another attempt at the gradient nail effect.
Ok, Ok, I know I've tried it a lot of times now...
I got a bit bored of just having plain gradient nails, so decided to spice it up a little with some tiger stripes.
FUN!
So another nail trend I've recently discovered is "grunge nails"
which has epic nail art pictures - go on check them out
through them I found these nails
Ok- not a fan on the pointyness but the colours look cool
and these nails
Which are super pretty and look sort of like sunset.
So I decided to try "grunge nails" out for myself.
My first attempt was a little off - I think I used too many colours and layers (so it went a bit lumpy and gooey)
I used:
1) Bling Bright Blue
2) Australis Blackmail
3) Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow
4) OPI A Roll in the Hague
5) Sally Hansen Fuchsia Bling Bling
6) Revlon No Shrinking Violet
after applying all six layers I dipped a paint brush in nail polish remover and swirled it around the nail.
It was much harder than the tutorial's made it sound - it took a while before I saw any new colours and I ended up with a lot of gooey nail polish piled up around the coloured spot.
See this picture
The effect was cool - and if they had all turned out looking like this nail (most of them turned into brown gooey mess) I may have kept the polish on.
but I decided to remove all the polish and
Try Again
and this time - It worked!
well - it was much better than before
I used:
1) Sally Hansen Fuchsia Bling Bling
2) Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow
3) OPI A Roll in the Hague
I then found a more-bristly brush and followed the same steps.
admittedly afterwards I did dab a tiny bit of pink back onto the nail - as I got a bit too excited with the remover and had bits of NailSkin showing.
I like the finished look
So as seen before I have found Ombré nails.
This is take two
For this beautiful creation I used:
OPI: Nail Envy weak and peeling as base coat
Bling: Bright Blue (as my base colour)
Revlon: midnight affair (as a dark in-between blue)
Australis: Blackmail (as the dark tip colour)
Revlon: colorstay topcoat
First: I painted the base coat and base colour (all of my nail bright blue)
DRY TIME! (make sure the polish is dry to touch - or it comes off on the sponge)
Then: I painted three stripes (of my blue shades) on to a sponge.
The colours overlapped slightly
Then: I "stamped" the sponge on to each finger and gave a little wiggle - to get a really smudgy look
Finally I actually took the black polish and painted the very tips of my nails so it's really dark
then: topcoated it.
just after I topcoated I bumped my nail - so I didn't have a super smooth finish!
I was going to apply another layer of topcoat, but instead decided to apply a layer of shimmer.
This is Revlon: Colada Fizz over the top
Love these nails this time!!
the colours are perfect.
next time I think I'll try an orange and white.
I first saw Ombré Nails while cruising the Internet looking at funky nail art.
I then came across this blog which had some explanation on how to achieve this look.
I tried following their directions (and it didn't work!)
in the end up did it like this.
First: I painted my nails with my usual OPI nail envy base coat
then painted my nails with Revlon pure pearl (my base colour)
(sorry no photo here)
Then: I found an old clear file sheet (any plasticy sheet will work)and poured a few drops of Revlon electric pink on to the plastic
I used a make-up sponge to dab the nail polish (in really light layers) onto the nail.
Then: I did about a zillion layers (they were really sheer) doing more layers as I got closer to the tip of my nail.
after this my entire finger-tips were a mess.
I just used a nail-polish remover soaked cotton bud to remove the excess polish around my nails.
The nails looked pretty average and fuzzy (from the sponge)
Finally: after a generous layer of Revlon colorstay topcoat they looked amazing!
(I used a "generous" amount so I could avoid smudging the colours too much)
This is the final result.
I like.
I'm not entirely sure on the colour choice though - I think it'd be fun with a variety of different colours.
Also: after my improvised process I found this really useful directional:
Think I'll try this way out next time - and maybe a different sponge
