Nail designs for short nails

Did someone say you cannot create nail designs for short nails? Don’t worry if you have short nails and you don’t want to take any additional risks of gluing acrylic onto your fingers. You can definitely make beautiful nail designs for short nails if you take the time sit down and patiently work through your design. Remember, short’s decorated with art look very pretty. There are a few in-house techniques that you can use to create coveted designs.

Animal Spots
Leopard, cheetah or jaguar spots make great nail designs for short nails. There are two methods to accomplish this look.
a. Get a set of polish strips. These come ready made with prints on them. All you have to do is to stick these onto your’s and heat them with your hands by rubbing on them. The prints will stay on it.
b. This method calls for the use of a base coat, preferably gold, and dots of yellowish-brown in irregular shapes. Use a darker brown to create short outlines around the shapes. Wait for it to dry and apply a top coat to protect it.

Broken Glass
These nail designs for short nails are very easy to make as they come bottled ready made. Many big brands of polish have created shatter polish (though each prefers to call it by a different name). The best thing about this design is that it is self applying. As usual, apply the base coat. Apply a coat for background color. Then apply a liberal coat of your ‘shatter’ polish. In a few seconds your paint will dry into a broken glass design that will be unique and beautiful.

Zebra Stripes and Squares
You will need a good vibrant shade or a nice metallic color to form the base of your design. Pick up a contrasting color and draw vertical or horizontal lines on it. Allow to dry. You are free to draw perpendicular lines with the same color or a different to create squares. This is one of the easy nail designs for short nails.

You’ve discovered 3 great designs for short nails. You can try variations of these to create more nail designs for short nails. One example would be to use a different base coat for every nail in the shatter design for it.