Red Poinsettia Christmas Flowers with Tartan Nail art and tutorial

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Hello! I have some more Christmas nail art for you guys comin' fully equipped with a tutorial :). I have always loved the look of tartan nails, but have never been able to do them successfully until now! But, hey, I got there in the end, right! I think that tartan can work as the base for many Christmas designs, these are with Poinsettia flowers, which are also known as the Christmas flower. The polishes that I used in this tutorial were: Revlon Knockout, Revlon Sheer Sugar, Revlon Jaded Night and N.Y.C Banana split.

Now, on with the tutorial!

The very first step is to paint your nails with 1-2 coats of your favourite black nail polish (I used 1 coat of Revlon's Knockout). Then, use a sheer white polish to paint two thick stripes on either side of the nail. It's pretty easy just to use the brush from your nail polish bottle to complete this step, but be careful not to apply too much polish to your brush the polish may run and mess up your design!



After waiting for the original two stripes to dry, use your brush to create three more stripes going across the nail. 


The next steps will all require the use of a small nail art brush. At the intersecting points of the stripes, add white polish with your nail art brush to get that awesome tartan effect!


Now for those Christmasy Christmasy Poinsettias flowers! Using a nail art brush and red nail polish, draw petals and connect them to create your flower. Poinsettias seem to have quite pointy petals, so try and make the tips slightly spiky looking.


Add a number of leaves in green coming from around the flower.


The very last step is to create yellow dots in the centre of the flower. I used a nail art brush to do this because I could not find a dotting tool with a small enough tip.



And there we have it guys! Simple and elegant nail art for this festive season! Do you guys like tartan nails? What would you use tartan as a background for? Please let me know your thoughts in the comments and share your own creations using the #goodnails on Instagram and pinterest!
May your nails be good
Gabby

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