Ikat Nails Tutorial

What You Will Need:
Base and Top Coat
Turquoise, Pink, White nail polish.
Black Nail Art Pen or polish.
Toothpick.



Step 1: After applying Base coat and drying, paint nails using the turquoise.

















Step 2: Once dry, using the pink, draw small rough triangles on the nails (see picture) using the nail polish brush itself.


















Step 3: Once dry, apply smaller white triangles inside the pink triangles.


















Step 4: Whilst the white triangles are still wet (so you may want to do one nail at a time) take a toothpick and quickly push out the white edges to make fuzzy.














Step 5: Take the black nail art pen (or use black polish and toothpick) and draw a scribbled fuzzy black outline around the pink triangles.














Step 6: To finish add small black triangle blobs within the white triangles and once dry apply top coat.

There you have it! A simple Ikat pattern to your nails. You can combine different colour combinations too.



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Simple Quilted Nails Tutorial

 

What You Will Need:

• Chosen nail polish (I used Saffron Black).
• Matte Top Coat ( I use Boots No 17).
• Dental Floss Pick (See pic below).
• Dotting tool and Caviar beads (optional).

 


1. Paint your nails in chosen colour until almost dry (may need one or two coats depending on your polish).


2. Apply Matte top coat quickly to your nails (or you may prefer to do one nail at a time).








3. Leave for few minutes, then whilst nails are still soft (but not wet or tacky!) take your floss pick and is the floss like a saw to create  a criss cross effect.

4. Using the dotting tool and a small amount of clear polish or nail glue ( and I mean small or it will seep onto the matte and make parts shiny). carefully place caviar beads onto the corners of the criss cross to complete your quilted nails.






There you have it, very simple quilted nails!
Don't worry if you don't get it right straight away, it took me a couple of tries when I first started. The key to getting this right is to get the nails dried just enough to not be wet or tacky, yet not enough to be completely dry, which can take some practice and really does depend on the nail polish that it used as they all vary and have different drying times.

Nail Tutorial: Fuchsia & Polka Dot Nails

 

What you will need:

• Black nail polish (I used Saffron Black).
• Silver nail art pen ( I used Rio Silver).
• Fuchsia pink nail polish (I used Sally Hansen Fuchsia Power).
• Silver nail polish (I used Rimmel Pro Silver).
• Silver Glitter ( I used Lavat).
• White nail polish (I used La Femme).
• Striping Tape.
• Dotting tool in medium.

Step 1: Apply striping tape diagonally across nails.

Step 2: Apply fuchsia to bottom half of nail and white to the top half of the nail.

Step 3: Once dry, remove striping tape.

Step 4: Using the silver nail art pen, carefully draw a line across the nail where the striping tape has left a gap.

Step 5: Using a 'glob' of black polish, use the dotting tool to add polka dots to the white of the nails.

Step 6: Apply top coat to the nails once they are dry and you're done!

Simple nail art! I also used Silver polish and Glitter for an accent nail.

Basic Floral Nails Tutorial

 

 

 

What you will need:

• Chosen nail colour.
• 2 pinks (polishes or acrylic paints) one light pink, one dark pink.
• Green (polish or acrylic paint).
• Fine dotting tool or fine tip brush.
• Palette or clean jar lid/bottle lid.
• Base and Top Coat.

Step 1: After your base coat has dried, paint your nails chosen colour ( I used China Glaze 're-fresh mint').

Step 2: Once your nails are dry, add some pale pink spots to your nails, they don't have to be perfectly round and usually works better if they aren't.

Step 3: Using your palette or clean jar/bottle lid( I used a jar lid, as easily disposable afterwards!), add a small blob of dark pink and green (I used Sally Hansen Fuchsia and NYC in Green).

Step 4: Using the dotting tool or fine brush draw dark pink edges around your pale pink roses adding some curves in the centre too.

Step 5: Add your green leaves using the dotting tool or brush (make sure clean first) by drawing small 'v's around the edges of the roses.

Step 6:: Ta Da! Apply a top coat when dry and there you have a basic floral design on your nails!

I also used a fuchsia and silver accent nails.