My Nail Art Designs & Tutorials | Cookie Bow



1. Valentine's Day

2. Leopard print

3. Scary spider webs



4. At last it's Autumn

5. Playing with pastel

 Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog!

As you can probably tell from the photos above I am going to be telling you about all my previous nail art designs. I'm also going to do a mini tutorial on how to get the different nail designs. Let's get started...

1. Valentine's Day

I am pretty sure that I did this design in February half term and was a Valentine's themed look. On my other hand I did hearts with a dotting tool but it was a bit messy so I decided to show the other design. The nail polishes I used were Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine in Grapefruit and Barry M  nail paint in Matt White. Here is a mini tutorial:

You will need:

• Bright pink nail polish
• White nail polish
• Nail vinyls or thin tape
• Dotting tool

All you need to do is apply white varnish to all your nails and wait for that to dry. Then stick the small vinyl strips down horizontally across the nail on your thumb, middle finger and little finger. After that take the pink polish and paint over the vinyls and then strip the vinyls off your nail carefully (you should see white stripes). On the remaining two fingers dip your dotting tool in a blob of the pink polish and paint dots in a straight line up your nail until you reach the edge.

2. Leopard print

So this design was pretty tricky but I had seen it on Instagram and I really wanted to give it a go. I used the same nail polishes from the last design and also a random unbranded black nail polish. Here is the tutorial:

You will need:

• Bright nail polish for the base (pink, yellow or blue I recommend)
• White nail polish
• Black nail polish
• Dotting tool with a small end

Paint all your nails a bright base colour then when that's dry get a small amount of white nail polish and dot it around your nails in a fairly regular pattern. Once that's dry take the small end of the dotting tool, dip it in a blob of black polish and go around the sides of the white splodges lightly. And voila, leopard print nails!

3. Scary spider webs

As you can probably tell this design was for Halloween and it may look tricky but once you know how to draw a spider web it's fine! I used a Barry M black nail art pen, Barry M nail paint in Matt White and the Rimmel Rita Ora 60 seconds polish in Orgasm.

You will need:

• Bright orange nail polish for the base
• Black nail art pen (not too thick)

Paint your nails orange and wait for that to dry. Explaining how to draw a spider web would take me foreverrrr so take a look at my design and try to copy or watch a YouTube tutorial. But anyway, try to keep both hands still as possible and draw the spider web design carefully onto each nail.

4. At last it's Autumn

This design is pretty simple and perfect for the Autumn season I think. This kind of nail art is great for beginners. I used the same orange colour as in my last design and the Barry M nail paint in Matt White. Here is a mini tutorial:

You will need:

• Deep orange nail polish
• White nail polish
• Nail vinyls or thin tape
• Dotting tool

First paint each nail in a deep orange shade and wait for that to dry. Then place two nail vinyls horizontally across your ring finger and fill the space between the vinyls with white nail polish. Then do the same with your index finger but place the vinyls vertically. Once you've filled that nail in strip the vinyls off both your nails. Hopefully, you should see two bold stripes. On the remaining nails dip your dotting tool in white polish and do a basic polkadot pattern evenly across each nail.

5. Playing with pastels

This is a super basic design which is really suitable for Spring and Summer. I really like this colour combination of the Barry M nail paint in Mint Green and the Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine in Fondant. Here is a tutorial:

You will need:

• Pastel purple nail polish
• Light mint nail polish

There's not many steps to it really, just paint each nail and alternate between the two colours (purple, mint, purple, mint, purple) - easy!

I hope you liked this blog post and if you try any designs out please let me know in the comments:)
See you in my next blog post...

Cookie Bow (Jess) x