Cupcake Nails

This design would be perfect for birthdays or any other kind of celebration!

What you will need:

1. Any base coat - I don't know the name of mine and it's smudged off, oops.

2. Top coat - (Collection Lasting Colour: 2 Ice Cube)

3. Mint nail varnish - (MUA: Pistachio Ice Cream)

4. Silver striper

5. A different colour polish, I used a blue striper (optional)

6. Red polish - Mine came in a set that I can't remember the name of.

7. White polish - (Collection 5 Day Wear: 103 French White)

8. Medium dotter

9. Large dotter

10. Tiny dotter

Step 1:

Apply a base coat over the whole nail and allow it to dry completely. 

Step 2:

Starting at the tip, paint one third of the nail mint. Keep applying coats until it is opaque.

Allow to dry completely. 

Step 3:

Using a silver striper, paint silver stripes down the mint tip. Make sure you do this at regular intervals. It does not need to be neat where the mint ends as we will be painting white over this. 

Allow to dry completely. 

Step 4:

Using a large dotter, draw 3 or 4 large dots along the top of the mint tip. On top of this draw more large dots until you get a shape which looks a bit like a cloud. Make sure this is opaque with an extra coat of polish if you need to. 

Allow to dry completely.

Step 5:

With a medium dotter, place a red dot on top of the 'cloud' shape. 

Move straight on to the next step. 

Step 6 (OPTIONAL):

With a tiny dotter add lines of a different coloured polish to create sprinkles. You can use two or three different colours to do this or make them all the same colour. 

This step is optional, you could miss it out and go on to the next step. Personally, I wouldn't do this step but you can if you want to. 

Allow the whole nail to dry completely before you move on to the next step.

Step 7:

Making sure the nail is dry, add a top coat to the whole nail and leave to dry.

As you can see, the red smudged slightly because I was being impatient. Make sure your nail is dry before you add the top coat. 

How to wear:

You could wear this design for a special occasion or for every day. You can use any two colours you wish for the 'case'. 

You can either wear this cupcake on all of your nails, or you can wear it on one with the rest of your nails painted in the colours of the case. For example, mine would be like this:

Hope you have fun recreating this design. Let me know if you do!

See you next time, x