Color Your Nails With Sharpie Markers
Say you decided your plain nails are looking a little boring, or your current nail color isn't working with our outfit. But, oh no, you don't seem to have any nail polish! No worries, you can pull it off with Sharpie markers easily.
Steps
- Decide what color sharpie you want on your nails.
- Wash your hands in warm water and gently push your cuticles back. Remove your other polish if you have any. Then trim, cut or file your nails as needed.
- Paint all of your nails with a base coat. This will protect your natural nails from staining (though the sharpie will come off) and help you remove the design easier with nail polish remover
- Start coloring your non-dominant hand with your dominant one if you are right handed, color your left (vice versa). When you're finished ask someone to do your other hand for you.
- Coat your nails with a top coat afterward. It'll be a lot shinier than if you just left it, and it will last longer. This is optional.
- To remove, simply wipe your nails with nail polish remover to take off the color.
- Finished.
Alternate Method
- Trim your nails and file them! Your nails should be neatly trimmed and filed.
- Look for regular nontoxic markers. Try using crayola markers, they do make good fake nail polish! Try to have them washable, in case you don't want it and wash it off. Also, although the fat markers make it messier, use those because they won't run out of ink so easily. Watercolor paints work well too. It washes off better.
- Pick your favorite color. You should wear something that matches. If you are wearing a purple dress or shirt, put on purple! Always make sure that it matches -- otherwise you'll look really odd (and your parents will find out!).
- Lay your fingers down on a hard surface like a table, splayed.
- Take your marker or brush and just paint away on your nails. Don't mind about messing up.
- Wait for the color to dry. Eat a snack, clean up your supplies, do something that lasts just a minute.
- Look at your nails. They should be dry, but look for parts without so much color. Take your marker and repaint. All the color on the nails should match.
- Get a cotton swab (also called q-tips) and wet it with hot water. Gently brush around the nail and remove all the marker that is not on the nail.
- Finished! Enjoy your "fake nail polished" nails!
Tips
- Sharpies can be better than nail polish as it can be easier to draw designs!
- Coloring your nail with sharpies won't tint your nails yellow, it's only a rumour.
- Try not to get any sharpie on your skin- it doesn't come off as easily as on your nails.
- Try not to get it on the skin around your nail. You can always use tape around it to protect it.
- It isn't the best for your nails, so try not to do this too often.
- Fat sharpies will be easier to work with than the thin ones, but you can use both.
Warnings
- Apply nail polish/remover in a well ventilated room and do not inhale the fumes.
- Drinking nail polish remover is extremely bad for your health.
Things You'll Need
- A pack of sharpie markers
- Clear nail polish (opt.)
- Nail polish remover for afterward
