Striped Nail Tutorial

Black & white is on trend! Wear it on your nails :)

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DIY Art Deco Nails

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DIY Daisy Nails

It's been a while since I've done a nail tutorial! 

Expect to see more because I purchased a tripod :)
Enjoy!

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DIY Sparkly New Year's Nails

  A DIY tutorial for an awesome sparkly nail design! Happy 2013!

Difficulty: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

Supplies:

  + a light neutral nail polish

  + 3 fun nail polish colors

  + thin paintbrush 

  + glitter polish

  + top coat

 Paint nails with the light neutral color. OATMEAL :: Love & Beauty

 Using the thin brush, draw small strokes on the nail, but not all the way, using your first color. Let dry. I NEED A REFRESH-MINT :: Wet & Wild

 Repeat the previous step with another bright color. Uneven and quick strokes look/work best. Let dry. MAGENTA :: Love & Beauty

 Repeat with last color. Let dry!!! VERTIGO :: Chanel

 If you're already frustrated, you can stop here & add a top coat.

But... I added some glitter, let that dry, then sealed it off with a topcoat. SILVER GLITTER :: LA Colors

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DIY Halloween Nails

Cute spider web nail art perfect for medium to long nails.
Difficulty: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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Metallic Stripe Manicure

How to paint a Fall/Winter 2012- inspired Metallic Stripe Manicure
Difficulty: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
You'll need:

• Gem-tone colored Nail polish (Sapphire blue, deep red, amethyst purple...)
• Silver or gold striper (nail art brush/pen) 
• Clear top coat

      1) Paint your nails the gem- tone color

      2) Take your metallic striper (inexpensive ones from Sinful Colors)

      3) Create one diagonal stripe

      4) Create a parallel stripe to the other stripe

      5) Add a clear top coat to protect the design! 

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DIY Tribal Nails

  Easy tribal or aztec nail art!
Difficulty: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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DIY Watermelon Nails

 Today with me is my really awesome friend ALEX! She is fashioning a very popular nail design for the summer... WATERMELON NAILS!

Difficulty: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

You will need:

• pink, red or coral nail polish
• green polish
• black nail art pen or black nail art striper
• clear top coat
• tape or paper reinforcements for french tips

Paint your nails pink, coral, or red.

Let them dry a LONG time and tape your nails for a french manicure. I'm using  paper reinforcements cut in half.

Paint green polish above the sticker to make the watermelon rinds.

Let those dry for a while as well. Then peel off the stickers or tape.

Use a black nail art pen or nail art brush to make the black seeds on the pink part of the nail.

Add a clear top coat and you're done :)

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DIY Fourth of July Nail Art

Learn a simple technique to paint your nails for Independence Day!
Difficulty: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

You will need:

• red, white and blue nail polishes
• clear top coat
• scotch tape
• black nail art pen/brush

Paint your nails red, white, and blue in an alternating pattern.

I'm not the best at painting nails :D Make sure you let them dry properly.

Use a black nail art pen to write USA or July. But I put USA so it will work for the 2012 Olympics. Let the ink dry and paint a clear top coat.

Paint a color of nail polish (that is not the color on your thumb nail) onto the non-sticky side of the scotch tape.  Let dry, paint a top coat, and let that dry.

Cut the tape off and try to create a star. Take your time because this is frustrating!

Stick on a dry thumb nail and finish it off with a top coat.

Make sure each nail has a top coat. I hope you liked this easy Independence day/Olympics (USA) nail art!!!

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May Nail Tutorial: Sunflower design

 Here is another simple & cute nail tutorial- if you want to see more, head to my "Tutorials" page and scroll down to the nail art section.

Level: ●●○○

Supplies:

• 3 colors of nail polish: 1) one color of your choice for the base 2) yellow for the flower petals 3) brown or green for the inner dot of the flower
• clear polish top coat
•  toothpick and nail dotter, find out more about nail dotters here. 
• a small scrap piece of cardboard or plastic or tinfoil for a nail polish palette 

For the base, I'm using "Blazed" by Wet n' Wild. I bought it on vacation for only $1.50 at a cute little store in Avalon, Catalina Island. Make sure it dries before you start the flower. 

 (Sorry I'm using a bottle cap & not my nail for a few steps.) Make a small glob of nail polish on your palette- see above for details, and dip your nail dotter into the glob. (Lightning by Sally Hansen Insta- Dri) 

Start with an electrical outlet cover and make sure you have a screw. 

For the petals: Using the nail dotter, create a dot on your nail. Using a toothpick, start in the center of the dot and pull upwards. It should look like a teardrop.  

Create another dot next to the petal you just completed and repeat the motion with the toothpick to shape the dot into a teardrop.

Repeat to make a total of 5-7 petals. Let dry.

Make a small glob of brown or green on the palette and dip the nail dotter once you have cleaned the other polish off of it. (Espresso by Revlon Top Speed)

Make a big dot in the middle of the flower. You can stop here, but I used the toothpick to create more petals. 

With the toothpick dipped in the petal color, make short strokes starting from the center dot. Add a coat or two of clear top coat.  

That's all there is to it! Please comment if you have any questions & pleeease follow my blog! I would love to see a pic of your fave nail art as well :)

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DIY Polka Dot Nails

This tutorial is similar to the Dice Nails tut. See my tutorials page for more info.
Level: ●●○○
Supplies: 

• 2 colors of nail polish
• clear polish
• nail dotter (stick a sewing pin into the eraser of a pencil)

Gather supplies (clear polish not shown)

Paint every other nail one color.

Paint the rest your other color. ?

With your nail dotter, paint dots. Nice pic, huh? :D

Egg dyeing tip: dye the egg a light color, place it on a paper towel and drizzle drops of dye on it.

Mad Hatter :)

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DIY Valentine nails!

:: How to make little hearts on your nails with a dotting tool :: 

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DIY New Years Nails

This tutorial is for some fun New Year/holiday nails....

Level: ●●●○

Supplies:

• nail polish
• glitter polish
• clear polish
• medical tape cut into very tiny strips

Cut medical tape into thin strips. Stick 2 strips on you nail. Make sure you press the strips down really hard or else it won't turn out.

Ahhh- bad picture. Take your polish and sweep across nail, trying not to get too much on the tape.

Bad pic- again... When dry, remove tape. Remove any mistakes or excess polish with Q-tip & polish remover.

Apply glitter polish to nail.

Top with a clear top coat and BAM! amazing New year nails.... Happy New Year!!! :)

 

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DIY glitter french tip nails

Want to know how to paint some cute, easy nails?

Level: ●○○○

Supplies: 

• sparkly nail polish - got mine @ Styles For Less for $1.99
• clear top coat
• tape

Tape off your nails for a french manicure. Don't know how? Click here.

Paint the glitter polish right over the tape and onto your nail. Be careful, you don't want to paint below the tape.

Once dry, peel off tape and top with a few layers of a clear top coat.

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DIY Dice nail art

Want to know how to paint some cute, easy nails?
Level: ●●○○

Supplies: 

• white nail polish
• black nail polish
• small piece of cardboard
• nail dotting tool- I made mine using this tutorial

  

Paint your nail white. Dab some black polish on the piece of cardboard.

Dip the dotting tool into the black polish and draw dots onto your nails.

Draw dots on each finger and apply a clear coat.

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