I've been sporting English themed nails recently in support of the England team at the Euros. I'm quite pleased with the design because it's one of the few that I've come up with myself (mostly I get inspiration from nail artists online).
The England flags were done with a white base coat and a red striper polish. If you don't have a striper polish you could use a thin brush or even a normal nail polish brush if it doesn't splay out too much.
The Union Jack flags were done in two different ways, I will post a tutorial for the way I found easiest soon.
The lion was done with a blue striper polish. I started by making an upside down triangle and then I rounded each of the sides slightly. I then added the ears and fluffy bits with smaller strokes. I was planning on adding the detail to the face with a white striper but it was too small and fiddly so I used a toothpick dipped in white polish. When using a tooth pick to do designs you have to sort of dot it on rather than draw but it does give you more control than a brush. I did the red tongue in the same way.
For the rose I made 5 blobs in a circle using the normal brush from a red polish. Once they were dry I made a white blob in the middle of them. I then made a yellow dot in the middle using a bobby pin dipped in yellow polish. For the leaves I used a green striper polish.
In case you don't recognise the designs on the thumbs, they are both from the crest on the England football shirt pictured below.
(Photo from http://shopaholic.become.co.uk/)
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