Practicing nails

I have written a previous post showing some examples of tribal nails. After speaking with my lecturer she told me to try and experiment with different styles. My sister is a beautician and also specialises in nails so she gave me tips on how to create some tribal looking shapes onto the nails. I roughly played around with my nails the other night whilst blogging, I simply used a plain coloured base coat and carefully designed patterns on top using a thin permanent marker. Although its not very professional to be using a marker pen, my sister advised me that its the easiest and neatest way you can draw shapes onto the nails. Tribal patterns include a lot of triangles, circles and small dots so using a marker pen was the quickest thing to use. Especially if I am rushing on a shoot.