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.

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Spring Flower nails!

Spring Flower Nails!

Happy Easter everyone! It's a little late but better late than never, right?

Rating: **

Finished Nails

Tools

Butterflies

I used:

• Collection 2000 Nail Care Top Coat
• Barry M 290 Spring Green
• Maybelline 720 Green Miracle
• Rimmel 60 Seconds 703 White Hot Love
• Rimmel Lasting Colour 280 Sunshine
• 20/0 Paintbrush
• Dotting tool (not pictured)
• 2 Butterflies
• Tweezers (not pictured) 

Step 1

Paint your nails with the clear top coat.

Step 2

Use the paintbrush to paint the lighter green across the tips of all your nails. Start at the tip and flick the brush up towards the cuticle to get the pointy grass look.

Step 3

Use the paintbrush to paint the darker green over the light green. Don't do too much, you just want it to add depth.

Step 4

Paint the flower petals onto the nails. For each one, start at the centre of the flower and draw the brush outwards. If you can, you may want to practice this before you do it on your nails.

Step 5

Add the centres of the flowers using the yellow and a small dotting tool.

Step 6

Add the butterflies to your thumbs. You could put them on your ring fingers if you wanted but I thought it looked a bit crowded. To do this, paint a small amount of clear nail varnish where you want the butterfly. Pick out a butterfly and place it on the nail. Position it using the tweezers and hold it down (bending it to the shape of the nail) until it no longer slides around. 

Step 7

Paint over the design with the top coat and clean up around it. Make sure to put a little extra over the butterfly, just to make sure it doesn't come off too easily as it does stick up a bit.

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Butterfly nails!

Butterfly Nails!

Rating = **

Finished nails

Tools

I used:

• 'Collection 2000 Manicure 103 French White'
• 'Rimmel Lasting Finish 030 Double Decker Red'
• 'Rimmel Lasting Finish 080 Black Cab'
• 'Collection 2000 Nail Care Top Coat'
• 3D Nail Seal stickers
• Sellotape (sorry, I left it out of the picture!)
• A cocktail stick
• A dotter made from a hairbrush (it is cheaper!)

Step 1

Paint your nails white. Don't worry if it is messy, you can clean it up at the end either with a cotton bud and nail varnish remover or you can peel it off!

Step 2

Place a piece of sellotape diagonally across half of your nail. Paint the uncovered half red. Carefully peel off the sellotape immediately. Tidy up the line by using the cocktail with a small amount of white nail varnish on it. If you end up with a patch that is a lot thicker than the rest, carefully use the white varnish brush to go over it to make it the same thickness.

Step 3

Carefully peel off a butterfly sticker and place it along the line on your ring finger, on the red side. If you don't have stickers, then you can use a thin brush and the black nail varnish to paint your own butterfly.

Step 4
 

Using the dotter, put 3-5 dots down the line on each finger except the fingers with the butterflies on. Add 2-3 dots behind the butterfly, along the line too.

Step 5

Paint over each nail with the top coat to seal in the design.

Finally, clean up around the nails to make them look neat.

My next post will be Bumble Bees!

If you have any suggestions or questions, please email them to nail.art12345@gmail.com or leave a comment below

(edit: photos updated on 25/10/2014)