More on nails

My previous post showed easy nail art, which was quite festive as it was similar to candy canes. However if you want your nails to look even more like candy canes, i recommend this technique- use nail striping tape.  I bought a pack of 10 colours, on eBay for about a pound. There are lots of different ways to use it, either place it on top of tacky nail varnish, as decoration, then seal with layer of clear varnish, for a foil decorative effect. Or as shown here, use it to section off part of the nails.

(Photo not mine! Camera was packed at the time!)

To create this candy cane effect i painted a plain white base. I then cut strands of the striping tape and sectioned off parts of the nail by placing the tape diagnoally on the nail to form the stripes. Then i used a red glitter ( i recommend Barry M as it is super hard-wearing! But be warned its a bit of a pain to take off!) to fill in the stripes. Let it dry then peel the old tape off. This leaves you with red and white diagonal stripes with perfect clean lines.

Kayla xxx