Easy Mermaid Nails

Total Time: 30 minutes

Yield: 1 beautiful full manicure

Supplies:

• 2-3 nail polish colors - I chose white base and black and blue for scales.
• 1 piece of level sponge, not super porous
• 1 piece of flexible netting like some windscreen or a garlic bag

Steps:

1. Paint your nails with your base colour.

 
2. Dab on a bit of your fish scale colours onto the sponge. Let sit for 10 seconds as not to be too wet.

 
3. Firmly wrap your netting around one fingernail and gently press your painted sponge down onto the netting and dab.

 
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4. Lift netting off nail carefully and move on to next nail. I got about 3 nails per painted sponge.

 
5. You can just keep painting on top of the same painted sponge over and over when doing the rest of your nails.

 
6. If necessary, dip a Q-tip into nail polish remover and clean around the nail.

 

Judy
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March 24, 20160 found this helpful

This looks so professional!

attosa
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March 27, 20160 found this helpful

Thanks Judy! I was super pleased how these turned out with windscreen scraps. I usually use garlic bags. :)

Diane

April 11, 20160 found this helpful

This looks great, and you made it look easy! I will sure give this a try!