Talon-Tastic Thursday: Nude And Neon Tribal

If I could only bring one piece of nail art kit to a desert island, I think I'd grab one of my black nail art pens. There's no question that they get the most use of all my tools and I think I've gone through 3 of them in the past 18 months or so. They're pretty versatile: off the top of my head, I can tell you that I use them for tribal prints, leopard print, zebra/tiger stripes, polka dots, lettering, and graphic illustrations as well as outline detailing, which really helps to make designs pop.

Most recently, I used one for a simple tribal manicure on nude and neon nails.

How to?

I started with a base coat of CND Stickey before applying two coats of Topshop Mannequin (£5/€9), which gives me dead hand syndrome if I wear it alone but looks like my perfect nude under nail art.

For the tribal print, I first drew a horizontal line across the centre of the nail to divide it in half. Then I divided each half into thirds by adding two equidistant horizontal lines on each side before doodling on some detail and painting the tips with Angelica Hip Hop (£2.50/€2.75 from Primark/Penneys.) Like all neons, this one is a bee-atch to photograph accurately; the bottle colour actually gives the best representation of how the vibrant pinky orange of Hip Hop looks In Real Life.

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