Hope you all had a great weekend! As promised, here's my step-by-step tutorial on a simple flower nail art design :) I took inspiration for this from my Twitter background lol!
First and foremost you want to grab yourself some dotting tools.
This set was sent to me by Born Pretty Store. Not only are they fantastic quality but they're pink and double ended. Awesome stuff :D
Next you want to paint your nail with a protective base coat and then a nice bright Barbie pink! For my base coat I used OPI Nail Envy followed by Seche Clear and then painted three coats of Barry M 279 Bright Pink.
Now you want to grab a medium sized dotting tool and an opaque black nail polish. I used Illasmaqua Boosh.
Blob a small amount of the polish on a scrap piece of paper and pick it up on the tool and dot five blobs on each nail in a circular pattern like this:
I was able to fit two lots on my thumb nails :)
Next take a small sized dotting tool. This isn't the smallest one in the set but it's smaller than the one I used before!
Take a white nail polish and using the same method as before put dots in the centre of the circular patterns you first created. I used Barry M 66 Matt White.
Now you can leave it like this if you want. Just add a top coat one everything is completely dry.
I decided to add some "vines" with my Milani Nail Art Polish in 703 Black Sketch.
I just finished it off with a coat of Seche Vite :)
What do you guys think? Even a cack-handed person like me managed to replicate the pattern on my right hand :D
I'll be doing a tutorial for the stamping kit I featured here but I'm waiting for a day when Ant's about to help me take the photos! Lol!
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Nail Art Tools are from Born Pretty Store
The 10% discount code is: JELLYMXK31
It is valid until 31st March 2011
The Nail Art Stamping Kit I have can be found here for $12.63 before discount.
The Dotting Tools I have can be found here for $4.74 before discount.
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I really love this post!
ReplyDeleteI need to get my hands on these nail art tools.
I feel like it's the only thing that may improve my nail art skills.
Take a look at my blog if you have time?
www.essiebutton.blogspot.com
That looks lovely! But I'm afraid even a simple drawing like this one is out of reach for me :-s
ReplyDeleteThat looks great! I keep meaning to get some nail art tools.
ReplyDelete@Estée: They're really good quality and so inexpensive :)
ReplyDeleteYou have a cute blog :)
Kelly x
@Musing on Beauty: I'm as cack handed as they come! Just have to make sure you take your time :)
ReplyDeleteKelly x
@Lillian Funny Face: It's really easy to do but it looks so cute :) I was so pleased with myself lol!
ReplyDeleteKelly x
Really cute nail art! :)
ReplyDelete@Jennifer Leigh: Thank you :)
ReplyDeleteKelly x