Tale as old as time… These
nails are inspired by the princess Belle from the movie Beauty and the Beast (1991).
Each month I will bring you a new set of nails based on a Disney
princess, in the order of their release.
You’ll need:
Base coat
Top coat (I prefer Seche Vite)
Striper brush
Neutral (like a pearl shade), yellow, light brown, dark
brown, light pink, medium pink, red, green, light/medium blue, white, light
purple, black, nude and glitter top coat nail polishes (I used: Essie in
limo-scene; Pure Ice in Excuse Me; Sally Hansen Satin Glam in 01 Go Gold; OPI
Nail Lacquer in You Don’t Know Jacques! Suede; Cover Girl Continuous Color in
Parisian Pink 052; Sephora by OPI in Three Way Mirror; Sally Hansen Diamond Strength
Nail Color in 89 Honeymoon Red; Butter London in British Racing Green; OPI Nail
Lacquer in Can’t Find My Czechbook; Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in 110 Hard to
Get; Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in 370 No Hard Feelings; Sally Hansen Hard as
Nails in 880 Black Heart; OPI Nail Lacquer in My Vampire is Buff; and Juicy
Couture glitter top coats in pink glitter and gold glitter)
Start with a base coat.
Paint your pinky and thumb a neutral color, like a pearly shade, your
ring and index nails yellow, and your middle nail light brown.
Starting with the simplest nail, use just the tip of your
striper brush dipped in light pink to paint “bonjour” on your ring
fingernail. (If you can do it in
cursive, that’s really pretty!) Add pink
and gold glitter around the writing.
On your index fingernail use the striper brush to create the
rose in the jar. Red rose petals pointed
toward the right side of the nail, a bendy green stem with droopy leaves, and
red petals lying under the flower. Use
the striper brush dipped in dark brown to paint the jar, with a round bottom
and two small ovals on top.
Use the striper brush in blue to create the back of Belle’s
blue dress on your pinky. (Just from the
waist up, so a small square shape in the middle at the base of your nail with
two small rectangles extending upward from each side of the square.) Use the striper brush in white to fill in the
space between the blue and the edges of your nail, and the space between the
two blue rectangles (so there is essentially a straight line across the middle
of your nail). Use the striper brush in
dark brown to create sort of a heart shape above the center part of the dress,
with a small, rounded diamond shape extending from the bottom of the heart (for
Belle’s ponytail). Use the striper brush
dipped in blue to make a bow where the heart and the diamond meet.
On your thumb use the striper brush dipped in white to
create the shape of Chip on the left side of the nail. (Don’t forget the crack in the teacup!) Dip your striper brush in yellow to outline
the top and bottom edges of the teacup, then create a small purple triangle at
the bottom with a yellow edge underneath and a few small pink and blue dots
along the top of the purple section. Now
use the striper brush to create a mouth (I did a medium pink crescent shape
with a light pink dot for the tongue), outline the mouth and paint the eye and
eyebrow in black, and add the yellow handle!
For the middle fingernail we are going to show Belle on the
ladder in front of the bookcase from the scene with the song “Little Town!” Use the striper brush dipped in dark brown to
paint horizontal lines across the entire nail, with a slightly wider space at
the base. In the wider space, create two
dark brown square outlines then place a yellow dot in the middle of each. (These are the drawers.) Use the striper brush and various colors (I
did light pink, purple and green) to add books on the shelves. Use the striper brush and dark brown to make
a ladder toward the left side of the nail, and then blue and white to create
the shape of Belle’s dress as she leans off the ladder toward the right side of
the nail. Then use the nude polish to
create hands, legs, a neck and a head; white to add an apron at the waist; dark
brown for the ponytail; blue for the bow; and black for the face. Add a top coat to each nail and you’re done!
~Alyssa
