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:

• Kure Bazaar “Scandal” Nail Polish
• Butter London “Pikey” Overcoat

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:

• Kure Bazaar “Frenchie” Nail Polish
• Kure Bazaar “Rock Star” Nail Polish

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:

• SpaRitual “Melt With You” Nail Polish
• SpaRitual “French White Tip” Nail Polish

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:

• Butter London “Chimney Sweep” Nail Polish
• Butter London “Cotton Buds” Nail Polish

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

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