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Fun Nail Tricks to Try

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We use our hands all day, whether we’re animated when we speak or we’re raising our hand in class. So, why not show them off with some fun nail designs? Here, I give you some super-cute ones to try. I promise, they’re not as hard as they look! 

1. Paint your nails with a baby blue base coat, I like Essie’s “Something Borrowed and Blue”
2. After the basecoat is comletely dry, take a nail polish pen in black and make small, loopy dashes from your pinkie to your pointer finger, leaving the thumb out.
3. Use yellow, black and white paint pens to draw a bumble bee and three little dashes behind it’s stinger. 
4. Enjoy looking adorable.

This is a fun style where you paint one hand in an alternating color from the other and then do the tips in the opposite hand’s color. For best results, wait until the base coat is dry and use a small paint brush rather than the standard nail polish brush to paint on the tips. Clean up excess with a Q-tip dipped in nail polish remover. The blue and teal looks nice, but I’m dying to try it in magenta and orange! (If you’re feeling extra ambitious, you can do Blazer colors for the game.)

This is by far my favorite. Emily from cupcakesandcashmere.com shows us that it’s not as hard as it looks. 
1. Paint an apricot base coat on all nails except for the ring finger (Emily is engaged, so she likes to bling her ring finger out!)
2. Paint a clear base coat on your ringer finger, and dip it into a small pile of silver glitter (you can use any kind of craft glitter).
3. Shake off excess glitter
4. Draw varying designs with a light pink nail pen onto remaining nails. As you can see here, Emily divided her nail, did a  half moon, and little stripes.

This is probably the trickiest one, but look how cool it looks! Here’s how you do it.
1. Pick three nail polish colors in the same color family
2. Get a small bucket of water, a toothpick, and nail polish remover
3. Prep your nails by painting them white (it doesn’t have to be perfect).
4. Splash drops of the different nail polishes into the water, and swirl them together with the toothpick (don’t overstir, or it will just become one, ugly color).
5. Dip entire nail into water’s surface and cover with paint 
6. It will get all over your finger, don’t worry, that’s where the nail polish remover comes in!
7. Repeat with remaining fingers and enjoy your groovy tye-dye nails!

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Jaime Ritter

Jaime is a junior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. There she is the captain of her varsity golf team and a journalism and English double-major. She is an active member in the Student Athletic Advisory Committee where she helps organize volunteer opportunities and social functions for student-athletes at UAB. Jaime enjoys cooking, entertaining friends, reading/writing blogs, fashion, and of course, golf. She aspires to eventually write for a major magazine or write chick-lit books.