Paint Nails

How to do a Rose Using a Nail Dotter

Give yourself or your best girlfriend an artistic manicure with the shape of a rose on each nail. Perhaps you are making like Belle and want to invoke the red rose of "Beauty and the Beast" with your nails, or perhaps you want a pastel...

How to Do a Zebra Print on Your Nails With a Nail Art Pen

Show off your inner wild child with a bold and beautiful zebra print manicure. Bypass boring all-white or all-black fingernails for an attention-grabbing animal style. If you think you have to pay a visit to a costly nail salon to get the look,...

How to Do Rainbows on Your Fingernails

When you want to show off your vibrant personality, let your hands do the talking with rainbow nails. Rainbow-striped nails aren't just for kids, they're also for grown-up girls who like to let loose and have fun with their manicures. On casual...

Good Color Combinations for Accent Nails

If you're looking for a way to stand out from the crowd without making an overly bold style statement, accent nails are the way to go. To create an eye-catching accent nail, paint it in a color that complements, yet contrasts, with the rest of the...

What Color to Paint Nails for a Red Dress?

Some people just seem to know intuitively what colors go with each other. Others put together color combinations that make your head ache. No matter where you fall on the taste scale, some help in coordinating rarely hurts. If you have a red dress...

What Color to Paint Nails to Go with a Black and Gray Dress

If you're wearing a black and gray dress and looking for a shade to paint your nails, you're in luck. Since black and gray are both neutral tones, they'll work with tons of fun nail polish shades. Learn a few of them and you'll be on your way to...

How to Apply a Cream-Colored Nail Polish

Whether you're a nail polish fanatic and jump on every season's trends, or you just like to swipe on a little color now and again, applying polish the right way is a must. Cream-colored polishes need a little extra work because they tend to be...

How to Paint Your Nails Zebra Print

Animal prints add a fierce accent to anything from shoes to bags. You can quickly heat up your look when you work a little bit of wild patterning into unexpected places. What better place to start working your crafty jungle magic than on your...

How to Tie-Dye Fingernails

Tie dye is a classic fashion look that's been popular since the 1960s. While you may have put away your old tie dye T-shirts, you can still show a little bit of hippie with a tie dye manicure. Whether you've got acrylics or your own nails, create...

Should I Use Undercoat & Topcoat on Nails?

Has this ridiculously annoying scenario ever happened to you? You patiently sit through a long, involved manicure session, followed by a dutiful drying under the fan, only to smudge your newly-polished nails on the way out. The only thing worse...

Cute Ideas for Fingernails

You've come a long way, baby -- from miniature jars of Barbie-pink nail polish to regular trips to the salon for professional manicures. But straight-forward French tips can get dull after a while, so the next time you're starting with clean...

Cool Ways to Paint Nails Red, White & Blue

Sure, you can paint your nails one of the typical colors of red, pink or nude. But what fun is that when you can get really creative and do funky color combos and designs? Put your best patriotic face forward with red, white and blue fingernail...