Nail Artist Madeline Poole on How to Get the Manicure of the Moment

Nail Artist Madeline Poole on How to Get the Manicure of the Moment.

Of wringing blue amoeba sky with colorful geometric shapes, charming nail art Madeline Poole is a familiar sight backstage at shows like Prabal Gurung and 3.1 Phillip Lim. But of all intelligent designs manicure and Publishing Ambassador Sally Hansen he has unveiled its most capricious proposal that could be bad traditional eye, neatly tucked against the base of each cuticle-a motif that has gone on to become a fashion rule throughout phenomenon, appearing on the runways at Kenzo and Tomé and offering a blatant complement rings jewelry Delettrez Delfina eyes.

It was three years ago, ahead of the fashion week spring New York, Poole first put together look. "I wanted the evil eyes on my nails to ward off bad energy during this extreme weather," she says of the Surrealists voyeurs, who has reimagined here for Vogue.com in a palette of bright spring. Inspired by neighborhood watch signs and eyeball child scribbles "I drew and scribbled on each piece of paper that was put before me!" - The versatile design half moon intends to imitate the natural curve of the cuticle and requires minimal retouching to keep fit.

How to get the look? According to Poole, a round, even cuticle is the key, the best way with an orange stick and gently polished. Poole then uses a striping brush to draw a crescent shape to be filled with gel polish, and outlines a small circle in the middle of a bit of shine. Once these elements are dry, a small black point becomes the student, and the whole mixture is completed with a layer of transparent gel.

It's a look that even neophytes nail art can be left behind. "I knew when I finished the first hand that were important," says Poole. "Usually you can tell right away when I caught gold."