Oh man, it's getting super hard to keep coming up with ideas so I'm just going to keep on plumbing different techniques. I'm super into sponge gradients these days so I thought I'd try my hand at overlaid gradients, in rainbows of course because they're the best. And that way, I get to show off my giraffe ring! We all win! Well, we would have had I taken more care to remove the yellow polish stains from my fingers :/
To start, I applied two coats of my new white, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls. Everyone seems to be using it these days and I can see why, it's one of the nicer, more even whites I've used in a while. Next, I loaded up a makeup sponge with stripes of China Glaze Pool Party and Surfin' for Boys and American Apparel Neon Yellow to create the underlying gradient. I'm getting pretty good at gradients these days, I find that I just need the two coats of gradient. Makes things quicker. After a coat of Seche Vite, I applied my criss-crosses of striping tape and liberally applied China Glaze I'm with the Lifeguard and Towel Boy Toy, with American Apparel Neon Violet. I wasn't having much luck with getting opacity in reasonable time with the sponge (getting the tape off doesn't work well if the polish fully dries) so I cheated and just painted the stripes on. Works if you don't look too close. Finally, finally, a coat of Essie Matte About You because I'm obsessed with it.
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The Verdict: Eh. The underlying gradient didn't come out with enough colour delineation, the orange and green aren't great together and my clean-up job was terrible. I want to try this again though, maybe with a black and white gradient over a strong red base colour. Could be interesting. No hate on Matte About You though.
To start, I applied two coats of my new white, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls. Everyone seems to be using it these days and I can see why, it's one of the nicer, more even whites I've used in a while. Next, I loaded up a makeup sponge with stripes of China Glaze Pool Party and Surfin' for Boys and American Apparel Neon Yellow to create the underlying gradient. I'm getting pretty good at gradients these days, I find that I just need the two coats of gradient. Makes things quicker. After a coat of Seche Vite, I applied my criss-crosses of striping tape and liberally applied China Glaze I'm with the Lifeguard and Towel Boy Toy, with American Apparel Neon Violet. I wasn't having much luck with getting opacity in reasonable time with the sponge (getting the tape off doesn't work well if the polish fully dries) so I cheated and just painted the stripes on. Works if you don't look too close. Finally, finally, a coat of Essie Matte About You because I'm obsessed with it.
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The Verdict: Eh. The underlying gradient didn't come out with enough colour delineation, the orange and green aren't great together and my clean-up job was terrible. I want to try this again though, maybe with a black and white gradient over a strong red base colour. Could be interesting. No hate on Matte About You though.
So cheerie! Love them! I kinda feel the opposite. I find that orange and green do look great together. Haha! Like a forestry theme or something. So yeah. All in all, I think these are great combo! ♥
ReplyDeleteI think it is genius! :D
ReplyDeleteI also really like how it turned out. It is kinda tye dye sorta look.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE this!!! It is so clever and the colour choices are fabulous!!!! If I was a braver person I would definitely try this. Love love love!!
ReplyDeletethis is my fave so far. the thing i adore of you is how colorfull u can be. looks are always perfect. wow! you are steps beyond. would love to have u in my blog :)
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