This video is really helpful if you don't have a striper! Or need a thin brush for different colours!

Cutepolish Striper

Hope its useful!

Louisa

Panda!

This is a simple and easy and fast design. Its cute and fun to wear! The panda manicure! I did this on my sisters nails that are really short so good news all you nail biters!

First do your base coat, because your whole nail isn't covered in this design it gives it a nice shine.

Then make semi circles at the bottom of your nails leaving room above for ears!

Now on each side of the head add two small black semi circles and fill them in. do this with the striper.

Now add a tiny pick dot at the bottom this is his nose!

With a dotting tool or make up brush make two black dots for the eyes

Once they are dry add white spots on top of those.

And then tiny black spots in those for pupils!

And now your done! Enjoy the pandas! coming next is a cute heart design!

Giraffe!

I have seen a few nail designs that use all the nails to make up one picture and thought I might give it a go. Behold the giraffe!

To create this simple design you will need a blue, yellow and orange. and white And then a black striper also a dotting tool would be good or do what I did and use the end of a make up brush!

First paint your nails two coats of blue

I used 17 fast finish in catwalk couture, which has a tint sparkle to it, I love it! also it dries in around 60 seconds!

Then with the yellow make bands of the same size and preferably width 

across the middle of your fingers but not the thumb. 

This will be the neck.

Then for the thumbpaint a thinner line then the neck but still in the same place, 

curve it round to make the top of the head and make the front of the

 face and join it back up to the neck and fill it in.

Now take a bit of scrap paper and put some orange varnish on it and use your dotting tool to make the 'splodges' on its neck and a few on the face.

Sorry that photo isnt great!

Now use the orange to fill in the 'snout' section of the face.

Now use your dotting tool in the white and out on two dots for eyes, then once dry put a black dot in the middle of those. and add little black dots on the nose for nostrils.

And now you are finished add your top coat and let it dry to protect your design! Next time it's pandas!!

Socks!

This is my take on cute-polish  most recent design. Its a popular sock and jumper pattern that you can now wear on your nails!

Firstly you need two pairs of complimentary colours  one base and one as a striper, and a base coat and a white striper. I went for pink and blue.

Firstly we need a coat of clear base coat. Then two coats of blue.

This is then followed by two coats of pink in the thumb and ring finger.

Now on the blue fingers make large X's like so.

Now do the same with your pink striper

Fill in the trinages created at the top and bottom of the nail with the striper, do this for both nails.

Now comes the tricky part, the white lines. starting in the centre of the bottom triangle paint up to the tp of the right hand side triangle. 

Repeat this at the top of the nail, so that it looks like this across all nails.

Taaa Daaaa!!!!!! Now your all done, neaten the edges with a Q-Tip dipped in nail varnish remover. 

Done!!