How to: VMA nail trend

Nail trends have been blowing up the last year. What has been a way to give constant color has now changed into a fashion accessory all on its own.

Actresses at the VMAs on Sunday gave popularity to one nail trend that you will undoubtedly live in the rest of 2014: the striped nail.

For those of us who are working professionals, this nail style is great because it allows you to be fashionable while losing none of your sophisticated edge. Fashion movements have to be carefully translated in business attire settings. But this one lets your creativity run free! (Given you decide on appropriate colors for your office.)

Just think of pinstripe pants...but for your nails!

In general striped nails offer tons of versatility and options. The type of stripe, amount of stripes and pairings are limitless. Especially with the colorful focus this fall has, you will have lots of color options.

Striped nails do sound intimidating. I don't know about you, but I can't draw a straight line to save my life.

Thankfully some people are skilled at this and post videos to give us less artistic ones a way to rock this without having to constantly spend money at the nearest nail salon.

These are the best videos I found. The directions do not take too much money or time. I will be trying the techniques with fall colors and posting pictures this weekend so we can all see how effective these options really are.

If you try these out, let me know how it goes! (The second video shows the stripe technique until 1:19.)