Van Gogh Starry Night Nails

This tutorial shows you how to create this Starry Night nail look for some very arty nail art :)

You'll need: black, yellow, white and three different blue polishes

1)

Start by using your darkest blue polish and paint all of your nails, do two coats on the first four and one on your little finger nail as this one should be slightly lighter.

2)

Next, use your white polish and add some dashes across all your nails, try to make it swirly on the bigger nails

3)

Then use your lightest blue polish and add some more dashes amongst the white ones

4)

Add some white splodges for the first part of the stars and use your middle-tone blue to add some dashes all over your nails.

5)

Then use your yellow polish to add some colour to the stars. The little finger nail has a crescent moon on to match the right side of the painting :)

6)

Then you need to paint the cypress on the left of the painting; take your black polish and paint a thick, curved line up your nail. Then gradually add to it one each side to create the full shape


7)

Add some yellow dashes amongst the white ones to create some starlight :)

8)

Add any more light blue or white dashes that you think your nails need to give them the Starry Night look :)


And this is the finished Starry Night nail art design :)

Piet Mondrian Composition Nails

This tutorial is inspired by Piet Mondrian's Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow and is something a little bit different with bold primary colours )

1)

You will need a five colours: black, yellow, white, blue and red. I used Barry M Black #47 (not pictured!) Nail Star Yellow, Barry M  Matt White #66,  Rimmel #198 Azure and Ciate Boudoir 

2)

The first thing to do is paint two thin coats of your white polish on all of your nails.

3)

Next, use your black polish and carefully paint some vertical and horizontal lines. They key to this look is not always going fully across the nail, so that the squares become a bit disjointed (sorry the picture came out blurry!)

4)

Next, fill in some of the squares with your red, yellow and black polishes. They can be adjacent but make sure to leave some squares white :)

5)

Then paint some different black outlines on the rest of your nails, and colour in with your red, blue, yellow and black polishes as in step 4. The grid can be however you like with more/less squares than mine depending on your nail size. 

And this is the finished Piet Mondrian inspired nail art :)