At the weekend I went shopping for a few office supplies and amongst my basket of envelopes, parcel bags and pencils was a pack of chunky permanent marker pens. Now, I spend a lot of time on Pinterest, (I’ve just been invited to join this nail art bloggers group eek my nails are nothing compared to these!) and have seen lots of pins advertising metallic Sharpie pens for use for nail art. And my next thought was ‘why not use normal market pens then?’. Could this be the cheapest nail art yet? I got a pack of 4 pens in different colours for 99p! So I thought I’d try out the marker-pen method with my fresh new pens and see how easy it was, how long it lasted and whether it stained my nails eek! And here are the results:
I found that the application process was super-easy because basically you’re just drawing on your nails. As long as you’ve got a steady hand, you’ll be fine drawing on stripes, a pattern or this season’s bright french manicure. Obviously, I found it a lot more fiddly with the hand I don’t normally use, so maybe get a pal to help, or only use an easy pattern such as the spots. I found that the marker pen gave different color results depending on the base polish, and the blue pen had a purply-sheen (like you sometimes get from writing with biros). I liked how this looked with my turquoise Missguided polish in ‘Misstique’ (always use a base coat with this dark polish – it does stain!).
