We all remember my last horrible-melted-ice-cream-nail-art-attempt, right? Well, wanted to come up with some ideas that even I can do, and I wanted something simple. I haven’t any particular sources of inspiration, but many of the nail art tutorials on youtube do something similar (they usually add more fancy stuff on top, though). I’ve used two coats of OPI’s Nail Envy as a base – more on that in a later post! – but you could naturally do this on top of a coloured polish. A dark brown looks fantastic!

1. Make sure there is just a tiny amount of polish on the brush. Start at the tip of the nail, and brush with a light hand towards the cuticle. Try not to get any glitter on the bottom half of the nail, and make the transition gradual. The first coat should be thin, then do a second one to make the gold less transparent on the tip.

2. Cover the entire nail in two layers of gold. Yeah, I ran out of ideas, but it’s nice and sparkly, don’t you think?

3. A very easy French Manicure, where the tip is gold and the rest is kept au naturel (almost). I didn’t even use tape or anything to keep the edges nice – since the glitter polish is transparent and the Depend brush is rather tiny it was easy enough to do. Two layers makes the glitter more opaque.

4. A reversed version of number one. Do exactly the same, only make the gold “pour” from the cuticle, not the tip of the nail.

5. A reversed version of number three. I covered the entire nail in glitter, except for the white tip, which I left bare. Again, I did this without tape or anything, and two layers of the glitter polish will give you the best result.

I’d normally pick only one version and do it on all nails, of course; I did one on each finger just to show you the different varieties.

Which one is your favourite?