DIY Chevron Nails

Recently, I've been seeing a lot of chevron patterns in various DIY videos and posts whether its been used to decorate the front of a notebook or a pen pot or a picture frame or anything that may need decorating really. And as this pattern, style, whatever you want to call it, has become quite popular, I thought I'd share with you my take on a chevron nails tutorial. Its super simple and easy and you don't need to be a grade A nail artist or have loads of nail polishing experience to be able to do this look perfectly. Hey, let's face it, if I can do it, you can do it, a snail or some other limbless animal could probably do it if they tried hard enough. What I'm trying to say is, its easy. Okay? Okay.

All you are going to need is:

~ Two different brightly coloured nail polishes ~

~ A clear top coat nail polish ~

~ Some tape ~

~ A knife, preferably a craft knife, but a small kitchen knife will do ~

~ Tweezers (optional) ~

I've chosen to use a blue nail polish and a pink nail polish because they're pretty contrasting which means they compliment each other well and bring out the colours and stuff... I'm not the best at art theory. Anyway I chose these colours. The nail polish itself isn't anything too special: I got them both in a set of three from a friend for my birthday. The other colour is a pretty average purple, if you were wondering. The brand is S&C, which I've never heard of before, but the nail polish, although its quite thin and may take two coats, stays on well and spreads nice and evenly, plus it doesn't make your nails feel like they are wearing like a tone of nail polish. And they come with little charms around them! How cute? Very cute.

So to start off with you're going to want to paint one regular base coat in your first colour. I'm starting off with the blue but it really doesn't make much of a difference which colour you decide to begin with. If the colour is a bit transparent, feel free to go over it again with another coat, but it shouldn't matter too much as half of this base colour will be covered up.

Once the coat is pretty much dry and to the opacity that you are happy with, start cutting out little strips of tape with your knife that are about two or three millimetres wide and at least ten millimetres long. You'll need quite a few of these, but you can make them as you go along and when you need them.

Arrange four of the tape strips into two arrow formations on your desired nail, pointing up to the tip of your finger. Make sure you have a tail to your tape strips so that you can easily remove them later.

Once your four strips are stuck down in the chevron arrow formation thing, take your second colour, in my case the pink, and paint over the nail, including the tape, until you are happy that the whole nail is this colour.

Wait for the second colour to dry. Once it is completely ready, carefully peel off the strips of tape. Your nail should now look something like this:

Repeat these steps for all of your nails or for as many nails as you want, and then go over ever nail with a clear top coat. I'm using the Rimmel London Finishing Touch Ultra Shine Top Coat. I love using this top coat, mainly because the brush is so wide and flat, so it only take the minimal amount of brushes to cover the whole nail. It also does a really good job of protecting the nail art.

And there you have it! DIY chevron nails! I hope you liked this tutorial, and I'd love to see your takes on it.

Lots of love

Lyllie

xoxo