Now this is a super-easy, super-fast way to dress up your nails for a special event! Who doesn’t love a high-impact, easy-to-execute nail project? Fashion and beauty (me included) are having a love affair with pastels lately, so I decided to create a pretty little pastel manicure.
You will need:
* Five different pastel nail polishes
* Nail polish remover
* A Q-Tip to tidy with
* Clear top coat to finish
If you don’t have five pastel nail polishes (I didn’t, I only had four) but you’ve got a colour that’s close, add a bit of white nail lacquer to the polish and mix until it’s more pastelly. I mixed mine in the metal container from a tealight candle!
The colours I used were:
* Revlon Top Speed Pink Lingerie
* Revlon Blue Lagoon
* Sportsgirl Lace
* A peachy coloured Miki Mini (9155), and
* Revlon Top Speed Electric (which is a yellow that was far too bright, so I added some Face of Australia Cool Cotton to mix it up into a pretty pastel yellow)
Paint each nail a different colour. If you’ve got two colours that are similar, (for example: I had a pink and a peach) separate them. I put the pink on my pinkie and the peach on my thumbnail. Then tidy any messy over-paint on your fingers or nail bed with a nail polish remover-soaked Q-tip and finish with a clear top coat for long wearing pastel goodness. And voila!
Have you got a great easy-peasy way to dress up your nails? Please share!
Love,
Rosie xox
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gorgeous Rosie!! xx
Thanks Tegan! xx
Love this!! Even I could do this…I think!! xx
Absolutely! Soooo easy peasy. It would look great on you Sonia xx
Great idea about mixing polishes to make other colours! Never thought to do that before. I did pastels like this on my toes last week
Hah! Thanks, it never occured to me either until I needed a lemon coloured polish until I realised I didn’t have one. It was actually really easy to do, especially if you have a really great strong white like the FOA Cool Cotton. Ooh pretty! Where are the pics? I want to stalk your pastel toes
Do you ever stop girl?!! Backstage at MBFWA blog posts, work, twitter, Instagram.. You must be exhausted! Love these nails so feminine and pretty they remind me of sugared almonds, but nails. Hehe
Sugared almonds definitely! Or Easter eggs… that’s what they reminded me of! Haha, I do stop. Sometimes. But only on rare occasions and not for very long! xxx
Gorgeous, lady! I absolutely love the mix of colours. Still can’t believe I didn’t realise this was you, haha!
Thanks Hannah! It made my day when you realised it was me though, hahah. Very cool
Ohhh so pretty! I love this look – so delicate and feminine xx
Why thank you! I love the complementing pastel colours too. They reminded me of sweet little easter eggs. Very fun to do too xx
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This pastel manicure looks so pretty! Great idea you had there!
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