Beauty DIY: Chevron Nails

I have a nail polish fetish, as we all learned when I made shelving units, exclusively for nail polish. 

Hold up. I know you are wondering where I have been for the past few days. 

I had the flu. It sucked. It's over. I'm back.

Stop distracting meeeeeeeeee. 

I did some nail art and got lots o' happy compliments so I decided to give you a happy lil' tutorial. 

See happy nails (and sad, sad cuticles):

Supplies:

1. Painter's tape from Michael's.

2. Pinking shears from Purl Soho. 

3. Assorted nail polishes. (I ended up using Essie Mint Candy Apple and Zoya Bevin.)

Step 1:

Start with clean, dry nails. 

Step 2:

Paint two coats of your base color. Let dry ALL the way. None of that "it's almost dry" dry business. 

Srsly. 

Learn from my mistakes.  

Step  3:

Use the pinking shears to cut very thin zigzag strips of painter's tape. 

Step 4:

Tape the zigzag strips on your nails in your desired pattern. 

Step 5:

Paint over the tape with your second polish color. 

Step 6:

Remove tape. 

Fun times.

Hey, New Yorkers! Enjoy the summer-like weather hitting us this weekend! 

Boom boom boom. 

Bye.