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Star Wars: The Force Awakens nail art

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Stormtrooper, Darth Vader, R2D2, Lightsabers. Hi everyone, Star Wars the Force Awakens has finally arrived, and did not disappoint.  As is tradition, I made a movie inspired manicure. I have written the instructions in the order in which you should paint if you do the whole thing in one go.  Step 1: Paint thumbs and three nails black, two nails white, one brown and two gold. Step 2: Write Star wars on thumbs and paint half of one of the gold nails light blue. BB-8, C3PO, Chewbacca, hyperspace. Step 3: Stripes. Start by painting Chewbacca’s bandolier in silver, about 3mm pr. stripe, you can add his black boxes but I didn’t have time. Still using the silver paint the lightsaber handle. Step 4: Change to a white striper and paint the blade of the lightsaber. Continuing with the white, do the lines on the hyperspace nail, find the middle of the nail and paint lines going out, they don’t have to very precise.   Step 5: Using a large dottin...

Christmas candy cane nail art

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Hi everyone, Christmas has finally arrived and that calls for Christmas nail art. I decided to do a festive and yet minimalistic look, with French candy cane nail art. Step 1: Do a red French manicure on eight of your nails and paint the other two white. Step 2: Paint white stripes over the French mani.  Step 3: Paint a red candy cane on your white nails. Step 4: Paint white stripes on your candy cane. An optional step is to outline the whole thing in black Have a Merry Christmas