What Pippa Did......: Holiday Nails

So I did my nails in time for my holidays.... 2 days to go!!

I used the same colours as in my last post, but thought I'd add a bit of a pattern to them.

My inspiration is the Half-Moon tutorial in my 'Wah Nails Book of Nail Art' that I bought a few weeks ago. But, the instructions in the book say to draw the half-moons on free hand, and I don't have the skill or steadiness for that... especially with my left hand! So I had to improvise a bit.

What I used: -

l-r Models Own Beach Party; Balearic Cool; Hedonist;
3-in-1 Base Coat, Top Coat & Gloss,
Cotton buds; Hole reinforcer stickers

How I did it: -

After using the base coat and waiting for that to dry, I painted the bottom third of each nail, alternatly using the Balearic Cool, Beach Party and Hedonist nail varnishes - then waited for them to dry.

Next, I cut five of the hole reinforcer stickers in half and stuck each half to each of my nails so only a little bit of the colour was showing in the gap. As below....

Then, using the cotton buds and nail varnish remover, I removed any of the excess nail varnish showing over the sticker - The reason I did this was because the Balearic Cool blue that I'm using is a very thin varnish, and so I don't want the excess to show underneath. I'm sure if you use a thicker varnish you wont have that problem... and i'm sure if I used enough coats I wouldn't either, but it just seemed easier.

So then I painted my top coat, using the Balearic Cool, and one statement nail using Hedonist.

Wait for it to completely dry before peeling off the stickers - and I mean completely dry, like 'watch a movie for a couple of hours then peel them off' kinda dry.

Fill in any gaps that might have appeared.

Add your top coat.......Et voila!