The Makeup Box

Butterfly Blues: Blue Foiled Monarch Butterfly Manicure (plus tips for nail foiling)

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Foils look amazing but are hard to wear on their own (they kinda start looking raggedy within a day) but as an accent to jazz up your nail art, they’re fantastic. 

Today, I adapted an ever-popular nail art design (the Monarch butterfly) and instead of doing it in orange, I did a bright cyan blue and added a spectral effect to the “wings” with a blue holographic nail foil.

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Simple Easter French Manicure!

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A super quick tutorial for pastel Easter-themed nails that don’t take a whole lot of “expertise” to do.

You will need:

• A basic nail color, preferably pastel colored and in a creme (non-shimmery) finish
• 2 metallic acrylic paints or nail polishes
• A nail dotting tool (below) or a used-up ball point pen (make sure there is no ink left on the tip)
• A small flat paint brush

Nail polish or acrylic paint?

I do prefer acrylic paints to nail polish for detail work because you get more time before it dries, and the clean-up is SO much easier. Only water and soap needed. If you use nail polish, you’ll need to soak your brushes and dotting tools in nail polish remover.

Plus, acrylic paints are incredibly cheap. I used 2 shades from the Martha Stewart Crafts range:

• A Pearl Blue paint - “Gazing Ball”
• A Metallic Bronze - “Copper”

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