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"  Remember in middle school when you painted your tips with Bic&amp;#039;s Wite-Out instead of paying attention in math class? Well, the days of whiting out your nails are back in full force. &amp;quot;White polish on your fingers and toes is mod, clean-looking, and very popular during summer months [for starters, it makes you look sunkissed instantly!], and it&amp;#039;s a great canvas for nail art,&amp;quot; says Tracylee, nail guru and Sally Hansen ambassador, who painted Cosmo&amp;#039;s September cover girl Nina Dobrev&amp;#039;s nails with the chic shade. &amp;quot;But the coolest thing about this color is that if you&amp;#039;re not ready to go stark white, you can opt for iridescent white shades, which will give a similar, yet less intense effect.&amp;quot; But while white lacquer is super hot right now, its chip-rate is about 100 percent, since it&amp;#039;s highly pigmented and opaque. And, when it starts to come off, it&amp;#039;s highly noticeable, which makes you look, well, unpolished. So, we asked Tracylee to give us the secret to keeping your mod mani in tact for more than a week. &amp;quot;First you&amp;#039;re going to want to take off your old nail polish with remover and then swipe your nailbeds with a cotton ball covered in rubbing alcohol. Nail polish remover has conditioning agents that are left behind on your nail, which leads to improper adhesion. The rubbing alcohol clears away any of these conditioning agents so that your basecoat sticks better to your tips,&amp;quot; explains Tracylee. &amp;quot;After applying your basecoat, always coat the free edge (aka the very tip) of your nail with polish first, and then paint the rest of your nailbed. Capping the tip of your nail minimizes the amount of chipping, since you&amp;#039;re essentially sealing the polish on your nail,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;Lastly, it&amp;#039;s a good idea to reapply your topcoat every two to three days. This just strenghthens the barrier that protects your polish from chipping,&amp;quot; adds Tracylee. For a hot-right-now white polish to paint on asap, try Sally Hansen&amp;#039;s Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Nail Color in White On, $3, drugstore.com, which also happens to be the exact lacquer that Tracylee used on Nina&amp;#039;s nails below. Here&amp;#039;s a closer, behind-the-scenes look at the Vampire Diaries star&amp;#039;s white tips, complete with the intricate nail art that was applied for our shoot.          Cosmo Behind-the-scenes Picture of the Day: Nail Art! White+silver color blocking w/ carefully placed silver diamonds! @luxebytracylee #fun A photo posted by Nina Dobrev (@ninadobrev) on Aug 6, 2013 at 6:02pm PDT     Will you be swiping on white nail polish for your beach vacay this summer? Photo Credit: Matthias Vriens-McGrath Follow Carly Cardellino on Facebook and Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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