Do-It-Yourself Nail Art!
One way to make doing your nails more fun is to decorate them!
With nail art pens now available at your local drugstore, having cute designs on your nails has never been so easy and so you! Don't be afraid to experiment and go a little crazy with your designs—be adventurous! From flowers to stars to polka dots, and even zebra stripes, you can create any design you want!
Have a design in mind? Share with us!
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Country Cute Nail Art
To get this totally trendy, country cute look on your nails, follow these steps: 1. Put on a clear base coat to prevent your nails from yellowing. 2. Take pink and white nail polish (or a color of your choice that is light and cute!) and apply it to your nails (one color first, then the opposite color). 3. After the polish is dry, take a light green nail art pen, and make vertical lines and horizontal lines on each of your nails (if you need help doing your opposite writing hand, ask someone for help), and voila! You now have a cute country plaid design!nail art!
i love nail art pens! today, i painted my nails. i did splatter paint nails and they look sooo cool! :)hawian flowers!
How about painting a nice tuquoise colour and putting on top nice red Hawian flowers.Hope you like it!school nails
what i have on my nails right now is a school themed polish. what u do is a white color polish.(let dry) then, on top of that, do horizantal blue stripes. to do that i use a tooth pick or a skewer. then, on top of THAT, (also with toothpick or skewer) writh an A+ with red. hope you like it!Nail Biting?
I have a horrid habit of biting my nails. I’m getting braces the day after tomorrow and it’s not good to bite your nails with braces…you can break the wire or slow the process. So, I’m asking for some tips to stop. I just gave myself a french manicure hoping it will help for a while. Any other tips?horrid tastes!
I used to have the same problem. what I did, was i would wear really bad tasting nail polish, so when you bite ur nails it’ll taste bad and you’ll take ur fingers out of ur mouth. hope this helps, and i hope it isn’t to late!nails
well ive tried! doesnt work for me… heheheTie-Dye and News Paper Nails
Tie-Dye-EX:1.paint nails pink 2.get about 5 other pink nail polishes abou the same color 3.put sploches of the pink nail polishes on ur finger nail and TADA u hav Tie-Dye nails!!!! News-Paper nails-EX:1.paint nails white 2.dip nails in rubbing alcohol for 5 seconds 3.cut small words from a news paper a little bigger than ur nail (u shud do this b4 u paint ur nails:)4. stick the piece of paper to ur nail for 15 sec and peel of! u hav the coolest nails in town!!!!Cool!
This is cool! I’m going to try this! For the Tie-Dye, couldn’t you use any color except pink?Nail Art...
One rule:go creative and have fun!!!Good Job!
I love nail art. It makes designs way easier to do. By the way, I love this article! :)French nail
Okay here is a design: How about creating a french tip and then you can take the nail art pens and be creative and add in to the french tip. My idea for this: you can make flowers or hearts, or even stars. Tip: when doing your left hand(if you right with your right hand) try holding your breath to make your hand steady.thanks
i love this arcticleChipping
If u don’t want ur nails 2 chip put on a top coat so ur nails don’t chip and then they are shiny 2!!!!!!:):):) B careful cuz if u go in a pool 4 2 long they mite start to chip and the top coat may ware off:(:(:(Nail art
I love nail art because you can do a whole bunch of diffrent desighns.nail art!!!<3
I like to write 5 letter words on my fingernails! It looks so cute!!Nail art is cool
I have 3 nail art pens and I have lots of colors almost all of the colors!I LOVE nail polish!!
I love doing my nails with my friends while talking about our feelings. it is SOO much fun!!sally hansen nail arts
i LOVE doing nail arts w my friends but none of us are really good at it (lol) thats y we like the new sally hansen peel and stick nai arts! they sooo easy and come in tons of colors and paterns!How do you stop chipping
How do you stop chipping nail polish?top coat
apply a top coat to your nails then they are chip free :DNail Art is Beautiful
I think that it is so beautiful. Sadly, I can’t do it. I chew my nails (so does my best friend). They are so short, and it’s such a habit, I just cannot stop. I think long nails are adorable, but I can never get mine that long until I chew them off!To stop chewing on your nails
To stop chewing on your nails get this clear nail polish. You paint it on your nails so that when you try to chew them it will taste horrible (avalible at drugstores). I had that same habbit. after i used this it really helped me breack this habbit.me too!!!
i also had that prob and i did the same thing. it really works and i recommend it to everyone with nail biting probs.nail bitting
thanks ill have to try that.embarrassing nail problem
I LOVE LOVE LOVE nail polish but now my nail are stained yellow! I have decided to not paint my nails until the yellow goes away, but I LOVE nail polish! Any advice? I don’t feel like talking about this face to face cuz it’s embarrassing!Yellow Nails
Once the yellow goes away, put on base coat (you can get this at a drugstore) before you put on nail color.Don't Worry it's Normal
Your nails turned yellow because the paint blocked light from reaching them. The light keeps them clear. It happens when you wear nail polish and is completely normal! :)i love doing my nails french
i love doing my nails french style yo!!Cool
I want to make my nails look like fireworks. It’s pretty cool looking!how to...
if you want to have fireworks on your nails, just do strait lines of dots that are intersecting and different colors. hope this helps!my fav nail design
I like my nail done the french way with nice flowers on it!!!!ok......
their ok but when i got one it dried up really fast . i would use glue on nails there are lots of cool designz.Flowers
A simple and beautiful design for your nails is none other than flowers! Just put a dot on your nails snd do 5 more dots around the first dot in a different color. Then use a thin nail brush to draw a stem and leaves and voila your very own nail design.Candy Canes
My friend made her nails look like candy canes around Christmas-time! She painted her nails red and used a white nail art pen to make stripes across each nail! It looked like she got them done in a salon, but she didn’t!I Heart Nails
Paint your nails white and use a toothpick to put on thin blue lines, like on notebook paper. Then, in red polish, write a big A+ in the middle of the nail. Look! You have school nails!FANTASTIC screen name!
I am in LOVE with your screen name! Great Choice!lol
lol that was random! :)couldn't resitst!!
I just couldn’t resist! Anyway, it is awesome!ZEBRA
i would put zebra stripes I <3 ZebraI do my nails zebra striped
I do my nails zebra striped 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My room is zebra!!!Okay
They are okay. They burst if you press too hard. Use regular brush and it looks way cuter on your toenails. Try ladybugs and bubble bees and dice. Dice looks awesome on toes!okay, i guess
these pens are not my favorite way 2 do nail art. i use thin-brushed nail polish and it works soooooooooo much better. the nail pens dry out when u wash your hands.Colorful
I love the thin brushed nail polish too but I can’t draw that good on my nails with them!Where to find
I live overseas and only come to America 2 times a year, and I am always looking for thin brushed nail polish! Which stores have it? Thanksthin brush
Now you can find them anywhere. And they don’t have thin brushes overseas?Try Smaller Brands
I went to Walmart and found some Crayola nail art pens. Don’t think that they’re gonna be lame cause they’re Crayola cause these are made especially for tween girls and are easy to use. My favorite is hot pinkhot pink
i love hot pink too!HOT PINK!!
i luv hot pink 2!!Try nail decals...
This comment is for all the girls out there who want cool paterns on they’re nails but nail art pens wont work. Try nail decals I use them all the time & recomend them. Here’s how they work: First pull a decal off the pad then apply to your nail once on nail brush a coat of clear nail polish over the decal let dry & ta-da patern pretty nails! -Best wishes always Lilly:)