Argyle Nails

I am going to show you a little nail art that I did on my sister recently. I seen a tutorial of argyle nails online and thought I would give it a try. I will admit that I was totally wishing my new brushes had arrived for this cause I think it would have turned out better with neater, cleaner lines and would have probably been easier to use the appropriate sized brushes for this. I had to make due with what I had on hand. This is also my first ever attempt at something like this so I was quite pleased with the results considering.


I started out with a base of Zoya Carmen and let it dry.

Then using a striping brush I made an "X" on the nail and filled in the top and bottom triangles. I used Zoya Purity for this step.

Then once the white was dry I used that same striping brush (after cleaning it of course) to paint 4 diagonal lines as you see here. I used Zoya Raven for this step.

Then once it was all dry I topped it all off with a coat of Out The Door to add shine and protection. I think considering this was my first ever attempt and it was about 10pm by the time we finished (we got started pretty late and of course there was dry time in between steps) this turned out pretty cute. I am totally going to try this again and I'm so happy my sister loved her nails (she had a date the next night so now she added fabulous nails to what I'm sure was a fabulous outfit for her date)! :)