Caroline Burke | Burkatron

I've painted watermelons, bananas, strawberries and half a dozen fruity nail variations but I've never painted pineapple nails until now (can you believe it? what a slacker!)

I saw these nails on wah's instagram and have been meaning to try them for ages. I recently broke a few of my nails and this is a design that doesn't require super long talons and it's great for disguising uneven nails.. phew!

remember those hyper gel nail polishes from models own.. well now they've launched a clear top coat! I thought this was a brilliant idea as you can add a gel effect finish to your whole nail polish to collection with just one product. 

I've tried it over a topshop's green room polish to show you how it looks..

to start the brogue design paint your entire nails with two coats of white polish and leave to dry. next take a small brush and draw a black  m shape about 1/3 down from the tip. 

paint in the remaining third of the nail with black polish so your nails look like mine (above)

I've used models own nail art tool kit* to paint this design, I've never used 'proper' nail art brushes before (just old paintbrushes) and I fully recommend these if you don't have any tools! the brush fibres are nice and compact so there's no stray bristles and there's something for every nail art technique from dots and stripes through to gradients (there's also some nail art tape which I'm excited to try for colour blocking!)

next paint a black horizontal line across each nail.. to finish use a dotting tool to dab white dots along the black line and over the arches as above. 

seal with a good slick of topcoat and taa daaa... brogues on your fingers (no blisters guaranteed!) 

do you like? 

if you have any requests for nail art tutorials let me know!

caroline x

ps. don't forget to enter my luxury pamper giveaway, there's 10 hampers to win! fingers crossed everyone!

I had some wickedness arrive in my postbox recently.. nail mail from the queen of nail art tammy at DIY nails!

I couldn't resist showing you these misfit decals from their bad blood clothing collab, they're crazy easy to apply and last for ages (perfect for those less inclined to do nail art themselves)

I painted a base coat of my favourite new colour barry m huckleburry and then cut out the faces of my new friends (one for each finger!)

one at a time place your decals into a little bowl of water (I find this easiest) wait at least 10 seconds before you fish them out! slide the decal off the backing paper and onto your nail.

easy peasy... the hardest part was picking who to wear! seal with topcoat to finish and I guarantee these decals will last longer than your nail polish.

DIY nails water decals*

celeb nail art in minutes.. seriously who wouldn't want johnny depp under the thumb? 

if you're tempted to try these you MUST check out their new in section for lots of other nail delights...

do we like?

caroline x