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Showing posts with label black. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 April 2014

Wah daisy nails

Step 1- Paint your nails black (or whatever colour you want).
Step 2- Use a dotting tool or nailart pen to create 5 white dots in a circle. You can just do 1 of these on each nail or a few depending on how long your nails are.
Step 3- Paint a line half way through each dot starting from the inside of the circle (does that make sense? Have a look at the picture). Use a striper to do this.
Step 4- Make a yellow circle using a dotting tool or nailart pen in the middle of the circle of white dots.

Monday, 18 November 2013

Studs and Polka Dots

I used Nails Inc Big Apple Red as my base colour for this design then used a big dotting tool and black polish to create polka dots on all my nails except my ring finger. On my ring finger after I painted my nails red and let that dry I painted over it with a thick coat of clear nail varnish then used a dotting tool with a little bit of clear polish on it to pick up and place the gold round studs only nails. I finished of with a fast drying topcoat on all my nails and made sure it was a thick coat on my ring finger to secure the studs!

Wednesday, 28 August 2013

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!