Checked nails

These are quite easy to do, but you do need to buy some nail stripe strips to make it a simple and quick beauty task.  If you can’t get them locally, you can buy them online from any nail accessories/beauty web-store.

You can try with bits and bobs you find around the home, but they won’t stay in place. (I know because I tried with cotton thread and that didn’t work at all!) Nail accessory stripe-strips are specially treated to make them lie flat and still on nails while you paint over them.

How to do checked nails

1. Start with a matte white base on your nails.  (Matte polish always dries faster than other types and peels less.)
2. When the white nail polish has dried, place the special striping tapes on your nails using eyebrow tweezers in a horizontal and vertical checked pattern.
3. Next apply the colour of your choice on top.
4. Finally, remove the strips to reveal a fabulous geometric pattern on your nails.
5. Wait until the varnish is dry and then seal with top coat.

This quick and clear video demo shows how to do a super-trendy ombré colour on your checked nails, too!

Checked Ombré Nail Polish Designs

Pink, black and silver-glitter nail design

Here’s another great new look that caught my eye today.

1. Prepare your nails with a base coat and then apply pink nail polish.
2. Then you need to draw on a black tip which actually reaches half-way down the nail.
3. So you can either do this with a black felt-tip pen or with black nail polish and a fine-tip brush.
4. Fill in the black shape and leave to dry.
5. Next layer up the glamour factor with a few silver dots in the black section.

You can use a plastic tipped bobby-pin or a wooden toothpick as your DIY dotting tool.

1. And finally, take a toothpick or fine-tip brush and apply a fine line of glittery silver polish around the curved black edge, where it joins the pink section. Leave to dry.
2. Seal with a top coat and that’s it!

Watch the video demonstration here:

Easy Beginners’ Nail Designs for Short Nails

I’ve done this look today, but with a red base colour, black tips and gold dots and glitter and I love it!

Hope you have fun with these new looks!

And here are 10 cute nail designs, enjoy.