Ahoy! Sailor manicure! :-P

Arr, cap'n! You'll just adore these seaworthy nails! A cool, playful look that's sure to earn you some sealegs! :-) Arr :-)


You will need:

1. A dark or navy blue polish
2. A matte silver or thick metallic (if not, super light grey works too.)
3. White striper or white polish w/detail brush
4. Red polish (bright is nice :-J)
5. Cotton swab and nail polish remover for clean-up
6. Your choice of topcoat
7. Dotting tool comes in handy but optional.

What I used

Steps:

1. Paint your Index, Middle, and Pinky fingers with the matte silver, metallic, or light grey. (white works too)
2. Paint your Thumb and Ring finger with the blue. Let all nails dry.
3. With the red (red stripers work great!!) polish, paint thin lines going horizontally across your Index, Middle, and Pinky fingers. If they are sized right, about 4 should fit on your Index and Middle, and 3 on your Pinky. Space them accordingly :-)
4. With the white striper or polish and detail brush, start to draw the anchor on your thumb and ring finger. First, use the white and possibly a dotting tool to make a medium-sized dot near the cuticle of your nail. Then draw a vertical line going down from the dot. Make a small line near the top of the vertical line, as if it were a lower-case 't'. Then draw an upside-down half-circle (kinda like a smile) at the bottom of your anchor. Add triangles at the ends if you can.
5. Use a smaller dotting tool or brush to paint a small dot of blue in the middle of the anchor's top (where the big white dot is). Your anchor is complete :-) If you have trouble making anchors, look up reference pics for help, or look below at my pics of my nails.
6. Your choice of top coat on top to protect your design!
7. Clean up around your nail with a cotton swab dipped in Nail Polish Remover if needed.

I absolutely LOVE how these turned out! I'm not repainting over these for a bit, sorry. x-D But don't worry, I'll find a model to work on :-P
Anyway here's how mine look.

haha, obviously BEFORE I cleaned them up x-D