With neutral colours, it'll go with any outfit and is really simple, but so effective. I like to do this with a feature nail on each of my ring fingers and designed tips on the rest of my fingers, but you can totally mix and match. This would look great with plain fingers and just a feature nail, all designed tips, or all fully designed - you can really make this as complicated as you feel! This design was inspried by this ihaveacupcake tutorial and here's my take on it.
Start, as always, by cleaning off your previous design, washing your hands and moisturisng. To try this design, you'll need:
a good base coat, a neutral, nude colour as your base, a bronze or a brown for the spots, a black striper (or a black varnish and a striping brush), and a top coat (I tend to use a matt effect top coat with this design). A dotting tool would also be useful, but is not essential. If you don't have a striper brush, you could try using the point of a cocktail stick. My varnishes are: Sally Hansen "Double Duty", Model's Own "Nude/Beige", Mac "Originality" and Rimmel "Matt Finish".
Start by painting all of your nails with a base coat, and two coats of the nude colour. Next, paint bronze, irregular sized dots on the tips of all of your nails and the whole of your ring finger nails using the dotting tool (or, carefully, with the paint brush as I did in the picture below).
You should make the spots different sizes, and they shouldn't be perfectly round. Leave some hanging off the tips and the sides of your nails too. Then, use the black striper to draw lines around two edges of the bronze spots. Don't make them all uniform - do some lines on the top and bottom of the spots, and some to the left and right. My black striper tends to get really gloopy so I pour a few drops of nail varnish remover into it, put the lid on and give it a good shake and it thins out well enough to use. You'll probably have to do it every few times you use it, but it's easy enough to do. It's an old trick, but it seems to work!
Now - leave your nails to dry. For as long as possible. Like, a LONG time! You could even leave your design as is and cover with a top coat the next morning to avoid smudging your black lines. Then use either a matt effect top coat, or a regular top coat (you can use Double Duty as a top coat as well as a base coat).
Et voila! You're ready to enjoy the compliments your bound to receive!
My next post is going to be tutorial showing an alternative to the classic french manicure which is even easier to personalise than this one!
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