Hitchcock Nails

This tutorial shows how to create these nail designs inspired by various Alfred Hitchcock films. It features (l-r above) a monochrome spiral for Vertio, red blood on white for the Psycho shower scene, lots of bird silhouettes on mint (because of her dress) to represent The Birds, the accent nail is a cartoony version of a Hitchcock blonde (I was thinking Rear Window, Grace Kelly) and also Rope is illustrated by a noose.

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For this tutorial you will need white, red, black, nude, mint, blue, brown and yellow polishes. I used (l-r) Collection #103 French White, Barry M Red Wine, Barry M Black, Barry M Nude, Saffron Mint, Rimmel Lasting Finish Azure, Max Factor Coffee Brown and the Yellow is from a nail star set. 

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Start by painting your thumb and index nails white, your middle nail mint, the accent nail nude and the little nail blue. 

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The simplest nail is the Rope one, where on your little nail you simply paint a thin brown line down your nail, then carefully add a circle onto the end of it. 

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On your accent nail, paint half the nail yellow, then add some curve towards the plain side to create a profile type shape. 

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Next, add a red sideways triangle for the lips then slightly above dab your blue polish to create an eye. Give her a flick of eyeliner with your black polish by curving over the blue eye and extending outwards.

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These birds are fairly simple as they are just basic outlines - just use your black shade to carefully paint an elongated m shape. The best way is to paint one curve at a time, rather than trying to do it in one go. 

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Next, add as many more birds as you like or can fit :)


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For the Vertigo nail, take your black polish and carefully paint a large circular shape as close to the edges of your thumb nail as you can, ending it slightly further in than you started.


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Then continue this curve and spiral it inwards. If you find lines hard to paint, try doing little dots and then painting between them like a connect-the-dots drawing, or do lots of dots next to eachother and simple smooth them out after :)

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For the Psycho bloody nail, give your index nail a red french tip - try tilting your nail towards your brush stroke to create an even curve. 


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Now add some dropping blood - use your red polish and draw some random, fairly thick shapes extending from the french tip, smooth these into the straight red line by blending the two layers of red together. Then add some random drops wherever you like on your nail. 


And this is the finished Hitchcock nail art design, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! :)