First time for everything! Owl Nail Art

Everyone has to start somewhere and I was inspired by one of my friends love of owls to try a simple owl on my thumb. For my first ever nail art attempt I was impressed at how it came out.

Colours - 

• Revlon clear base coat, to protect my nails
• a gorgeous blue UV varnish from Primark - this adds some fun to the design, a sedate owl in the day and a glowing one at night!
• Revlon's "copper glaze platinum" and "pure pearl" which are both glittery were used to add in his features

Method - 

1. Firstly I should ad that I don't have any proper nail art tools, as a student I really don't have the money to invest in any so I applied this design with a selection of home-made dotting tools and detail brushes. These can be very cheep to source or make and allow for more variation of size. 
2. To protect my nails I applied a base coat of clear, allow this to dry fully or the further design will not dry very fast at all!
3. Then you want to create the basic shape, using a colour of choice in this case I used the UV blue, to cover about 2/3's of the nail and with a small brush add the pointed ears. 
4. Once the base colour has dried fully add the features, with another small brush I added the copper colour in 2 semi-circles down each side for wings and a small triangle for the beak in the middle. 
5. Using a dotting tool of the end of a paintbrush or bobby pin to create the two circle for the eyes and possibly smaller circles on the body as markings. To add pupils to the eyes, dip a small dotting tool in a black or brown and add to the centre of the eye circles. 
6. To protect the design and make it last longer I would recommend a top coat, this can also help to smooth over any mistakes you happened to make. 

 Hope you like him as much as I did. Thank you for reading and feel free to comment :)