Paris Inspired Nails

Hi There

Today I have been inspired by the romantic city of Paris for my nail design

Let's get started 

Here are the materials I used 

So from left to right as usual Gelish gel polish in The Big Chill, Gelish Matte Top It Off, Creative Shop stamper and scraper, China Glaze Adventure Red-y, Kiko black polish 275, Magpie Dust in Tiara, Glitter from The Nail Team in Crystal Shine, Gelish Top It Off, home made water transfers, Born Pretty nail plate number BP36, Messy Mansion nail plate number MM06 and Chez Delaney Roses 001 plate.

If you are doing this design on your natural nails be sure to use the Gelish Foundation base coat before you start. As I was painting straight onto acrylic enhancements I just started with the colour and I applied 3 coats of Gelish The Big Chill on all my nails.

Before starting my nails I made some water decals using water decal paper and google and used a picture of the Eiffel Tower. I put this in water or about 20-30 seconds and then peeled the design off the backing paper and stuck it onto my ring finger.

As you can see there are a few wrinkles in the design try to smooth these out.
Next I did my little fingers, I used a glitter brush to add the Crystal Shine glitter to my nails

 I then turned to my middle fingers and I used Magpie Dust in Tiara and a glitter brush to add the dust. This is why I love using gel polish it allows glitter and powders to stick to it using the tacky layer so that you don't have to worry about smudging your design like what sometimes happens with normal polish.

 

 Now that all your nails are painted and decorated use Gelish Matte Top It Off on your ring finger and normal Gelish Top It off on all the other nails.

Now is where all the fun starts I decided to do a rose decal for the ring finger. I used Chez Delaney plate Roses 001 plate and did the advanced stamping technique to do the rose. I stamped the design in Black Kiko polish 275 and coloured in the rose using China Glaze Adventure Red-y

 Next I used Messy Mansion plate MM06 and used the Ooh La La design which I stamped in Kiko black polish 275 and stamped this on the side of the Eiffel Tower. Last but not least I used my Born Pretty BP36 plate and used the Paris Je t'aime design and stamped this onto my middle finger using Kiko balck polish 275. When you have finished add another coat of Matte Gelish Top It Off to the ring finger and normal top it off to your other fingers to seal in your stamped design.

This is the finished design. I am so happy with the way it turned out

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

Thank you for reading

Yvonne xx