Pastel Galaxy Nails

Hello everyone! My nail art challenge for April 28^th was to do a galaxy nail design, but I figured, since it's spring, why not give this design a bit of a twist. I headed off to Pinterest and came across a pastel galaxy! This is perfect for spring and I thought I’d give it a go.

The polishes I used were Sally Hansen’s Insta-Dri shades in “Pink Blink” (#205), “Lively Lilac” (#420), “Man-go Team!” (#30), “Blue-Away” (#425), and “Jade Jump” (#450), and Sally Hansen’s Triple Shine shade “Twinkled Pink” (#310). For this design you will need a clean makeup sponge as well.

I started out with my bright pink base color and let that dry. On a makeup sponge I painted one color with my purple and patted the excess polish off of the sponge onto a piece of paper. This is the most important step to ensure you get the galaxy effect. I patted on my purple polish in a diagonal line across my nail. Then I did the same thing with all the rest of my colors except instead of doing a line fully across my nail I dotted the colors in random places around the purple line.

At this point I used a sample of yellow Opi polish that I purchased at Kroger (which I was mad because it was too expensive for the amount I got) and added dots on my nail. The polish is extremely see through and it would have taken forever to see it on my nail if I used a dotter so I ended up using the brush. I recommend that you just use white here because it would be more visible and a lot less annoying. This is optional but it adds a nice touch.

I finished off the design with a glitter top coat and it’s done! I hope you all like this design. If you’d like to see the video tutorial you can see it here. Make sure you follow my Twitter and Instagram to keep updated on what I’m doing. See you guys soon :) BYYEEE

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