This was another one of those manicures that was really hard to take off because I fell in love with it. It was so much fun to have on! I have seen the look before, but it felt intimidating to do outlined, or framed, nails. Now that I’ve had a bit of practice with outlines this design felt like it was in my skill range. Then I found these awesome comic inspired nail tattoos randomly at Walmart and knew it was time to give this look a try.

I grabbed my best super hero colors and created a skittle manicure, and used white for the base color underneath the tattoo accent nail. At first I had painted it black thinking that the tattoo’s had white rims around the designs but they don’t. The design actually didn’t show up much at all, so these tattoos are best used over lighter and bright colors to really make them POP. These are super simple to use:

• Apply base nail color – I used white
• Cut out the paper for your nail shape – I traced a set of nail wraps I knew fit my nails well and used that as a “template”
• Remove the clear protective film
• Dip into water
• Press paper onto nail for 10 seconds
• Seal with top coat – done!

So funky and fun! If you look them without any glare from lighting this design really makes your hands look fake, such a trip! I was supposed to wear these to WonderCon, but ended up not feeling well that day. They felt appropriate.

Inspired by: Renee’s Nails on Tumblr

Outlined Comic Nail Art – Get The Look

For this look I used:

• Sinful Colors – Snow Me White
• Sinful Colors – Black on Black
• Sinful Colors – Ruby Ruby
• China Glaze – Shower Together
• Wet n Wild – Sunny Side Up (wild shine)
• Fing’rs – Comic Nation (heart 2 art tattoo paper)
• Seche Vite – Dry Fast Top Coat
• No Brand – Thin, small detailing brush (size #00, from Amazon)