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DIY Acrylic Nails - How To Do Your Own Nails At Home

DIY Acrylic Nails are easier then you think to do at home! The best part about doing your nails at home is that you can do them in the comfort of your own home.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Author MomSkoop

Equipment

  • Blue Hills Studio Storage Cart with 6 Drawers - My storage cart for nail supplies. If you decide to stock up on supplies, you'll want to store them separately and securely. I had this cart previously and it was perfect.
  • Acrylic Brush - as long as you paid more than $5 for it, you'll be fine.
  • SHANY Fimo Canes - a great fimo starter set
  • Glitter - the set I used is no longer available. Try this one instead
  • DL Professional French Manicure Clean-Up Brush - my favorite 'smile line' brush to create perfect French manicures and pedicures

Ingredients

  • ASP Form-A-Nail - The must have for home acrylics
  • No Lift Professional Acrylic Nail Kit - Excellent Acrylic powder & liquid starter kit. Comes with all 4 acrylic colors and primer as well.
  • Decori Adoro Acrylic Tips in NATURAL - My current favorite tips for a natural look.
  • Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Disco Ball - My new favorite glitter polish

Instructions

4 Easy Steps for DIY Acrylic Nails:

  • Add artificial nail tip (after a bit of practice you can even skip this step!)
  • Apply acrylic to nail form
  • Press nail form onto nail for 15 - 20 seconds
  • File edges

Adding Art

  • mix glitter into your acrylic before applying
  • place glitter directly into acrylic in form
  • place almost anything into the form with the acrylic: decals, gems, beads, even images from a magazine
  • Fimo sticks are sliced with a razor blade to make colorful images for your nails. Many people place them on TOP of the nail art. But that creates a layered 3D effect that can catch on fabric, break off, scratch your kids (found that out the hard way). With nail forms, you put the fimo slice UNDER the acrylic so they won't come off until you remove the nail.
  • First attempt: Semi-transparent natural nail tip with clear acrylic in a nail form. I polished just the tips with Sally Hansen "Disco Ball'.
  • For my second attempt I used a traditional nail tip and overlayed with 'natural' acrylic on the tips and 'soft pink' on the nail beds. Again, applied with nail forms. This gave me a different natural look with more pink and it was a little bit stronger than the first try. However, both looked great and even more natural than what I usually received at the nail salon.