4. D.I.Y. Scallop Nails

Summer time is all about the bright & bold colours, and shedding off those extra layers of clothes! I love this year's trend for colourful garments and accessories! My personal favourite clothing item this summer is definitely my red high-waisted scalloped shorts i got from urban outfitters > u< I love the colour, how the top is also scalloped, the comfy-ness, and also the fact that they aren't ultra short.

Inspired by the scallop pattern from my fav shorts and the bold contrasting colours of the summer season, i made this tutorial for scallop nails. And the scallops are facing down, but you can edit the tutorial for the scalloped pattern to go the other way... i just like it more this way ;)

Haha i apologize for the distracting yellow numbers you see
in the corners of all the following pictures. We forgot to switch
the camera's setting "> _>

What you need

• 2 nail polish colours that contrast each other (but they don't have to be... it's really up to you)
• base coat
• top coat
• a dotting tool (or i use to use the back of a pin, the ones that have the round thing on the back of it... excuse my poor explanation skills)

this is actually double ended, but you need
one that makes a big dot

From left to right, sally hansen extreme wear
sun kissed, china glaze re-fresh mint,
nail life ridge filler, seche vite top coat

Paint on your base coat to protect your nails from any stains! Trust me i happens! Once i forgot my base coat when i was using a blue nail polish and this green-ish blue stain is still on my nail >:[___]

I did this on my friend Caitlyn's nails and she prefers using a ridge filler so... yea...

Next paint on one your nail polish in the colour you want the scallop pattern in. This colour will also be the main colour on your nail.

I chose the lighter colour of the two.

Then paint on the second colour like you would paint on the white for a french manicure but a little thickr, if that makes sense... errr i kind of aimed for 1/4 to 2/5 of the nail (gahhh fractions)

the edge does NOT need to be perfect, will be covering it anyways ;)

Then with your dotting tool, or pin, or anything that can make big-ish dots.... dot along the boundary of the two colours with the main colour...

i fit 4 dots on Caitlyn's nails excluding the pinky where i fit
3 and thumb where i fit 5, if you want to know the size of the dots.

This is optional but with a smaller dotting tool or toothpick, take some of the contrasting colour and add a dot where the scallop pattern bumps up (errr.... look at the picture if you don't know what i mean... xP)

I find it easier to pour a little bit of polish onto something
else the dip into that

dot . dot . dot . o uo

Finally add a top coat to seal it of and make it shiny.

* u* shinyyy~~~

Congrats you have completed this nail tutorial o uo! Of course you can experiment with different colours and combinations! I like to add a random odd nail... so as you can see there is a nail that has the orange as the scallop colour and mint at the tips ;)

-Tiffany O uO