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Patriotic Nail Styles that you can do at home. Part 2.

  • Posted on August 12, 2009 at 10:57 pm

Ok, so Labor day is coming up soon and with the end of the three big American Summer Celebrations, The Fourth of July, Memorial Day and Labor Day, I wanted to put in one more post about how to some some fun and fabulous nail styles that will work great for your Picnic, Watching Fireworks and showing how much you love the USA.

To do these nails is very simple and you will only need a few things.

  • 1. Star Shaped Stickers
  • 2. Nail Polish (Red, White and Blue)
  • 3. Long straight stickers
  • 4. Time to put on a few layers of color.

So anyways, onto Patriotic Nail Styles to help you celebrate American Holidays (Memorial Day, The Fourth of July and Labor Day), part 2.

Got the blues for red nail polish

Got the blues for red nail polish

OPI Funny Bunny White Nail Polish

OPI Funny Bunny White Nail Polish

OPI Blue My Mind Blue Nail Polish

OPI Blue My Mind Blue Nail Polish

American Nails Style 1.

Now this is a very easy one to do and if you modify the steps a little bit you can even make it work for Puerto Rico or Texas by creating their flags and adding the blue nail polish in differently.

1.  Paint your nails all white by using the Funny Bunny Nail Polish to the left.

2.  Let your nails dry.

3.  Take out a star shaped sticker that fits on your nail and place one in the center of each nail.  (It doesn’t matter which color stickers you have as you are going to paint over them to get the shape).

4.  Now paint the top half of your nails blue and when they dry the bottom half red.  (The blue on the top is just a preference of mine, but you can flip them if you’d like).

5.  Now, to get a straight line, take the bottom half color or red nail polish and paint a line going horizontal so the top of the brush is half way up the nail and that way you don’t have any squiggles.  The other option is to use a star that is just as long as your nail is wide and only paint your nail to the horizontal line and you’ll get a perfect pattern for this design.

6.  Once these paint layers are dry, carefully remove the star sticker, you can use tweezers or your own nails, but be careful not to scratch the other colors, and when it is removed, you now have a white star American Flag nail design perfect for the American Summer Holidays like the Fourth of July, Memorial Day and Labor Day.

Patriotic American Nails Style 2.

1.  Take the long stickers and cut thin straight strips out of them that go just wider than your finger nail.

2. Cut out boxes that are half the width of your finger nails and cut ten of them.

3. Paint your nails with the blue nail polish from above.

4.  Let your nails dry.

5.  Take the boxes you cut and put them at the top left of the nails on your left hand and the top right on the nails on your right hand.  Don’t be afraid if they are over the top of your nails. You are trying to save a squared bottom of blue on your nails that goes to the top.

5.  Take the red or white nail polish from above and paint your nails a solid color.

4.  Let this layer dry.

5.  Take the long thin cut strips of stickers and place them across the width of your finger nails, so there is space between each. and the stripes actually go onto your fingers.  You can also do them vertically instead of horizontally if you would like.

6.  Take the last color and paint your nails with it.

7.  Let your nails dry.

Now, when you remove all of these stickers and all of the shapes you designed, all of the sudden you are going to have a blue box with red and white stripes below it which actually looks like the American Flag on each of your nails and nothing screams America more than the American flag, so celebrate the American holidays this year and next with these fabulous nails for patriotic holidays.

I love these American Flag Nails that are so easy you can do them at home by yourself and know that you will have as much fun as I do creating these American Flag Nails with your friends and daughters.

Also, don’t forget to search our blog for more ideas and designs that you can do at home as well as all of the fabulous hair, skin and nail products that you can find at HaircareDiscounters.com.

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Patriotic Nails for Labor Day, Memorial Day and the 4th of July.

  • Posted on August 6, 2009 at 5:04 am

So for some reason my computer is acting funny and I cannot upload the pictures of the colors or add the link to the site where you can buy them, (so I am linking to our Nail Polish section so you can select your own fabulous colors) but at the same time I put up three Halloween posts for the holiday section of the Haircare Discounters blog and didn’t want you all to think that we would miss an American Holiday as important as Labor Day, so regardless of anything, I wanted to make sure that we could provide you with some ideas on how to design and do patriotic nails for Labor Day, Memorial Day and The 4th of July.

