14 Easy Nail Art Designs You Can Definitely Do at Home — See Photos, Product Recommendations
There’s a good chance that every time you take a bobby pin out of your hair, you leave it on your bathroom counter, and it ends up getting knocked onto the floor, never to be seen again. Instead, pull its two prongs as far apart as you can and turn it into a makeshift nail polish dotting tool.
You can dip one of its beaded ends into your nail polish bottle until it’s lightly coated, then use that to gently place polish onto your nail dot by dot. Allure news editor Nicola Dall’Asen showed how it’s done in the photo shown above with an almond-shaped set of fake nails from Static Nails and Essie Neutrals Nail Polish in Licorice.
New York City-based nail artist Miss Pop has a similar hack for dots using a tailor’s pin. She pushes the pointed tip into an eraser for a better grip, then dips the rounded head of the pin into nail polish. She says bobby pins are effective, but her method creates bigger dots if that’s the look you’re after. “Bobby pins are cool, but they only do tiny dots,” says Miss Pop. “This will give you a real polka.”
Do not get impatient when waiting for those dots to dry, by the way. If they’re even slightly wet when you paint on your topcoat, they’ll smear everywhere and all that hard work will be ruined. This goes for all nail-art tricks in general, and that’s why you may want to consider trying fake nails. With a set of press-ons, you can paint your designs, then go about your day while they dry down. When they’re finished, just glue them on and go.
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https://www.allure.com/story/easy-nail-art-designs-at-home
