If you would like to have your nail art featured please send a clear picture of the hands and nails.  If you do have pictures of the various stages of the design please include them as well as they are helpful in seeing if you are going right so far when re-creating the design.  Also enclose clear simple instructions on the colours, brushes and stencils used.  Any photos of nail art printed in this newsheet will not affect the chances of having the picture printed in the main reference book.

Step by step

1.      Apply an airbrush basecoat.

2.      Spray the entire nail with your clients’ chosen base colour, in this case pink.

3.      Apply a ‘splash’ design stencil and spray white.  Use the stencil as many times of the nail as chosen, in this case two per nail.

4.      Re-apply the stencil and spray black very lightly in the centre of the design.  Make sure that the black doesn’t cover the whole of the white.

5.      Apply an airbrush suitable topcoat and diamond or co-ordinating rhinestones in the centre of the splash.

6.      Apply a final top coat.

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go to page 3 - Airbrushed or freehand nail art?  Why I chose airbrush