I have received such positive feedback on the Nail Art Design Practice Templates that I wanted to THANK YOU!! all of you for your wonderful comments and for everyone sharing these with their communities. To celebrate I created a little graphic and wanted to create a quick and easy spot where you can find all of the templates in one place.
You can use these practice templates to try different layouts, sizes, ideas, etc. before committing your design in polish. They are also great for conveying designs to clients on the spot if you are a nail technician.
There are seven different sheets – one for each of the most common nail shapes including squoval, round/oval, square, almond, sport-active, stiletto, and short-pointed. There is also an extra template for each of the seven nail shapes – one sheet featuring six full hand manicure practice templates. Enjoy!
Original Template Posts
- Nail Art Design Practice Sheet – Original post with just a “squoval” shape.
- Nail Art Design Practice Sheet – New Versions – Templates included are squoval, round/oval, square, and almond.
- Nail Art Design Practice Sheet – Bonus Versions – Templates included are sport-active, stiletto, and short-pointed.
- Nail Art Design Practice Sheet – Full Hand Versions – Six full hand manicures on each sheet for each of the seven nail shapes listed above.
Single Nail & Single Hand Versions
Click on each picture to be directed to a full sized, printable sheet or click the link to download and save a PDF version to your computer.
| Sport/Active Template | Round/Oval Template | Square Template |
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| Sport/Active PDF | Round/Oval PDF | Square PDF |
| Pointed Template | Almond Template | Stiletto/Claw Template |
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| Pointed PDF | Almond PDF | Stiletto/Claw PDF |
Full Hand Versions
Click on each picture to be directed to a full sized, printable sheet or click the link to download and save a PDF version to your computer.
| Sport/Active Full Hand | Round/Oval Full Hand | Square Full Hand |
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| Sport/Active PDF | Round/Oval PDF | Square PDF |
| Pointed Full Hand | Almond Full Hand | Stiletto/Claw Full Hand |
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| Pointed PDF | Almond PDF | Stiletto/Claw PDF |
Want to Share?
Thank you for taking the time to share these templates with your community – I really appreciate it! To make it a little easier I have created this centralized post and a few different sized graphics:
- Large Square – 640 x 640 pixels. Posting or Instagram sized.
- Medium Square – 480 x 480 pixels. Posting sized.
- Small Square – 250 x 250 pixels. Sidebar and blogroll sized.
- Link – https://blackcatnails.com/nail-art-design-practice-templates-sheets
Contact me if you would like another size or dimension. Thanks for reading!
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THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
Your welcome!
Thank you! That is brilliant! I love you!
Hehe, glad you like them!
What a brilliant idea you have saved me hours thanks for sharing all copied now ready to play at stamping thankyou
You’re welcome Rachel! Thank you for visiting.
Muchas gracias, por las diferentes plantillas. Son muy útiles para mi ,que estoy empezando con este arte. Solamente tengo un solo inconveniente y es que no puedo descargar una sola plantilla. …intente varias veces y no puedo hacerlo.
Glad you like them and sorry you’re having trouble. I checked them and it seems to be working okay. If you want please feel free to email me which you are trying to download and I can email it to you! 😉
I have looked everywhere for this!! Thank you so much!!! A++++
You’re welcome, thank you for visiting.
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Thank you so much for sharing. Have been looking for practice templates for a very long time. Much, much, appreciated.
Glad you found these too, thanks for visiting!
You Should do templates for toe nails too
That’s a great idea!
I totally love that you made these, I use them for drawing out designs for my clients but can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make one for ballerina/coffin shape
Thank you for sharing these sheets. Just starting to learn nail art and these sheets are just the thing for me to practice.
Greets from Holland
Hello Suus! I’m glad you found these helpful – I hope you find painting as relaxing as I do!
Hi there,
I’ve been looking everywhere for a toenail sized template. Could you post one? Thanks
me too! I would love a pedicure template — especially now that it’s getting warm enough to wear sandals and flipflops again. I need a good way to plan out my pedi designs!
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hello sorry to bother you but I just noticed the square full hand pdf is the same as the single finger pdf I thought I would make you aware of this in case you were not, I also shared this on facebook I love these templates and I use them often.
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omg this is so amazing i am going to make one for my friend seeing as she doesn’t have a silicone mat and i might do one for me
Hello, last night my significant other and I was talking as NAILS is always the center of discussion. So he insisted on finding a nail sketchbook and happened to GOOGLE upon your website. This is the most EXCITING day ever, waking up to spend money on acrylic paint to start being creative. You are a BLESSING and I am FOREVER GRATEFUL!!!
Love Precious~ Prissy Creations
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Hi, I know I’m very late with my comment but
thank you SO much for this 🙂 My nail shape changes all the time and these are so helpful!
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Please consider making a template of coffin-ballerina nail shapes. thank you so much for providing us w such a time saver!!