Easter Nail Art: Chicks and Eggs

Hey guys! Today I have this cute little chick and egg design, just in time for Easter. Believe it or not, I have never worn yellow nail polish before now, but this cheap yellow Art Deco polish I picked up at a makeup clearance does the job well enough, though I don't think I'll be pulling it out again anytime soon! Read on for my tutorial on how to get this Easter look for yourself :)

What I Used:

- OPI Nail Envy Base Coat
- OPI Alpine Snow
- OPI Black Onyx
- OPI Hot n Spicy
- OPI You're Such A Budapest
- OPI My Dogsled Is A Hybrid
- LA Colours Art Deco Yellow
- Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat
- Dotting tool from winstonia
- Detail brush #000 from winstonia
- Tweezers
- Skinny chevron vinyls from nailvinyls.com 
- Nail polish remover and cleanup brush

1. Apply a base coat to protect your nails from stains and provide a smooth base for polish. 

2. Paint your nails with two coats of a yellow polish and allow to dry completely. Yellow polishes tend to be quite thin, so you may need a third coat for full opacity.

3. Once your nails are completely dry, apply your chevron vinyl sticker horizontally roughly half way down the nail and smooth it out. Take your white polish and fill in the top half of your nail to the tip, making sure you don't go over your vinyl. Remove the vinyl while the white polish is still wet, and you should be left with a clean zigzag shape. (if you don't have nail vinyls, you can handpaint the zigzag tip of the egg with a small nail art brush, but the process is much quicker with vinyls!)  

4. Using a large dotting tool, paint two large dots side by side in the centre of the yellow half of your nail. Then, using a smaller dotting tool add two smaller black dots inside the white dots to create the eyes of your chickens. 

5. Using a couple of pastel colours and that same dotting tool, add some small dots to the white egg half of your nail, alternating the colours on each nail so they don't all look the same. 

6. Paint on a small orange triangle underneath the eyes of your chicken with a small nail art brush to create a beak, and then leave everything to dry.

7. Seal in your design with a top coat and clean up any polish around your nails with polish remover and a brush or cottonbud.

And there you have it, aren't they just adorable? Try them out for yourself and let me know how you get on in the comments below, or on Facebook or Instagram. Thanks for reading, and I'll see you next time!

Lisa xx