Framed Manicure

Framed Manicure

This design will take you about 10-15 minutes to complete. The level of difficulty is easy.

• Start with applying a base coat to protect your nails.
• Put a coat or two of the color you want as the border, covering the whole nail.
• Paint on the "center" color on top of the "frame" color, leaving a bit at all edges. Move the brush in a curved motion and pick the brush up before it reaches the tip of the nail.
• Touch up later to fix all imperfections with the frame color. You can also add a final strip at the tip of the nail to make this edge look more accurate. 
• Let nail polish dry and apply a top coat to protect your design.

Items to use:

Red Red Red Red Blue Red Nail Art

Red Red Red Red Blue Red Nail Art

Make a statement! Have one finger to stand out.

1. Apply the base coat to protect your nails.
2. Apply blue nail polish of your ring fingers and red on the rest. 
3. Apply a top coat to protect it and give your nails more shine.

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Desaturated Berry Ombre Nails

Desaturated Berry Ombre Nails

Ombre nails are cool and subtle and they are easy to do on your own. This version of ombre nails is when the color fades from one nail to the next.

For a "real" nail-to-nail-ombre mani you need to use at least 2 colors of nail polish intermixing them together to create a gradient transition from one nail to another.  These colors can be monochromatic or complementary.

For this mani I used 5 different nail polishes that create a nice complementary pallete.  

Pink Cherry Gradient Nails

Pink Cherry Gradient Nails

1. Choose 3 nail polish colors that reflect the palette of a cherry. In my case I had pale yellow, light golden orange and golden wine.
2. Trim the sponge, you are going to be using to make a gradient, to the size of the length of your nails. This is going to help you to have better control of the placement for a smoother gradient.
3. Apply base coat to protect your natural nails.
4. Apply base color, which is a pale yellow here, and allow to dry a bit.
5. Brush you choice of polish onto a sponge in the order you want them to appear on your nails.
6. Gently press a sponge onto your nails with your base color covering a bed of your nail (lunula). You may find that you need to do this a couple of times to achieve a good coverage. Alternate the positioning of the sponge every pressing, by bringing it a little closer to a bed of a nail and next time closer to a tip, to create a smooth transition of the colors.
7. Allow polish to dry and finish with a top coat.

Watermelon Casual

Watermelon is great on a hot summer day. 

Abercrombie fitch / Maison Scotch cotton shorts, $62
Loafer shoes / Vila Clothes zip bag, $110
Cuff jewelry / A Cuckoo Moment Stingray, $199
Flat sunglasses / Henry Holland, $89
Belt / Saddler Saddler Ann Belt, $39

Blood and Steel

Red Nails with Metallic Highlight

1. Apply base coat to protect your nails.
2. Put 2 coats of a red color polish on the most of your nails and a metallic color polish  on the ones you want to emphasize.
3. Cover you nails with a top coat polish.

Hi-Lo Nail Design: Hollow Base with Blue Tips

Hollow Base with Blue Tips

1. Use tape to mask the area that you want to keep hollow. 
2. Cover left area with the base coat polish to protect your natural nails. 
3. Put 2 coat of the polish of your choice. 
4. Right after you are done with the last coat of the last nail, take off the tape in the order it was put on.
5. Give polish few minutes to dry, to eliminate any smudges.
6. (optional) Apply embellishments of your choice.
7. Cover the whole nails with (a) clear base coat and after fast dry top coat or (b) 2 layers of the top coat nail polish.

Green to Blue Gradient Nail Art

Green to Blue Gradient Nail Art

Take three colors: green, light blue and blue, use your favorit Gradient Nail Art technique to achieve this look.

Poppy Marble

Clear to Golden Burgundy Nail Art

Clear to Golden Burgundy Nail Art

Using the Gradient nails technique, start off the clear base polish, gradually adding the color to the tips of the nails. Nail polishes with a metallic shine work the best.

Sunrise Kiss

Fourth of July Celebration Nail Art

Fourth of July Celebration Nail Art

The stripes on the "flag" fingers are made with Nail Art Pen, which makes this design very easy to achieve.

1. Apply the base coat to protect your nails.
2. Apply red nail polish on your ring and pinky and nave blue nail on the rest. 
3. Using the Nail Art stripper, draw vertical lines in white.
4. Let your design dry, and apply a top coat to protect it and give your nails more shine.

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