15 Day Nail Challenge – Day 10 Gradient

Gradient nails! In the last few months gradient nails have become extremely popular, especially when Sammy from the Nailasaurus posted her fabulous tutorial which made it even easier for people to do the gradient manicure even with creme polishes! 

I have tried to do a gradient with creme polishes several times but it has never turned out very well. I will keep trying though! 

 

For today’s manicure I did a simple nude to blue gradient with some glitter to help tie it all together. I really like how it turned it! I can’t decide if it looks more like a starry sky or ice. If you had longer nails than me, you could do it so that the blue is just on the tip of your nail like more of a French manicure. Enjoy!

 

 

I started out with a base of a Color Club sheer French manicure pink then added a mixture of blue polishes with a sponge to create the basic gradient. I then added some of Color Club’s Beyond The Mistletoe and finally Revlon’s Belle.

 

I can’t believe how quickly this challenge is going! I am absolutely loving seeing everyone’s different designs. Come back tomorrow to see day 11 which is Metallic nails!

 

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15 Day Nail Challenge – Day 6 Glitter

Today is day 6 of Makeup Savvy’s 15 Day Nail Challenge! So far I have taken part in days 3, 4 and 5 so please have a look if you haven’t already. I was totally unsure about what to do for today. I love glitter but no ideas were coming to me so I just sat down with some polishes and this is the result!

It started out as a grey to black gradient but the sponges that I used were not reacting very well with the polish meaning that bits of sponge had stuck to my nails in places. I didn’t want to start over though so I added a coat of a dense silver glitter from No. 7 that I got in a mini set around Christmas. Although it is still a bit lumpy, the glitter and a couple of coats of top coat helped to even thinks out a little bit. It looks much smoother in real life. 

 

 

 

I could have just used an opaque glitter and be done with it but I am trying to challenge myself to create more nail art rather than just painting my nails with simple colours. I have to admit that after the disaster of this gradient I am not looking forward to the gradient day!

 

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