How to Color Your Nails With Sharpie Markers

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Say you decided your plain nails are looking a little boring, or your current nail color isn't working with our outfit. But, oh no, you don't seem to have any nail polish! No worries, you can pull it off with Sharpie markers easily.

Steps

Decide what color Sharpie you want on your nails.

Wash your hands in warm water and gently push your cuticles back. Remove your other polish if you have any. Then trim, cut or file your nails as needed.

Paint all of your nails with a base coat. This will protect your natural nails from staining (although the Sharpie will come off) and help you remove the design easier with nail polish remover

Start coloring your non-dominant hand with your dominant one. If you are right handed, color your left, and vice versa. When you're finished, ask someone to do your other hand for you.

Coat your nails with a top coat afterwards. It'll be a lot shinier than if you just leave it, and it will last longer. This is optional.

To remove the Sharpie, simply wipe your nails with nail polish remover to take off the color.

Finished!

Alternate Method

Trim your nails and file them! Your nails should be neatly trimmed and filed.

Look for regular nontoxic markers. Try using crayola markers, they do make good fake nail polish! Try to have them be washable, in case you don't want it and want to wash it off. Also, although the fat markers make it messier to paint nails, use them because they won't run out of ink as quickly as thinner ones. Watercolor paints work well too, as they wash off better.

Pick your favorite color. You should wear something that matches. If you are wearing a purple dress or shirt, put on purple! Always make sure that it matches -- otherwise you'll look really odd (and your parents will find out!).

Lay your fingers down on a hard surface (such as a table), splayed.

Take your marker or brush and paint away on your nails. Don't mind about messing up -- the ink can be removed.

Wait for the color to dry. Eat a snack, clean up your supplies, or just do something that lasts a minute.

Look at your nails. They should be dry, but look for parts of the nail without as much color as others. Take your marker and repaint the lighter areas of the nail. The color across the nail should be consistently strong.