cure it. Then top off your design with colors that match your favorite flavors. We found strawberry, mint, and butterscotch in the Pastel Flow Collection.
LDS Soft Gel Nail Tips
Lavis Poly Gel
LX3 Pastel Flow Collection
I’ll Have One of Everything
Can’t pick a favorite? This ice cream nail art design features several of the tastiest frozen desserts. It reminds us of happy summer vacation days. Plus, it’s easy to do. Start with a sheer base that matches your skin tone. We found a perfect fit in the Color Craze Collection. Then paint or use nail stickers to share your preferred ice cream options.
Weirdly, this design also reminded us of some essential advice. The heat can really get to a person, so it’s wise to have more than one way to cool off. Popsicles and cold drinks are helpful, but you might need a little more help on the hottest days. The Mickey Mouse bar reminded us how nice it is to cool off at a water park, too.
LDS Color Craze Collection - Pink
Nail Art
With Sprinkles
You know what happens to ice cream on a summer day. We also feel like we’re melting! This whimsical design inspires us to have fun painting our nails with cool themes this summer. And while we’re on the topic of cool, do you know the signs when someone is experiencing heat stress?
First, they will be sweating a lot and feel extra tired and thirsty. They might have muscle cramps, a headache, and feel nauseated. If you check their heartbeat, it will be faster than it should be for their level of activity.
Then, the overheated person may develop pale, clammy skin, and even goosebumps, and you’ll know things are getting worse. Take them to a cool place right away. They may faint if you don’t.
The last stage of heat stress is called heat stroke, and it can be fatal. A person with a high body temperature and hot skin who has stopped sweating is at severe risk. They might be confused and have a seizure or fall unconscious. Get them medical attention at once.
We wish everyone knew these signs because they save lives when people pay attention to them. If you had actual ice cream on hand, you could help cool the person down. Place the cold stuff under their arms, around their neck, and between their legs. It sounds kind of personal to be getting into their space like that but those are where the big arteries are. Those spots will cool them off quickly (1).
Lavis Nude Collection
Line Art Gel
Melted Mint
There’s no cone in sight, but these drips still make us long for chocolate chip mint ice cream. They also kind of make us thirsty!
It’s easier than you think to make a nifty French mint manicure like this. You’ll need a sheer color and a matte finish for the base to make those glossy drops stand out. After that, create the texture with embossing gel or hard gel and cure it. Use a precision brush or dotting pen to add the chocolate speckles. Finally, thin a mint green polish with clear top coat and add the wash of color.
LDS 001 Breakfast At Tiffany's - LDS Gel Polish
Emboss Gel - Clear
On a Stick
These colorful ice cream treats are shaped just right to create the illusion that they’re about to pop off the fingertips. We spent too much time guessing what flavors they might be! Then someone wondered why popsicles with coatings melt slower than regular scoops on a cone. And that turned into a whole discussion of how sunscreen does the same thing. Sunblock filters most of the UV rays to keep them from getting inside your skin so it can potentially keep you cooler on a summery day (2).
3D Cones
An artist put serious time into creating these exquisitely detailed ice cream cones. They good enough to eat with a realistic waffle pattern and ‘melting’ scoops adorned with cherries and sprinkles. The manicure is even more fun with the holographic pastel encapsulated nails alongside.
Neapolitan Swirls
Neapolitan ice cream is a challenge because everyone has a favorite flavor they want to eat first. Thankfully, it’s still pretty tasty when the strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla melt together. That mix is what we see in these swirly matte nails with butterflies. It’s an ice cream-inspired dream.
LAVIS Matte Top Gel
Things You Didn’t Know about Ice Cream
Here are surprising scoops from history about our favorite frosty dessert. In 1500s India, the Mughal emperors ate kulfi made from frozen condensed milk shaped in molds. Around the same time in Europe, Italians were also catching on to the idea of frozen sweets. These early iced treats existed because someone in the Arab world had discovered a secret that people still use today to make ice cream at home.
When ice is mixed with salt, it starts a reaction that releases heat. This mixture becomes much colder than ice alone, creating a super-chilled liquid. When this cold mixture surrounds a liquid flavor mix, it causes small ice crystals to form. By stirring the mix often, it prevents big ice crystals from growing, which helps create a smooth and creamy ice cream that’s easy to scoop.
Fast-forward to the 1700s when George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were indulging in ice cream, too. Jefferson liked this dessert so much he kept the recipe for French vanilla.
In the late 1800s, a pharmacist in Philadelphia invented the ice cream soda. Soon after that, someone came up with ice cream sundaes probably because of a strange law. For a while, it was forbidden to sell soda on Sunday, so “sundaes” took the place of ice cream soda.
Now when you search for ice cream nail designs, you’ll see lots with cones thanks to their invention around the turn of the 20th century. It may have taken 500 years, but it finally happened. And now you can have quite the conversation about the history behind your ice cream nail art!
Conclusion
We hope you have lots of fun with ice cream nails! We wish you a happy and healthy summer with plenty of cool moments to beat the heat.
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Sources:
1. https://www.cdc.gov/extreme-heat/signs-symptoms/?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/warning.html
2. https://www.healthday.com/health-news/cancer/sunscreen-s-secret-bonus-it-could-help-keep-you-cool-744798.html
3. https://www.history.com/news/where-do-ice-cream-sorbet-frozen-desserts-come-from
