Glitter Butterfly Wing Nail Tutorial

Hello fellow nail art addicts! I thought it was time to share my passion with others, I hope these step by step tutorials offer you inspiration or just help you to recreate the look.

The first design I'm going to show you is the Glitter Butterfly Wing.

For this design you will need 6 to 7 different nail polishes a nail striper and a dotting tool.
I used -

• Mua - Bold Blue
• Barry M - Mint Green 
• Barry M - Black
• Barry M - White
• Essie - Lilacaism
• Rimmel London - Strawberry Fizz
• Calvin Klein - Hallucinate (Not Photographed)

To Begin this design you will need to paint each of your nails two coats of different colours. You can pick what colours you want to use, you don't have to use the same ones I did.

When the two coats of each colour has completely dried you are going to want to start the actual design of the wing. To do so you're going to want to coat a nail striper in black nail varnish and paint on a small curve from the cuticle to about half way down your nail, you are also going to want to paint on another 4 curved lines going diagonally across your nail. (See picture 1.)

Once that step has been completed you are going to want to use a small dotting tool to paint on curved lines to connect each section (See picture 2.) You can also use a striper to do this step however I find you have more control using a dotting tool, feel 
free to do whatever is 
easier for you.

The next thing you want you do is fill in the edge of the nail with the black nail varnish (See picture 3.)For this step you can use a dotting tool, nail striper or just use the brush from the bottle, you can use whichever you are most comfortable with.

After the black polish had dried you are going to want to place a small amount of white polish on a scrap piece of paper so you can dip the dotting tool into it. Get a small amount on the dotting tool and dot it on randomly over the black polish (See picture 4.) It doesn't matter if the dots aren't the same size as this adds to the effect. Finally you are going to want to paint a glitter top coat over the design, this helps the design last longer and gives it a bit of sparkle.

Hope you found this step by step helpful, look out for more coming soon.