Hey There Polished People!
For today’s nails I got to try something I’ve been wanting to try for quite some time. I have seen lots of ikat nails, mainly those turquoise and orange/coral ones that everyone seems to recreate, and I’ve always wanted to try them. I have been planning to do these for “Inspired by a pattern day” forever so yayyyy here we go!
Ikat Pattern Nails
How To Get These Nails:
- Base coat.
- Paint your nails with Essence Break Through.
- Use ChG White On White to make white plus-sign/cross designs where you want the designs to be.
- Use ChG Aquadelic to make smaller plus-sign/crosses over the white. Try to leave more exposed than I did.
- Using a black striper, make black dashes all around the blue and white crosses in a jagged diamond pattern. Add a few dashes in the middle of the diamond as well.
- Apply topcoat (I use Seche Vite) and show your friends!!
Here’s a quick picture tutorial that you can look at and maybe like pin on Pinterest or share elsewhere? 
Check out Cynthia’s pattern nails here on Of Life and Lacquer!! 
Have you tried ikat nails? Are you even a fan of them, let alone mine? Let me know what you think in the comments below. As always thanks for reading and till next time- Happy Polishing!!
I love these – great colour combo!
I’ve seen ikat nails everywhere but what is ikat??
Thank you!! I googled ikat before I did these cuz I was like what the heck is ikat anyway?! The word comes from an Indonesian word, mengikat which is a way of dying fabric to get certain designs. It’s similar to tie dying I guess but obviously had a difference effect. I don’t know how to do it on actual fabric or anything, I just read about it online.
Thanks for reading and commenting!
Never tried but REALLY like yours!!!!
Thank you!
You should give em a go!
Absolutely gorgeous!! I love the colors and I love how you showed it step by step!
Thank you so much!! I try to remember to take pictures along the way even thought the lighting is bad where I do my nails. It’s fun showing everyone how its done.
I like how these came out and the colors go great together. There is something about ikats that makes me think of ghosts so I probably wouldn’t do them on myself.
Right after clicking the post comment button, I realized that is probably the weirdest comment ever.
Hey, you’re a weird one! What can I say? ;p
hahaha…thanks.
You watch scary movies, and have since you were little, but yet you wouldn’t to ikats cuz they’re ghost-shaped??
haha…told you it was random and very weird–but true.
i’ve always wanted to do these nails..!
Give em a try! They were much easier than I anticipated.
i will..! i’ll tag you once I do this..
Awesome.
I love them! I think they turned out amazing! They seem fairly simple, too – the final look appears like it would be much more complex than how you achieved them. I don’t think I’ve seen this pattern on nails before!
I like your base color a lot…and your color combo in general!
I see the pattern of a skirt that I own (an ikat print skirt, duh)…and Cynthia sees ghosts, haha. At least she is honest!
Hey different strokes for different folks! Haha. Yeah these were so much easier than I thought they were gonna be! And thanks about the color combo and everything. I LOVE that purple. It’s so bright and pretty and definitely purple.
I bet your skirt is cute!!