So excited to show you all some tips on nail care and a nail
art example! Let’s get started:
After removing any nail polish I buff and file my nails, I showed
my buffing block and nail filer in my beauty haul, which is what I used this time.
The buffing block removes dead skin and any stains from dark nail polishes.
There’s four sides to it, the first one evens out your nails, the second side smooth’s
the nail out, the third buffs your nail and lastly you shine your nails. When
doing all these steps make sure you move the block in the same direction, don’t
go up and down, side to side, just one way. This also goes for filing your
nails. When I file my nails I shape them into a square shape, I use a tweezer
man nail cutter with a straight edge in order to give my nail that square
shape.
Now that your nails a pretty without any polish on you’re
ready to make them even prettier!
For nail art I use my dotting tools that I bought on Amazon
for less than $3. I’m only showing two of them because I’m pretty the other
three dotting tools are at my parents’ house because my sister uses them too
and we use to share all that stuff. They all have different size tips to create
a lot of unique art work. You can make your nails look like you spent hours on
them, when it really only took you like 10 minutes to do, that’s the beauty of
dotting tools. For the design I did today I just used one of the dotting tools,
this design is like a lace design, and it’s super easy!
I first put my base coat on (all the nail polish I used today are Sinful Colors, I get these at Target) and let that dry. Then you put your first coat on, I used white, I’ve also used a pale pink for this design before and it looks just as great. After I let two coats of white dry I use my dotting with the bigger end and dip it in black polish, then I just place the dots a little less than the middle of my nail and make a straight line across it. I do that to all my nails then fill in the rest of my nail with the black polish. You then let that dry for a bit and use the smaller tip of your dotting tool and place those dots where the other dots were to create that lace effect. After creating this look just add your clear coat to make it shine and finish the look!
Make sure you let it completely dry because then some of the
colors will smear, I’m very impatient so some of mine did smear a bit : ( If
you’re as impatient as I am you can tip your nails in ice cold water to help
the drying process, it doesn’t completely dry them but it sure does speed up
the process.
I get a lot of inspiration from Pinterest or YouTube, my
favorite beauty guru is Jenny Fox, a.k.a MissJenFabulous. She does a lot of
nail art and gives step by step instructions on how she does them. She uses
dotting tools for almost all her tutorials so the designs she does are easy to
re-create.The design I did today is pinned in my Beauty board on Pinterest,
that’s where I got the idea for it. Thank you Pinterest!
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