Woven Striping Tape + Tutorial

This is one of those ideas that strikes you first thing in the morning, just out of no where. You think it's a great idea, but probably going to be an epic fail once you try it. This time it worked out for me though! I'm so happy with how it looks and I hope I can explain it in a way you can recreate it for yourself.

Paint your base polish. Here I used 2 coats of China Glaze Dance Baby. Then apply a fast dry topcoat. I used Seche Vite. This steps helps to speed things up and you can move on to applying the tape strips.

Then cut rough lengths of striping tape and start at the cuticle. Apply one color of striping tape horizontally. Apply a 2nd color strip of tape lengthwise. Just lightly press them down.

  

Apply all of the lengthwise pieces and lightly press down. Arrange them so that they alternate going over or under the horizontal piece.

You'll probably find it easier to use tweezers to apply the tape.

Using your tweezers, pull back every other strip just to where the horizontal piece is.

Stick down another piece of the horizontal color. Put it on top of the pieces that are still lying flat, yet make sure it goes under the pieces you previously pulled up.

 Repeat the process going down the length of the nail. 

Then clip off all the little ends that hang off and topcoat.

Here maybe you can see the pattern better because there isn't a glare off of the tape.



What do you think? I wouldn't recommend doing all of your nails this way, that would be awfully time consuming! Maybe stick to an accent nail or two? Enjoy!