Galaxy nail art: An easy how to!

 

 

Hiya guys!  Happy Sunday!  Hope you are all having a great day!

 

How cool was the eclipse on Friday??  If you have me on Instagram you would have seen my photo of the eclipse.  To be honest, I was a bit scared of looking into the sky in case I ended up blinding myself, so the family and I tried to make a pinhole camera.  So the photo wasn’t really of the actual eclipse, just the image on a piece of card of the light through the pinhole…however it did show the shape!

 

 

 

 

(It’s the wee moon shape at the top left area of the photo!)

 

Anyway, being inspired by the eclipse (and the wonders of the universe and all that!) I decided to do a wee bit of nail art…starry night galaxy nails to be exact!

 

Also, I tried something new for the blog…a short little image slideshow!!  Basically a moving collection of my photographs of the process of doing the nail art.  I have posted the photographs as well, with more details about the equipment and tools I used, as well as the steps I took to create this nail art J

 

So, here goes….

 

 

 

 

 

Equipment and tools: 

 

Nail Polish:

 

 

 

·        Black (base coat)

·        White

·        Bright Pink

·        Mid Blue

·        Metallic Gold

·        Chunky Glitter (with stars!)

·        Silver Glitter

·        Clear Top Coat

 

  

Tools:

 

 

 

·        Dotting tools (for picking up glitter)

·        Tiny paintbrush (for little details)

·        Metallic silver marker pen (for extra details) 

 

 

 

 

·        Cotton buds

·        Make-up sponges

 

 

Extras:

 

 

 

·        Small paint palette (to hold nail polish – mainly for the glitter)

 

And… 

 

 

 

·         False nails (OBVIOUSLY!) 

 

 

Steps:

 

1.      Pick the sizes of false nails you need. 

 

 

 

 

2.     File off the excess at the tip of the nails.

 

 

 

 

3.     Tip for holding down each nail so you can decorate them – Blu Tack!  Take a blob of Blu Tack, put it on the underside of the nail and stick it down onto a surface.

 

 

 

 

(I used scrap paper, that way it wouldn’t matter if I made a mess as paper can be chucked in the bin when you’re finished) 

 

4.     Paint on two coats of the base colour.

 

 

 

 

5.     One colour at a time, paint a thin layer of the polish onto the cotton bud/sponge and lightly dab onto the nail.

 

 

 

 

You don’t have to put a lot of colour onto the nail as you want the base coat to still be seen.

 

 

 

 

The cotton bud will create a close together cluster of colour, because of the wool, and the sponge will create more of a sparse cluster. 

 

 

 

 

Tips:   

·         Dab off excess polish onto paper before applying to nail.

·         You don’t have to wait between the colours as they are thin layers and will dry quickly.

  

6.     Pour a bit of the chunky glitter polish onto the palette.  Using the smallest dotting tool, pick up the little bits of glitter and add them to the nail.  I also added stars to some of the nails.

 

 

 

 

 

7.     Using the silver marker pen, add extra bits of detail on the nails that need an extra bit of oomph.  

 

(This step is optional - you don’t really need this.  I just decided to add an extra bit of detail to the design.)

 

8.     For nails that need even more sparkle, dab a bit of the silver glitter polish onto the nail using the brush.

 

Tip: 

·         Wipe some of the excess off the brush first.

 

9.     Finally add a clear top coat and…ta dah!  You’re done!

 

  

 

 

 

I decided to add a wee constellation to one of the nails too, just for fun!

 

So, that’s basically all that’s needed for this nail art!  Pretty easy!!

 

Well I hope you guys enjoyed this post, and as always thank you SO much for reading!

I’ll catch you all next week for my weekly Sunday post! 

Have a fab week and take care! Xxx