Easy DIY nail art to jazz up your digits.
Painting your nails all one color? Pffft! While nail art is all the rage, I always lean toward DIY nail art as opposed to going to a salon. One, because it saves oodles of money, and two, because I don’t want toxic chemicals on my tips.
Below are 6 fabulous DIY nail art designs and suggested non-toxic nail polishes to go with them:
Tutorial + Image Source: Dit&O
1. Glitter Ombre
- Paint your base color on all of your nails.
- Paint your glitter overcoat, making sure it’s heavier toward the base of your nail and lighter toward the tip.
- Once the ombre effect is how you like it, apply a top coat.
Colors to Try:
Tutorial + Image Source: Love, Blair
2. The Undone Manicure
- Paint your lighter base color on all of your nails.
- To paint the complimenting darker shade, place the brush on the outer edges of each nail and quickly sweep inward, repeating all the way to the tip.
- Apply a top coat.
Colors to Try:
Tutorial + Image Source: LuLu’s
3. Pink Gradient
- Paint your thumbnails with a deep pink nail polish.
- Pour four puddles of pink polish. Add one drop of white polish to the first, two to the second, three to the third, and four to the fourth.
- Paint each nail from darkest to lightest for the gradient effect, finishing with a top coat.
Colors to Try:
Tutorial + Image Source: Lulu’s
4. Black and White Asymmetrical Crescent
- Paint your white base coat.
- Carefully paint a curved line to define the black area.
- Fill in with black nail polish and finish with a top coat.
Colors to Try:
Tutorial + Image Source: POPSUGAR
5. Yellow-and-Blue Nail Art
- Apply yellow nail polish to every finger but your ring fingers.
- Apply blue nail polish to your ring fingers.
- Dip the tip of a bobby pin into your white nail polish and apply dots to your ring fingers, finishing off the look with a top coat.
Colors to Try:
- Butter London “Pimms” Nail Polish
- Ginger & Liz “The Good Life” Nail Polish
- Butter London “Cotton Buds” Nail Polish
Tutorial + Image Source: Quite Polished
6. Stippling DIY Nail Art
- Paint your nails with your preferred base coat (or mix and match several colors).
- Using a toothpick, create dots on the tip of your nail (dark if your base coat is light, and vice versa). Create so many you can hardly see the base coat underneath.
- Keep working down your nail, using fewer dots as you move your way to your cuticles, finishing off with a top coat.
Colors to Try:
- Scotch Naturals “Morning Glory Fizz” Nail Polish
- Priti “Geisha Girl” Nail Polish
- SpaRitual “French White Tip” Nail Polish
What are your favorite DIY nail art designs?
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Image: Courtney Rhodes