These three holidays are amazing holidays for American’s to be able to celebrate.  Memorial Day is the celebration of our troops who defend and protect us, The 4th of July is our celebration of Independance from England and Labor Day is to celebrate the end of Summer (just kidding) its a holiday to celebrate all of the hard workers in this great country and to have a day where we can relax and spend time with our families.  Because these are also very patriotic holidays, I’m big on the Red, White and Blue Nail Polish Colors from OPI, mainly OPI an Affair in Red Square or Big Apple Red, Alpine Snow or Funny Bunny for the white and  OPI Blue My Mind Blue Nail Polish.

Soo anyways, onto Patriotic Nails that you can do at home for Memorial Day, The Fourth of July and Labor Day.

Patriotic Nails Style 1.  This one is pretty cool.  When I think of America I think of shooting stars and the flag.  I think of fireworks on the fourth and just an all out celebration that usually lasts an entire weekend and for Memorial Day and Labor Day, even through Monday.  So why not create a style that goes as long as these holidays are celebrated.

1. Paint your nails blue with the OPI Blue My Mind nail polish.  Make sure you cover them completely and if you want, you can even put red tips like a french manicure across the top.  (We are getting a bit wonder womany on this though so be cautious with tipping the nails).

2. Now, cut a star shape or an asterix that has a few extra line off of the main star out of a piece of cardstock.  Then make a trail with a line above and a line below that curves and follows the pattern and length of your nails.  This is easy if you just make the sketch with the paper actually on top of your hand and you draw directly over your nails.  Make the middle line thicker and you can even make it a thick lightning shape if you would like, but make sure it points into the star.

3.  Next, cut the shape out of the card stock so you now have a pattern than can hold up to liquids and get the white nail polish out. Now what you do is take the pattern you made and paint the white star on your pinky nails or your thumb nails and then paint on the trail of these shooting stars by just taking your white nail polish and giving it a once over the pattern which you have laying on your nails.  Similar to silk screening and when you remove the cardstock, all of the sudden you have patriotic shooting star nails for these holidays.

Patriotic Nails style 2.

1.  This is a much easier design than the previous.  The first step is to cut out a larger star from a piece of cardstock.  Make sure it fits on the top half of your nail.

2.  Now, apply a fake nail tip if you have short nails to your nails so you can create a french manicure.

3.  Now, take the Big Apple Red or Affair in Red Square red nail polish and paint each of your nails red.  When this coat dries, take the blue nail polish and paint the tips of your nails or the extensions blue like a french manicure.

4.  Now, with a steady have, cut out a very thin white stripe in the card stock and carefully put two or three stripes of white nail polish onto each nail.

5.  Finally take the last cut out and either the blue or white nail polish, or rotate them and put a star on the nail on the top half of your nail and now you have created an American Flag patriotic nail design in no time at all.

Patriotic Nails Style 3.

1.  Get all three colors of nail polish.

2.  Paint each of your nails a solid color and rotate which color goes on which finger, or you can do red white red white going from your pinky to your thumb and paint your thumb nails blue and now you have created another fun American Flag design for your nails.  If you want to get really creative with this simple design, you can splatter or put white dots on your thumb nails like little stars.

Patriotic Nails for Labor Day, The Fourth of July and Memorial day are very fun and easy to do.  Just make sure they scream America since this is an American Holiday that not only celebrates the Country we live in, but also the people who make this Country what it is today.

If you are Canadian or from another Country, you can easily take these and change them around to match your country.  Instead of three color for the Canadians, use Red and White and Maple Lead cut outs and hole punches make the star shape extremely easy to cut out and use.  If you are British or Mexican, you can use your thumbs to put the Union Jack or the Mexican Symbols on your thumbs and your Countries colors on your other nails.

Patriotic holidays are always fabulous and being able to decorate your nails for them makes the holiday even more fun.  All I ask is that you come back here for more ideas, write to adam at haircarediscounters dot com with ideas or to share your story on this blog and buy your products from us here at Haircare Discounters where we offer over 1,000 hair, skin and nail care products at sale and discount prices.

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