4th of July Nail Art

My nails have been extremely weak lately; breaking, bending, and such. Finally figured out the probable cause, a med I had been taking for a couple months. Which is why my nails are so short right now, I had to do a cut down because of a multiple breaks. Hopefully it'll work it's way out of my system soon. Until then, I'll just have to deal and patch them when I can.

Anywho, onto the pretty, pretty nail art. It being the 4th of July week, I just had to do a 4th of July nail art.

For this nail art I used:
Jordana - White
Sally Hansen - Gem-stone
Wet n Wild - The Star of the Show
Acrylic Paint - White, Red
Thin nail art/paint brushes
Toothpick
Base and top coat polishes

To do this nail art:
To start, I applied a base coat and waited for it to dry. I then painted 3 coats of the Jordana White to all my fingers except the middle finger. On my middle finger, I painted 2 coats of the Sally Hansen Gem-stone. Then, I took a nail art brush and using the Sally Hansen Gem-stone, I drew half circles on about half of my pointer and ring fingernails. Because I don't have any loose star shaped glitter, I used Wet n Wild The Star of the Show and placed the stars on with a toothpick. Placing them onto my pointer, middle, and ring fingers. Next, I took a thin nail art brush and red paint and painted on the red strips to the areas on my nails with the white polish. A steady hand is somewhat mandatory, which I don't exactly have. I did go back with white paint and try and tidy up the lines. I then applied a couple coats of a top coat to finish off and to smooth out the glitter. That's it!

Besides trying to get the red stripes straight, this is an easy nail art. It's bought a smile to everyone that's seen it and keeps drawing my own eyes to admire the prettiness. A nice thing about this also, is a lot of items could be substituted. Instead of paint you could use a red striper polish (none of mine were the color I was looking for) and of course if you can find loose star glitter you can use that instead.

I'm happy with this though, it's exactly how I pictured it in my head. I do plan to get out at least one more nail art for the 4th, so please keep an eye out for it!