Chevron and Zig Zag Mani

Hello Everyone :)

I was lucky enough to win a giveaway on Instagram hosted by Nailstickrs two weeks ago. I won a set of their Criss Cross stickers and they sent me a bunch of their awesome nail vinyls too so I just had to make a quick tutorial for you guys the vinyls. Nailstickrs have a giveaway every week on Instagram so go follow them and enter and give yourself chance to win some of their awesome stickers! You can visit their online shop here. Their vinyls are so easy to use, their shipping is super quick and their prices are very reasonable so do yourself a favour and check them out and see their other fun designs!
I will post the links to everyone's Instagram at the end.

Okay, onto the tutorial :)

What you need: Base coat, top coat, 5 colours (2 for base colours and 3 for your chevron and zig zag colours) chevron and zig zag nail vinyls, tweezers.

Start off with painting on your clear base coat, once that's dry you're going to paint on your two base colours. The mint colour I used is Essence Cosmetics number 146 That's What I Mint and the sparkly, holographic silver glitter polish is one of my favourite polishes at the moment, it's from Painted Polish and it is called Drunk On Holo.

 

Once your base colours are completely dry, you can create your designs with your nail vinyls. Your base colours must be 100% dry otherwise you will peel it off and ruin your mani when you peel the vinyls off. Apply 2 of your chevron vinyls to your index, middle and pinky finger nails, spacing them evenly apart. Next apply 3 of your zig zag vinyls to your ring finger nail, again spacing them evenly. I like to use tweezers to position the vinyls on my nail as I feel it gives me more control. You can find the chevron vinyls here, they call them their "V Design" and their zig zag vinyls here.

 

 

Now you're going to paint on your chevron and zig zags. I find when you're using more than one colour it's best to start at the top and work your way down, removing the vinyls as you go. In this mani, for example, I painted the blue on the top, then the holo purple in the middle and then removed the first vinyl, then I painted the blue on the bottom and removed the second vinyl. Doing it like this allows for less drying time which means that you are less likely to have your wet polish lifted up when you remove the vinyls. When doing one colour, like I did on my ring finger, simply paint your entire nail and quickly remove the vinyls. I like to use my tweezers to remove the vinyls as it is easier to pick up the edges and it also stops you from getting the wet polish all over your fingers.

 

The blue polish that I used is Essence Cosmetics number 173 Over The Rainbow and the holographic magenta polish in the middle is Wyld Pixie from Liquid Sky Lacquer. The Purple on my ring finger is O.P.I a Grape Fit

 

Once you have completed all your nails and removed all your vinyls, allow the polish to dry completely and then paint on your top coat. I used my favourite top coat from Krafty Gurl Designs, her Gloss It Top Coat,.

 

Allow your top coat to dry and you are done!

 

Remember that you can follow me on Instagram @the_beauty_bag and if you recreate any of the mani's posted on the blog, hashtag them with #lookbeautybag so I can see them :)

I hope you all enjoyed this tutorial and I can't wait to see your recreations:)

 

Ash xxx

Instagram Links:

Nailstickrs : @nailstickrs
Painted Polish: @paintedpolishbylexi
Essence Cosmetics: @essence_cosmetics
Liquid Sky Lacquer: @whimsicalcolor
Krafty Gurl Designs: @kraftygurldesigns

 

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