Yin and yang nails

This manicure is fairly simple to do, but I think looks really effective. It's a yin and yang symbol on the ring fingers and the rest are alternatively painted black and white with a pearl at the bottom.

To begin with I painted both my ring fingers white (easier to layer darker, more opaque colours over lighter colours than the other way round). Then I painted the rest of my nails alternatively black and white. Once I'd done that I painted the black half of the yin and yang. When you paint this make sure you start at the middle and end in the middle of your nail, if you don't it can be very easy to end up with a pretty straight line or the waves in the wrong places. Make sure there is only 2 well defined curves in the wave. 

Then I moved onto my other fingers, I got my black and white pearls and placed them on the bottom of the nails which were the opposite colour to the pearl. 

Everyone has their own method of doing this, but i find the easiest way is to put a blob of clear nail varnish or if your quick you can just put it on the colour before it dries, but that can get a bit messy sometimes. Then use a dotting tool with a drop of the clear nails varnish on the end to pick up and place the pearl. You can put nail glue on the nail instead of the clear polish if you want it to last longer, but I find it messy and I never want to keep my design on long enough for it to matter.

Once that's done use a medium or large dotting tool, depending on how long your nails are to dot white polish on the black side and black polish on the white side. 

Give it a little while while to dry... You don't want your design to smear then put on you top coat. Try to make it quite thick over the pearls to hold them on better!