NOTD - Turquoise Chevron

I've seen these nails around pinterest quite a bit and I finally decided to try it out myself!

What I used:

Essie Protein Base Coat

Essie "Good to Go," topcoat

L'Oreal "Not a Cloud in Sight"

Sinful Colors "Snow Me White"

Expo Dry Erase marker, black

I didn't have a black nail pen or a regular fine tip marker, so I decided to just use my dry-erase marker. I mostly wanted to see if I could pull it off. I think it came out pretty ok!

My tip for...using a dry erase marker...is wait for it to dry a bit, then lightly apply a topcoat. I did this twice, as the topcoat did remove the marker very slightly.

Here's the dreaded left hand:

Not so bad!


The inspiration:

credit to: hiyapapaya.com

From the picture, you can see she used nail tape for the look. Bear me with me, because I used none!


Have you tried out chevron nails? Show me your pictures!

-Claudia

Christmas Nail Inspiration - 2012

Christmas 2012 has a lot of people upping their nail art game. My Christmas nail art can be viewed here. 

Here are some truly spectacular nail art photos. I pulled them from Instagram and Beautylish, if you'd like to look into the makers. 

So many great ideas in this one...

Click below to see more inspirational pictures!