Wednesday 4 July 2012

Crackle Nail Polish Tutorial



Hey guys so today I'm going to show you how to do crackle nails.  My little cousin wanted me to do her nails like this the other day, so I thought I'd do a blog showing you how to do it using my mum as my hand model. :)  


I'm going to show you how to do a rainbow/peacock style nail crackle.


This is the product I am going to use and show you how to try and achieve the effect above. (the picture above is nails inc official picture, not my own).

what you will need . . . 



  • a base coat nail polish
  • a crackle nail polish
  • 4 bright coloured polishes
  • a top coat nail polish


step one

Firstly, as always ensure your nails are clean and free from any oils or polishes and file your nails into shape.  Apply a base coat polish to your nails to protect them from the colours you are going to apply on top of them.


step two

Applying the base colours to your nails.  I chose 4 bright nail polishes, nails inc; notting hill gate, spring mews, kensington park road and carnaby street.


Using each of the above colours paint your nails with each colour, (see picture below).  You can randomly paint your nails with the coloured polishes in any kind of pattern, don't worry about leaving any spaces or overlapping as it does not matter once you go to apply the crackle nail polish.


The picture below is how you want your nails to turn out, not meaning the patterns I painted but that each nail should have a section of colour of each of the coloured nail polishes you have chosen. 


step three

Once your nails have completely dried you want to carefully paint on your crackle polish, being careful not to paint too much on your nails, as they wont crackle or too little as you wont get a good coverage.  This may take a little patience and trial and error.


It will take a few moments, but as you nails dry the polish will start to crackle.

step four

Tidying up; don't worry if you get any polish onto the skin around your nails.  You can remove it with a cotton wool bud dipped in nail varnish remover.



Once you have tidied your nails up they should look like this.  As you can see it doesn't matter what your polish looked like underneath as you will only get glimpses of it through the crackles.


step five

Looking at your nails now you may think they look a bit dull and matt looking but this is why you seal them with a top coat of polish, which will also make them pop.



Links to the polishes used in this tutorial . . .



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Zane xx















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Easy Summer Nail Art Flowers

hey guys, this is just a quick little blog showing you what else you can do with the kebab/cocktail stick technique you learnt in the leopard print blog.  Now there are many things, you just need to use your imagination but what I am going to show you is perfect for the summer, simple to do, quick and really pretty! 


Kebab stick Flowers




Here are a couple of examples of the kebab stick nails, you can either do a single flower or a few flowers on each nail or completely cover your nails in flowers.  Now I'm going to show you how to do this technique.


step one

Ensure your nails are clean of any oils or nail polish.  At this stage you can either apply a clear nail polish to your nails or a pale/lighter colour to the colours you have chosen for your flowers.


As my acrylic overlay is growing out I decided to apply a pale pink nail polish over my nail.

step two 

Using your kebab/cocktail stick make a centre dot for your flower by dipping the stick into a blob of polish on either an unwanted surface or piece of old plastic.  


I used an old envelope.


I also chose a pale yellow as the centre of my flower.

step three

Clean your stick and using the same technique as step two chose a different colour for the petals of your flower.  You are then going to place dots around the centre dot of your flower.


I chose a nice coral pink colour, don't worry if your flower is not perfect, it does not matter :)

step four

This step is optional, you may decide to just paint one flower on your nail but you can also repeat the above technique and add more flowers to your nail.

I decided to alternate the different colours of my flowers and kept them around the side of my nail.  As you can see some of the flowers are just half a flower (the purple one).

step five 

Once the polish has completely dried and set paint a top coat over your nails to seal them.


So that's it guys, easy peasy, super quick and really effective!  It can also be nice as something extra on your french manicure, or perhaps to add a bit of glam to your toes.

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Converse Nails Tutorial



Hey guys, today I'm going to show you how simple it is to paint converse trainers onto your nails.  These look super cute and even on just one finger is eye catching.  Why not co-ordinate them with you're own converse . . .



what you will need . . . 

  • a base coat polish
  • a top coat polish
  • five coloured polishes
  • a white nail polish
  • a black and a white nail art pen (if you don't have these you can use the kebab/cocktail stick technique shown in the leopard print tutorial and use a black and white polish)


step one

Ensure your nails are completely clean of any polish or oils, file your nails to the desired shape and paint on a layer of base coat polish.  This will prevent your nails from any coloured staining from your nail polish.


I used nails inc a&e advanced treatment as my base coat.  My nails may look a little strange but I have acrylic overlay on my nails, which are growing out.  This design can be painted on any kind of nail, acrylic overlay or not.

step two

Applying your coloured polishes, I picked five different colours and applied each colour to each of my fingers.


These are the 5 nails inc polishes I decided to use, from left to right; summer place, regents place, palace mews, stanhope gardens and the southbank.


Here are my nails with the above colours and with one coat of polish.

step three

Applying the white curved strip at the bottom of your nails once your base colour has completely dried.  This can be quite tricky, especially if you don't have a steady hand so just take your time and go slowly.  Start off with a small white strip and once you have your shape then go over it again making it a little thicker.  


You can use a white polish to paint these on, I used nails inc floral street, or your white nail art pen, using the brush side.


Paint a white curved strip on the end of each of your nails.

step four

Whilst you are waiting for the white strips to dry you can carefully apply the black lace holes on the remaining coloured part of your nails using your black nail art pen or your or black polish with a kebab/cocktail stick.


You want to apply 6 dots, 3 on each side, trying to keep them in line with each other.


Apply this technique to each of your nails.

step five

Once the black has dried you can use your white nail art pen/kebab stick to paint on the laces on your shoes.

Start at one dot and paint a stripe from that dot to the diagonal one.  Then starting at the parallel dot do the same thing, you will end up with an X shape.  Carry this out again on the remaining dots, finishing with what looks like two X's (see the pictures above).

Step six 

The white curved strip at the bottom of your nails should have dried and set by now, just double check.  Once you are sure the white has dried you are going to use your black nail art pen to paint on a thin black line.  You can either use the pen tip or the thin brush, whatever you are most comfortable with.


I decided to use the thin brush part of my nail art pen.

Using the thin brush I started about half way down the white strip, started at the side of the nail and painted a curved sweep into the middle.  I then repeated this process on the other side of the nail so the line met in the middle.


Apply this technique to each nail.  

It may be a little tricky doing this on your left hand if you are right handed or your right hand if you are left handed.  Just try different ways to hold your brush and perhaps steady your hand on something.  Once you have found a way you will stick with it.  How I paint with my left hand is a lot different to how I paint with my left.  I also tend to start by painting my right hand first as it usually takes longer than my left and at the beginning I always seem to have more patience! :D


step seven

Ensure your nails are completely dry before applying a coat of top coat as the black can streak and you don't want to ruin all your hard work.

Links to the polishes used in this tutorial . . .

THIS IS MY FACEBOOK FAN PAGE, FEEL FREE TO LEAVE ME ANY COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS ON MY BLOG OR WHAT YOU'D LIKE ME TO DO. OH AND UPLOAD SOME OF YOUR PICTURES FOLLOWING THE TUTORIALS I'D LOVE TO SEE THEM ALL! :D https://www.facebook.com/pages/DIY-NAIL-ART/321393224615432?cropsuccess 
                                        
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