Bunny Friends Nail Tutorial

Do you often see nail tutorials, or indeed just photos of nail designs, and think ''I could never do that''? If the answer is yes, then stay tuned because I have a super-cute, super-easy nail tutorial for you today...

You will need:

A grey polish (mine is a Nails Inc mini) and a white polish. These will become the background for your design, but will also be used in the actual design itself. Make sure that your grey isn't too light as you'll want there to be distinction between the two colours.

A base coat and a top coat. I chose the Sally Hansen Insta-Dri purely out of convenience. 

A glitter. I chose this (totally out-of-focus, apologies) Nails Inc polish that I got free in Glamour magazine, but you can pick up extremely similar dupes cheaply in Superdrug and Boots. This is to give some extra sparkle to the bare nails. 

Three toothpicks/cocktail sticks. You will need to use these for the finer details in the design. You could get away with only using two, and using both ends of one, but I prefer to use three.

A light to mid pink. This will be used as part of the design. You could also use this as the colour of the non-patterned nails if you fancied. I also used my Rimmel Nail Tip Whitener, although you could just use the white polish I mentioned above. 

Step 1:
File/shape your nails. I personally prefer a flat edge, but I know some people prefer a rounded edge. For what it's worth, flat edges probably look better with this design, but you can go with whatever...

Step 2:
Apply a base coat. I just used Rimmel's 60 Seconds clear polish, but you can choose whichever you like. 

Step 3: 
Apply your grey polish to every other finger nail, and apply your white to the remaining nails. Allow to dry for as long as you need. Depending on how strong you like the colour to be, you may need to apply more than one coat.

Step 4:
When your nails are dry, you need to make an arc on the end of your nail in whichever colour is not already on your nail. So, if your nail is painted grey, paint a white arc. If your nail is painted white, paint a grey arc. For my white arcs, I used the Rimmel Nail Tip Whitener as it was more precise. These arcs will be the face of the bunny.

Step 5:
Next, draw two lines straight up from the arc with a small gap between. Make sure the lines are the same colour as your arc, as while your bunnies could have differently coloured ears, it'll look neater if the colours are the same.

Step 6:
Take one of your cocktail sticks and dip it into the pink polish. Then, draw two thin lines in the middle of the ears, and one smallish pink dot near to the base of the nail. These will be the pinks of the ears and the nose.

Step 7:
Then, for white bunnies, take another cocktail stick and dip it into the grey polish. Dot on two little eyes and then draw two thin lines either side of the nose (for whiskers). For grey bunnies, repeat this but make sure you use the white polish instead. 

Step 8:
Now, you could put bunnies on all of your nails if you like, but I chose to apply gold glitter over all nails except the ring finger and thumb. If you choose the same, do this now and allow to dry.

Step 9:
Make sure you tidy up any messy edges (I prefer to use little cotton buds dipped in nail polish remover to do this) and then apply a top coat. I use Sally Hansen's Insta-Dri because it really does help to dry the nail quicker, or at least dry to the touch. Allow all of your nails to dry, then you're all set!

Of course, you can mix up the colours of this as much as you like. I think this design would look really cute at Easter with nice pastels :)

Here's the finished product...

Hope you enjoyed! Let me know if you've tried anything like this :)

Thanks for reading,

Rachel x

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