Water Marbled Nails!

Water Marbled Nails!

Rating: **

Finished Nails

Tools

 I used:

• Maybelline New York 661 Ocean Blue
• Barry M Gelly Cotton 505
• Love Your Nails Fast Dry Spray
• Water
• Cocktail stick

Step 1

Paint your nails blue.

Step 2

For the water marbled effect, fill a small pot with water. Drip a small amount of white nail varnish into it.

Step 3

Spray it with the drying spray as this will cause it to separate.

Step 4

Immediately dip a nail into the water, over the part of nail varnish which looks the best.

Step 5

Wait a few seconds for the nail varnish to start drying and then collect up the spare with a cocktail stick. You can then lift the finger carefully out of the water.

Step 6
 
Cover over the design in a top coat to protect it.

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Union Jack nails!

Union Jack Nails!

Rating: ***

Finished Nails!

Tools

I used:

• Barry M Gelly Cotton 505
• H&M Super Red
• Barry M Gelly Blue Grape 417
• La Femme Top Coat 118
• Tape
• Metal Tipped Small Paintbrush

Step 1

Paint your nails white. Between each step below, spray your nails with the Fast Dry Spray following the instructions on the can so you don't have to spend ages waiting for each layer to dry.

Step 2

Put tape on the four corners of your nails to paint a red cross one each one. Don't make it too wide or too narrow.

Step 3

Using the paintbrush, paint diagonal red lines in the four corners. Make sure they do not touch the red cross you did before.

Step 4

Using the paintbrush (clean the red off with nail varnish remover first), fill in the blue sections, leaving white around all the red. Don't worry too much about which bits of white should be thicker than others - it's too small to make much difference!

Finally, cover over the design in a top coat to protect it.

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Musical Nails!

Musical Nails!

Rating: **

Finished Nails

Tools

I used:

• Rimmel 60 Seconds 703 White Hot Love
• Barry M Confetti Liquorice 319
• Rio Professional Nail Art Pen in Black
• Rimmel Lasting Touch Ultra Shine Top Coat

Step 1

Paint your nails white.

Step 2

Paint all your nails, except the ring finger on each hand with the confetti.

Step 3

With the black pen, draw a treble clef in the middle of each ring finger (you may need a friend to help you on your dominant hand). I used the dotting tool as a pen and squeezed gently. This may take some practice so don't launch straight into doing it on your final nail design! Then add some musical notes around it. I did one either side but you could do more or less, as you see fit.

Finally, cover over the design in a top coat to protect it.

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Butterfly nails!

Butterfly Nails!

Rating: ***

Finished Nails

Tools

I used:

• Fashion Icon 448
• Rio Professional Nail Art Pens in Black
• Barry M Cotton 505
• La Femme Top Coat 118
• Small dotting tool

Step 1

Paint your nails purple.

Step 2

Paint a small black curve in one corner of the base of your nail and then draw 4 lines outwards from it at regular intervals.

Step 3

Make the end of each line spread out a little.

Step 4

Add some small white dots to the black sections at the end of the lines using the dotting tool.

Finally, cover over the design in a top coat to protect it.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below. And don't forget to head over to our Facebook page and hit like! 

Spotty Tipped Nails!

Spotty Tipped Nails

Rating: **

Finished Nails

Tools

I used:

• Rimmel 60 Seconds 703 White Hot Love
• Color Show 661 Ocean Blue
• Rio Professional Nail Art Pens in White and Blue

Step 1

Paint your nails white.

Step 2

Paint the ring finger on each hand with the blue.

Step 3

Using the dotting tool on the pens, put white dots on the tip of the blue nails and blue dots on the tip of the white ones. Be careful not to squeeze the pens too hard as they will spurt nail varnish everywhere!

Finally, cover over the design in a top coat to protect it and smooth it out.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below. And don't forget to head over to our Facebook page and hit like! 

Psychedelic Nails!

Psychedelic Nails!

Rating: ***

Finished Nails

Tools

 I used:

• Barry M Cotton
• La Femme 132 Ultra Pink
• La Femme 128 Ultra Yellow
• La Femme 127 Ultra Blue
• Collection 2000 44 Parma Violet
• La Femme 118 Top Coat
• Make-up sponge

Step 1

Paint your nails white.

Step 2

Paint 4 sections on the sponge, as below, and dab this onto your nail so the point where all the colours meet is at the centre of your nail.

Step 3

Cover your design with a top coat to protect it. You will also need to clean round the nails, using a cotton bud and some nail varnish remover, or a remover pen if you have one.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below. And don't forget to head over to our Facebook page and hit like! 

Smart Navy Nails!

Smart Navy Nails

(perfect for proms in the coming weeks!)

Rating: **

Finished Nails

Tools

I used:

• Collection 2000 60 Midnight
• Barry M Matte Top Coat
• Seventeen Glitter Nail Effects
• Make Up Sponge
• Masking Tape

Step 1

Paint your nails with the navy blue.

Step 2

Cover this with the matte top coat.

Step 3

Stick the tape on your nails, leaving only the centre part uncovered. Using the sponge, dab the glitter over this section. Peel off the tape immediately.

DO NOT cover this design with a top coat or you will ruin the matte effect!

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Gold Stripes!

Gold Striped Nails!

Rating: **

Finished Nails

Tools

I used:

• Barry M 245 Gold
• 17 Fury
• All About Nails 101 Cocoa
• La Femme Top Coat 118
• Tape

 Step 1

Paint your nails with the Barry M gold. You will probably want two coats to get a full coverage.

Step 2

Make sure the base coat is completely dry. Then put some tape over the left side of the base of your nail, about a third of the way across, at an angle and paint over the rest of the nail with the 17 gold. Make sure you remove the tape immediately, before the nail varnish goes tacky and pulls as you remove the tape.

Step 3

Repeat step 2 with the darkest gold, two thirds of the way across your nail.

Finally, cover over the design in a top coat to protect it and smooth it out.

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Easter Bunny Nails!

Easter Bunny Nails

Rating: *****

Finished Nails

Tools

Nail Pens

I used:

• Collection 23 Baby Blue
• Miss Sporty 344 Grape Fit
• Miss Sporty 408 Baby Pink
• Barry M 304 Mint Green
• Rio Professional Nail Art Pens (can be bought here)
• La Femme Top Coat 118
• Small dotting tool

Step 1 

Paint your nails blue.

Step 2

Using the white nail art pen, draw bunny shapes on your ring fingers.

Step 3

Using the dotting tool and the pastel nail varnishes, add egg shapes to your fingers, near the tip. You can either make them random colours or you can have a pattern.

Step 4

Using the black nail art pen and the pink nail varnish, add an eye and the inside of the ear to each rabbit.

Step 5

Using the nail art pens, add dots and lines to the eggs.

Step 6

Using the green nail art pen, add grass to each nail.

Finally, cover over the design in a top coat to protect it and smooth it out.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below. And don't forget to head over to our Facebook page and hit like!