Charlie's Wonderland: Galaxy Nails Step by Step Tutorial

Monday, 7 November 2011

Galaxy Nails Step by Step Tutorial

Hi guys!

hope you are well?

Follwing my OOTD post yesterday I previewed you all my Galaxy Nails!

As promised here is the step by step tutorial of how to do them!

- Get all your colours together, try and use spacey colours, like greys blacks blues silvers and a hint of orange

- Apply your base coat

- Use a dark base coat, I used Models Own Navy

- Start sponging your other colours intop of the base coat trying to recreate a galaxy look.

- I tried to do a gradient effect on some of the nails, making them darker at the cuticle then lighter at the top.

- I used small glitter and big glitter for the stars

I have a photo tutorial here for you to try and show you how I did it, Unfortunatly its just a case of playing around and seeing what you come up with! the thing I love about this is how different you can get each nail, or each mani! I can't stop looking at my pretty stars!

So onto the photo tutorial:

L- R Top Row:

-Base Coat of Barry M

- Base Colour Models Own Navy - 2x coats

- Sponged first layer on, Barry M Matte White

- Second layer goes on, Barry M Colbat Blue

- Third Layer - a bit more Barry M Matte White to take the edge off the blue

L-R Bottom Row:

- Next I applied Barry M Grey to the bases of the nail (sponged on) to try and create the gradient

- Models Own Garnet is next! I stuck this to a small area quite central to the nail to make the middle of the galaxy!

- A few little stars sponged on, using w7's silver glitter polish

- A top up of Models Own Garnet - because I went overboard with the stars!

- finally to finish - some bigger stars using Barry M's holographic glitter

**EDIT** the Models Own reddy polish I used is Scarlet not Garnet!
I am giving away Garnet n my GIVEAWAY >>>>> see sidebar!