How To: Fishtail Braid Manicure

 Fishtail Braid Manicure

Have you seen this manicure everywhere lately? I sure have. It's hit YouTube, Pinterest and the blogosphere with the quickness! I have been thinking about trying it for awhile but just never got around to it. Well last night the lovely ladies over at WyoSparkles started sharing their pictures on Instagram of their very own "Fishtail Manicures" and I was inspired NAILSPIRED! Even though it pained me to take off my *Mani Monday Manicure* which I loved, I knew that if there was a new trend hitting the nail polish world that I ABSOLUTELY had to share it with all of you. It's actually a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. So let's get to it. 

How To: Fishtail Braid Manicure

It was seriously A LOT easier than I thought it was going to be. You basically pick three colors, I chose all Julep polishes {Gayle(purple), Robin (blue) & Blake (yellow)} and used Gayle (purple) as my base color. You put on two coats of that for Step 1 and then for Steps 2-8 you take all three colors and basically paint on a basket weaving (or braided) pattern. You really don't have to worry about the thickness of the lines as you go because as you can see with each new line you can navigate how much you want to show of the previous color. The best part is, you don't have to wait for each color to dry fully, just give it a minute and when it gets to the sticky stage feel free to move on with the next color. I'll list the order so you can get a better idea.

1. Gayle
2. Robin
3. Blake
4. Gayle
5. Robin
6. Blake
7. Gayle
8. Robin
9. Blake

I honestly thought it was going to be so much harder but after you get that first X pattern you are good to go and can just weave accordingly. I had a lot of fun with this manicure. I have seen some people doing it on their whole hand but that seemed like it would be too much for me, plus I have no patience so I probably would have thrown things. Hopefully, you'll all get a chance to try out this fun new manicure and definitely tweet me pictures if you do!!

Do you love it or hate it? Are you going to rock this look?

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xo, Jersey Girl