Tie Dye (ish) Nails

Hey There Polished People!

For my first week at my summer job I decided to attempt tie dye nails and I’m just now getting around to sharing them. We do tie dye shirts a couple of times each summer at the park, and it’s really fun, so I thought hm, tie dye nails would be appropriate for the first few days! 🙂 Also, Frosso from Lacquer Me Silly and I were talking about nail art one day and I think I told her to do some tie dye, she told me to do some tie dye and we were both like “uh… nahhhhh, too hard” but then I got this wild idea to actually try it and today you will see my results.

How To Get These Nails:

1. Start with a white (I like Nina Ultra Pro French White) base.
2. Apply a healthy drop of blue polish (FP Inkblot Blue) on one side in the middle of your nail, apply a thick ring of pink polish (ChG Flip Flop Fantasy) around the blue, then apply a thinner but still healthy ring of yellow (Orly Glowstick) around the pink.
3. Quickly grab a needle and drag it from the blue out through the outer rings of color in several areas radiating out from the blue dot, creating the tie dye effect.
4. Apply topcoat when you’re done with each nail.
5. Show your friends! 🙂
6. I have seen this method around for a while now, but I followed Strawbrie’s tutorial on Instagram. You can find that tutorial here.

Next time I do this type of nail art, I think I will make sure to use thicker rings of polish, because as you can see, my pink and yellow didn’t drag very well. Also, I was trying to stick with traditional tie dye colors (blue, pink, yellow) but in the future I will use more because I think that will create a better tie dye effect. All-in-all though I was mostly happy with these nails. I wore them for three days before snapping this picture and OF COURSE right before I was going to take this pic I chipped a big ‘ol corner off of my ring finger, hence the peace sign. 😉 Whoops!! I will definitely try this again sometime though, and I encourage anyone else who hasn’t tried it yet to give it a go because it was really easy and even though it didn’t turn out perfectly, I think it still looked really cool. I hope you did too!

Tie dye screams summer to me, what screams summer to you? Is there a type of nail art you just are too nervous to try, or are you a fearless crazy nail lady? 😉 Let me know what you think in the comments below. As always thank you all very much for reading and till next time- Happy polishing!! 😀