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Hello Kitty Bows

What You’ll Need: clear base and top coat; white nail polish; light pink nail polish; gold glitter nail polish; brown, yellow, red, dark and light pink acrylic paint; tweezers; three-ring-binder stickers; fine-tipped brush

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1. Apply a clear base coat.

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2. On each middle and index fingernail, apply two coats of white polish.

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3. On each index fingernail, apply one coat of gold glitter polish.

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4. Using tweezers, apply stickers to the beds of the remaining three nails on each hand.

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5. Apply two coats of light pink polish on each of the nails with the stickers, keeping the stickers on and painting over them to achieve a French tip about three-quarters of the way down the nail.

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6. Using tweezers, peel off the stickers.

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7. Using a fine-tipped brush, trace outside the French tip line with gold glitter polish.

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8. Create a palette with small dots of brown, yellow, red, dark pink, and light pink paint.

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9. On each index fingernail, use a fine-tipped brush and brown paint to draw two vertical ovals for the eyes and draw the whiskers. Using yellow paint, draw a horizontal oval centered between the eyes for the nose.

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10. Using red paint, draw the bow at the top right corner of the nail. (See this page.)

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11. Once the bow has dried (about five minutes), use a fine-tip brush to outline the bow with gold glitter polish.

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12. On each middle fingernail, draw three bows, one in dark pink, one in light pink, and one in red.

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13. Once the bows have dried, use a fine-tipped brush to outline the bows with gold glitter polish. Apply a clear top coat to all nails.

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