NAIL POST: how to - rose nails

While I love skin care and make up, my best friend is crazy about nails and nail art.
She's an amazing artist, and I just love it when she does my nails. I always end up with something original ;)

I want to feature her on this blog because I think she deserves to be known for what she can do with nails, so I asked her to make a tutorial for these nails.

They are perfect for an innocent yet sophisticated style, and go great with vintage and white lace.




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WHAT YOU'LL NEED

*Basecoat by essence (nail art protecting base coat)

*Insider (46) by essence (multi dimension)

*Nr 503 by L’oréal Jet-Set diamant

*Nr 337 by Yes Love

*In the jungle (10) by essence 

*Pacific UK van New Look

*Dotting tool

TUTORIAL

1 Apply a basecoat

2 Apply background colour

3 Apply 4 dots of nailpolish, use different colours. You can use any colour, but for the "rose" effect, it's best to go with white and red. With your dotting tool, draw circles through the nailpolish. Make sure you don't completly mix up the colours. 

4 Add leaves with your dotting tool. Normally, two leaves are added on one side of the flower, and one on the other side. Don't stress about making the leaves perfect, flowers in nature are all different from each other as well =)

5 When your nails are completly dry, you can use a sheer topcoat. I like to use a nailpolish that has a bit of glitter to it, for extra shimmer.

Be creative: try positioning the roses differently on different nails, try another background color and even other colors for your roses etc.

Practice makes perfect, and it's so fun to play around with this pattern =)

Good luck!!

xx 

Kaylie & Evelien