Today's "You've Been Duped" features artist Kelly Rowland's checkerboard accent manicure. This manicure was actually a reader request so Missy, enjoy.  :)  This design is really fairly easy to dupe.  All it takes is a white nail polish, a black nail polish, a fine point sharpie (which I had to substitute because I couldn't find mine), and if you prefer, black striper paint to fill in.

First, to start off this mani I applied my basecoat of choice to my clean nails and allowed them to dry.  I then proceeded to paint the nail I wanted to be the accent nail white while painting all the others black.

After painting all the nails their appropriate color I began to draw my black checkered boxes (with my fine point pen) in the places in which I wanted them to go.

After I had completely drawn out all of my boxes I then filled them in with my striper paint.  This was to cover up the places in which the ink from the pen did not fill completely.  You can actually use a bigger sharpie to this.  Generally when using a sharpie in the first place this is not an issue, but because I couldn't find my sharpie I had to improvise.

After I had gotten the design completely filled in how it should be... I applied a glossy topcoat to finish things off, snapped a picture, and VOILA!

I really needed to sharpen up the edges of the boxes a bit, but being crunched for time I couldn't do so.  Missy I hope this was helpful to you to see how simple it can be to execute this design and I hope the rest of you find this post useful as well.

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