This is how a lot of nail techs/manicurist put flowers on clients. Most of the time, they’ll just do step 1, put a dot in the middle, and a few strokes of color to represent leaves. I usually did Step 1 flowers for kids. For teens & adults, I would get fancier with it.
So here is a tutorial of how I polished on flowers for past clients.
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One coat base coat. Two coats of China Glaze in Audrey.

Dot some white polish on paper. The tools I used are dotters and striping paint [not shown]. If you don’t have dotters, you can use a pointy toothpick, the ball of a ball point pen, cotton swab [cotton removed, use for bigger flowers], and whatever you can find that resembles these dotters.

With a big dotter, dot on your petals [big dotter]. Five dots look the best. Drag petals in and drag them out [pointy dotter].

Add strokes of color on centers of petals [striping paint]. Add five small black dots [pointy dotter].

More strokes of color.

This is flower is on my nails now. The other design looks better on longer nails or on the big toe.

Easy right? If you have a hard time, practice on some paper to get your dotting right.

Products Used»
Seche Vite Crystal Clear Base Coat
OPI in Audrey
Striping paint: pink, silver, silver glitter, black, shimmery gold. On my nails now: orange-y peach, yellow, green, and blue glitter.
Sally Hansen Maximum Growth Plus in Pure White Tip
Seche Vite Dry Fast Topcoat.

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