Hello
there lovely readers!
On
the hunt for some nail-spiration recently I found myself looking at
different types of stained glass nail art looks as its a design I've
been wanting to try for ages. After having a play this is the
finished look I came up with
Rather
than using foils or shards that everyone's been going gaga over, which does indeed look fabularse & I do wish to try at
some point, I instead wanted to create a vibrant block colour design
using cream polishes & for this I reached for some of my
favourite True Brit London shades to achieve it.
Creating
this look is super easy too & to show you how you can create
these yourself I've done a step by step pictorial showing each of the
stages for you to get your stained glass look nails!
Start
off with your base colour, as mentioned I've used only True Brit
London polishes to create this look, here I've used The Summer House
which is the perfect nude creme.
Next
grabbing a nail art pen in black or a thin brush with some black
polish, apply a thin black outline along the edge of the nail.
Now,
still using your brush & black polish, apply two small angled
lines on the tip end of the nail, coming to meet in the middle in a
triangle shape.
Then
from the top point, continue with the black line, going in both
directions to the bottom end of the nail, so you have a cross design
that is longer on the top & shorter at the bottom like shown.
On
the larger side of your cross, add on two more angled lines inside
the space, meeting in a point at the cuticle like shown. This is your
stencil for the stained glass design & its in all the triangle
spaces you've just created where we can start adding some colour!
Starting
with the pretty purple toned pink True Brit London 'Coat Of Arms', I
used a thin nail art brush to apply the polish into the two side
triangles
Next
I reached for the beautiful baby blue creme by True Brit London
'British Blue' & applied this shade in the two bottom triangles
Finally
I used pretty red True Brit London 'Portobello' to fill in the
centre triangle, leaving the tip alone as I still wanted some of that
lovely nude to show. For a final touch I add on a pretty glass
rhinestone which I felt really enhanced the stained glass look!
Once
you filled in all your colours, its time to just go over the black
lines one more time, as some of the coloured polish may go over &
you want that neat sharp finish.
Leave
to dry for a few minutes before sealing with topcoat to avoid your
black polish dragging & ruining all your work, which as you can see
I was STILL a bit impatient with (whoopsie) & you're done!
Hope
you like this design dolls, I definitely want to try using foils or
shimmers for a true stained glass look next time! FYI you can get 10%
off True Brit London polishes using my code TRULY10 ;) Thanks as
always for reading!
Lotsa love to ya!
