As much as I love glitter nail polish, I often find challenging incorporating it into nail art designs. The main reason – most of thick glitter nail polishes are so pretty you don’t want to diminish their sparkle. So when this stunning Dance Legend pink glitter was first applied, I was tempted to leave it plain. If you can use term ‘plain’ when talking about glitter.
However, as someone who loves challenges, I thought of creating a new type of manicure that would work for this type of glitter. The task was to toughen up pink glitter without taming it – I still wanted it to play the main role in the manicure. So I came up with a new version of reverse chevron nails. Contrasting black chevrons to toughen it up and light lilac polish as the mid-shade to tie the black and pink together. The chevron details had to be at the nail bed to leave space on nails to do the holographic pink glitter. To get a better idea why I called this manicure ‘reverse’ here’s an example of classic chevron nails.
To get the look, I first painted nails with the pink glitter and then added black and lilac chevron details using this nail art brush. Finished with 2 coats of Essie Good To Go top coat. You can also follow this chevron nails tutorial from our nail art book. 
Used: Dance Legend 247 (pink glitter), ORLY Flawless Flush (light lilac from the new Blush Collection) and Orly Vinyl (black) and Essie Good To Go top coat.
How do you like these reverse chevron nails? Keen to try it? If you so, tweet or Instagram us, @So_Nailicious your nail art designs with a tag #sonailicious. We’d LOVE to see your work!
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Marta says
Your lines are impecable! Amazing
Maria @SoNailicious says
Thank you Marta! I find practicing often helps improving my free hand skills. The more I use the brush instead of the tape the better my lines are. Far from perfect still but I’m slowly getting there :) But seriously, brush is SO much faster and then tape. X
Kelli The Nail Polish Challenge says
This is a gorgeous look! I love that you used the glitter on its own rather than layer it over another color. Beautiful!
Maria @SoNailicious says
Thank you Kelli! I wanted to see if it’s pigmented enough and apparently it is! The pictured is 2 coats only and it looks so beautiful on nails, the holo effect isn’t really showing on photos. x
Squeaky Q says
This is such a cool design. I love the contrast between the pink glitter and black!
Manisha says
wow these are beautiful