Hello Nailphiles! Long time no see!

Sorry for my unexpected hiatus – I know I promised I would be posting more… but sometimes life happens and you get distracted.

But today i’m back, and i’m here to show you my nails of the day! Even though its the first week of September, and the weather is cooling off, and kids are back in school – i’m not yet ready to give up on summer nails! I really loved all of the bright and fun summer polishes I bought this summer, and i’m not quite ready to push them to the back of the drawer for the winter. See, where i’m at – it feels like 8 months of the year are winter, and its depressing to think i’ll be banishing such pretty polishes for so long. I hope to get at least a few more summery manis before the leaves start falling.

I’ve been eyeing all the lovely tribal trends this summer in envy, and decided it was finally time to give it a shot. I’m still have pretty shaky hands when it comes to free-hand nail art, but it helped that these only required straight lines 😉

… So without further ado – my first attempt at tribal-esque nails (inspired by @TrendyPolish on Instragram!)

So here they are!

As always, I prepped my canvas with a nail treatment ( OPI – Nail Envy ) and a base coat ( CND – Stickey )

) and a base coat ( ) I started with 1 coat of Essie – Sugar Daddy on my middle, ring and thumb to help create the negative space effect, and 2 coats of OPI – Live Love Carnival on my index and pinkie.

on my middle, ring and thumb to help create the negative space effect, and 2 coats of on my index and pinkie. then, I went back to my middle/ring/thumb, and laid 2 pieces of striping tape down – and painted the top and bottom sections with OPI – Live Love Carnival , leaving the middle section bare

, leaving the middle section bare once dried, I drew in the tribal design on with the tip of my striping brush and Sally Hansen – Black Out, and dotted my index and pinkie.

… And that’s it! These were rather easy to do, just required a lot of patience on my part.

Hope you all enjoyed, thanks for stopping by!