DIY Nail Art: Easy, Step-by-Step Instructions for 75 Creative Nail Art Designs Paperback – Illustrated, January 18, 2013

Bought as a gift, kid loved it great for anyone starting out

It's going to help with my creativity skills

This is my first nail art book, since I'm a beginner, and overall I am mostly happy with this purchase. I have the Kindle version and I think it's a great value for the price. The designs included are very nice - I won't be using all of them, but certainly a great many of them. They are also very well explained using step-by-step pictures. I am giving it four stars instead of five for two reasons. First, there is really a lack in technique. Although there are a variety of designs, there are all freehand artwork, and there are designs missing that take advantage of other techniques such as masking and designs using the fan brush. Second, the book is very poorly structured. With this many designs, they should be split up into chapters, such as animal print, holiday, flowers/nature, etc. I appreciate having all the designs in one place (as opposed to bookmarking all over the internet#, but I am already seeing that I will have a hard time quickly finding designs that I like, or designs that all fall into one category that I'm looking for #e.g. holiday nails#. It should be very easy for the publisher to arrange these designs into chapters, and having a couple pages that show all the designs with their title would be very helpful too. Again, this would aid the reader in quickly finding designs since there are so many to choose from #which is s good thing!).

I purchased this for my 10-year old little sister who loves to paint her nails and switch up the designs all the time. She loves to make up new ideas to try on her nails, but she trouble taking her ideas and putting them to work in real life, so I got her this book. I will update this with her reaction once I present it to her, but for now, let me say that I think it is the best Nail Art instruction book I have seen. It is good for all ages, from 10 years old to adults. I have not seen a majority of the designs in this book, which is a good thing. And ones that I am familiar with but had no idea how to do, taught me how to do them easily. There are a ton of pictures to follow along with, and the instructions are easy as pie. The book is well made and durable. The cover is glossy and the pages are matte and thick. I recommend this book to any beginner wanting to try more advanced nail art designs but in an easy way. This book seems to be the perfect guide, and I have a feeling that my sis will love it!

This book is pretty cool, however some of the designs just seem to be repeated using different colors. Like, a tiger and then a tiger with purple on it. they differ slightly but overall kinda the same. Seems like even on the different designs they just have repeating patterns, like a section with stripes and one with cheetah, then the next one is cheetah with dots, then the next is dots with stripes. so overall, i'd probably not get it for anyone and if i had known there were so many of the kind of same, i wouldn't have bought it myself.

This book is excellent. The pictures are in color (which is so much better than a previous book I returned because the pictures were only black and white) and the descriptions of the process for completing the nail art are very detailed. It will be a gift for an 11 year old girl and I think she will love it. I had to purchase it as a used book, but it arrived in excellent condition and very quickly. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone, beginners or experienced, in nail art. The book was sent through Thrift Books and I would recommend them also.

Granddaughter is in to nail art. Liked easy suggestions for holidays & such.

This was a great purchase! Super fun for different ideas for mail art and step by step help!