Pop Art Manicures In 3 Easy Steps

Nail art is huge these days. My friend Shawna has actual nail art tools that she uses to whip up fantastic designs on manicures she gives her daughter.

Shawna is artistic and amazingly calm under pressure, even the worst kind, i.e. 5 year old-with-wet-nail-polish-bouncing-around-upholstery pressure.

I am not terribly artistic or amazingly calm under pressure. But I just read about a fancy manicure that even someone like me can do. Am pretty sure I’m going to nab “mom of the year” with this one, or at least “manicurist mom of the year”.

Here’s what you do for the coolest, pop art manicure ever:

1.      Paint nails a base shade of gray. Let them dry. (They've gotta be totally dry or else the ink from Step 2 won't adhere.)

2.    Bust out your Sharpie markers. (What house-with-kids doesn't have tons of these?) Make sure you get the thin point ones and choose 3 colors – like purple, green and red.

 

3.    Draw squiggly lines down the center of each nail.

 

Presto! Nail art as cool as Rihanna’s with nary a smudge or extra tool to lose. Ingenius! With a thin point Sharpie marker I could do all kinds of great manicures. I could do dog, rainbow, even Minion manicures. The sky’s the limit! (The 10 year old also tells me that cool polka dots can be created using the tip of a bobby pin dipped in polish.)

 

What if you don’t have daughters to experiment on? A package of these low tech manicure tools would make a rockin’ gift for any little girls in your life if you want to cement your cool auntie rep.

 

Happy manicures, guru girls!