Prom Nails!

It's my best friends prom tonight and I just got back from doing her nails. There are a few proms coming up in the next week or so and I'm wearing my nails very similar to this too. 

I apologize for the fact that I haven't taken pictures as I went but I didn't have time and was in a rush. 

What I did was bought a set of false nails and brush-on glue before measuring the nails to the size of my friends and taking notes of the little number on top which matched hers. I then went home and painted them myself before going back and sticking them on for her and painting her toes. 

This is a design that you can wear no matter what colour your dress is, simply by changing the colour you put underneath the glitter. For example, my friend's dress is lilac with silver glitter, therefore, she wanted silver with silver glitter on. Meanwhile, my dress is dark purple with beige-silver beading so I will be wearing dark purple base colour with silver glitter. 

What you will need:

1. Base coat - (Barry M Base Coat, Top Coat and Nail Hardener All In One)

2. Matte Top Coat - (Essie Matte About You)

3. Base colour for whole nail/colour of your dress - (Boudoir Beauty - Silver Shimmer)

4. Silver glitter

Step 1:

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

Step 2:

Paint the whole nail with your base colour. Here I used silver. Apply as many coats as you need for the polish to be opaque; I used two. 

Allow this to dry. 

Step 3:

Scrap most of the glitter off of the brush and graze it across the top three quarters of your nail. Allow this to dry. 

Step 4:

Again scraping most of the glitter off of the brush (leave a tiny bit more than last time), paint the top half of the nail with a second coat of glitter. Allow to dry.

Step 5:

Repeat step 4 with the top quarter of the nail. Allow to dry. 

Step 6:

Repeat step 4 for a second time with the very tip of the nail. This will give you your glitter gradient. 

Allow the whole nail to dry completely. 

Step 7:

Cover the whole nail in a matte top coat. It is very important that you get the top coat everywhere on your nails or else you will have some matte parts and some glossy parts. Allow to dry completely. 

Application of false nails

Step 8:

If you have a brush on glue, spread the glue across the nail evenly like an ordinary polish. 

If you do not, squeeze a dot of glue onto the middle of the nail and spread it evenly around the nail. 

Step 9:

Use the extension at the end of the nail to line it up correctly.

Step 10:

Squeeze on the nail hard for 5-10 seconds. 

Step 11:

Remove the extension by twisting and pulling gently. 

Step 12:

File the tip of the nail gently to get rid of any sharp edges where the extension was. 

Finished result