Colour blocking nail art

Colour blocking nail art tutorial

An easy way to jazz up your nails... plus all of these colours can be replaced with different ones!

Step 1:

First I painted my nails with two coats of yellow nail varnish.

[Yellow by Barry M] boring name!

Step 2:

When that colour had dried I got a piece of sellotape with a length of about double the width of your nail to be safe (any kind of tape will do, except gaffa or duct.. obviously). I placed it with the straight edge diagonally across my nail and painted a bright blue in the section that wasn't covered. Then I quickly took the tape off.

[Blueberry Ice Cream by Barry M]

Step 3:

Repeat step 2 with a different colour. Repeat this step as many times as you want.

[Bright Pink by Barry M]

Step 4:

I used a black nail art pen to create very thin lines across my nails. Alternatively you could use a striping tool, paintbrush or even striping tape. Enjoy!

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Penguin nail art

Penguin nail art tutorial

Who doesn't love penguins?! Well, I've made a tutorial to show you how to get them on your nails too!

Firstly, I painted my nails with two coats of pale blue nail varnish, but the background colour could be anything you want, maybe white for ice?

[Blueberry Ice Cream by Barry M]

Then I painted an arch shape onto my nail, curve at the cuticle end, in black.

[Shade 2 by MUA]

When all that had dried, I got out my trusty white nail pen and dotted twice for eyeballs, and then used a tiny paintbrush to paint a little beak on the fella.

[Orange Creme by W7] 

The black was (obviously) dry so I used white nail varnish on the brush to create another arch shape identical to the black one but smaller to make the little guy's belly!

[Barry M's Matt White] 

Overview of the manicure: 

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Hibiscus flower nail art

Hibiscus flower manicure

I loved doing this hibiscus flower manicure, it reminded me of tropical beaches and sunsets....hmm..anyway!

First off I painted the nail with two coats of a bright white colour and let it completely dry; I used Barry M's Matt White.

Next, using a very thin paintbrush, I put a small dot in the middle of the nail and drew a horizontal-ish line out to the left, finishing with a smaller dot on the end of the line. I used W7's Fluorescent Pink 2 for this part.

After that, I used the actual nail varnish brush to create 4 large petals around the little stem thing (forgot the name!). I did this by doing smooth strokes and not pressing too hard. 

When that had dried I used a white nail art pen (£1 from a pound shop) to brush light shines onto the petals to make them seem more realistic. I then made the middle of the flower bigger (by accident, I blobbed :-( sorry) but I'm still pretty happy at how it came out! 

An overview of the manicure: 

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I started about 2 months ago on Instagram when I decided to make an account for my nail tutorials. I enjoy it so much I've decided to create a blog and an Etsy store to sell false nail sets and iphone & ipod cases at low prices, worldwide.

This blog will be to show you any new products I have for sale and to show you my Instagram tutorials in more in-depth detail.

Thank you for looking at my blog!

Jasmin xx

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