Birthday Candles!

So, in celebration of my birthday (tomorrow!) I decided to do a birthday themed design. Birthday candles could be used for any birthday (one idea was to do "24"s all over in different colors). They're easy too!

You'll need a pretty good variety of nail polish colors for this design. It's supposed to look festive!

Here is what I used:

• a clear base coat
• a blue polish (Sinful Colors "Why Not")
• a purple polish (Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear "Deep Purple")
• a white striper or polish
• nail polish for the candles
• yellow polish for the flames
• a clear top coat

If you don't have stripers you can use a thin paintbrush or toothpick to draw the stripes and flames.

Let's get started!

First, paint your nails with your base coat. This will help protect your nail and prevent staining from your polishes.

Next, paint all of your nails the background color - I chose blue.

Take your accent color - mine was purple - and paint a diagonal section on your pointer and ring fingers. I did mine going in opposite directions. It doesn't have to be a perfectly straight line...you're going to cover the meeting point up.

Next, use colors you chose for your candles. You can put as many candles as you want on each nail. Just paint a straight line, from the middle of your nail to the tip, for each candlestick.

Here is a closer view:

Here's where the little details come in. Use your white striper (or other tool) to cover that diagonal meeting point. Also, paint little white stripes going down each candle at a diagonal.

Almost done. Now use a little bit of yellow polish to paint a flame at the top of each of your candles.

Cute, huh?! All that's left to do now is paint on a top coat to protect your design.