Tie Dye | Craftynail

Today’s nails are inspired by the cute hippie curtains that I have hanging on my bedroom windows! Here’s a pic of them- they’re batik tie dye panel curtains…

I think I did a good job replicating them! I started with two coats of my L.A. Girl 3D Effects Hologram Nail Polish called Brilliant Blue. Then I sponged on a bit of a black holo from the same collection called Black Illusion and also some NYC called Black Lace Creme. The moons were dotted on with a large dotting tool and some white wet n wild polish. Then I overlapped half of that white dot with a Brilliant Blue dot to make the crescent shape. That was easy! I made the stars with white polish and my smallest dotting tool. I was afraid they’d be difficult, but the tiny head of the dotting tool worked really well to shape the five points of the stars. I added some seche vite topcoat and now I’ve got some awesome galaxy nails! The only thing that would make them cooler is if the moons and stars glowed in the dark!

Ten minute nail art? How cool is that? I whipped these babies together in no time! I did a base coat or Orly Ridge Filler… then I painted four different strips of bright colors. I just sort of glopped them on very thick and messy. Then I dragged a dotting tool through them to create the tie dye effect. It would probably look nice with a bright white base coat- but I was going for quick and easy today so I skipped that part. For such a ‘quick n dirty’ technique it came out pretty cool I think. This could be a great option for some quick summertime nail art!

Have you ever tried tie dye nails? I imagine that there’s a lot of different tie dye techniques out there!