Recently, I decided to paint my nails with some fancy nail art. Typically, I opt for a simple all black or all white style; but I decided to do something fancier.
The nails I did were inspired by the eye design Alexa Chung has rocked.
Here's how it turned out;
Here's how to do it.
1. Paint your nails with a base coat. (I used: 'All in One Base' by Essie)
2. Paint nails with a base colour ('White On' by Sally Hansen)
3. Using a nail striper & black polish, carefully draw the outline of the eye. Two semi circles. Similar to the shape of a lemon. ('Black Out' by Sally Hansen)
4. Paint all nails EXCEPT ring finger with your top coat. This will allow your nails to dry quicker so you don't have to function with the 'wet nail technique' we all know at the end.
5. Take the colour you want to use for the iris and get a small amount on the end of a dotting tool. Carefully dot into the centre of the eye. (You can also repeat this step using black and a smaller dotting tool to create the pupil. I skipped this.)
6. Taking the black polish and striper again, draw thin lines off the top of the eye for eyelashes. You can also repeat this step along the bottom for bottom lashes.
7. Give this nail a minute to dry, then add your top coat. To preserve the design, I went with two coats.
And it's that simple! Of course you can substitute the iris colour/base coat colours, and do this design on as many or as few nails as you'd like.
I uploaded a tutorial on YouTube, if you'd like to check it out;
Let me know if you try it out!
xx
- ♡ Alex ♡
