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August 2013 Nail Art Challenge: Gradient and Recreation
Aug
Since doing Serum, I haven’t had as much time to do nail art or really swatch the many bottles of untrieds I have. Luckily there’s a person on Instagram that goes by Californails that creates monthly nail art challeges. Not a daily-who-has-time-for-that challenge, but something more flexible for those that don’t have time to do it on the daily. So here’s August’s challenge line up:
That doesn’t look too bad right?
So for gradient I took three colors from the OPI SF collection (A-Piers to be Tan, First Date on the Golden Gate and Lost on Lombard) to create a gradient. Definitely need more practice with gradients that consists of more than two colors.
Then I added another gradient on top of this using Serum No. 5 Burning Orchid and Sky Lights. I love how these completely transform the original gradient and makes it all so sparkly and shimmery.
And here’s the glow shot:
It’s the second challenge of the month and already I’m a day late -_- But I’m busy making polishes and planning the FW13 line, so I think I can be excused, right? For recreation, I decided to recreate a mani of My Nails are Dope, I follow her on Tumblr and Instagram and I’m always amazed with her mix and match and chain manis.
Here, I used Zoya Avery and China Glaze White on White (striped thumb), some pearls and gold chains.
I’m planning to do a lot more of these challenges, one because I’ve been really rusty with nail art and two it’ll give me more things to share with you! Hope you all get in on the fun!
The best thing about gradient technique is that it creates the best designs with minimum effort. They can also be used as a base pattern for adding dimension for simple looks. I love the second look too. It is soo edgy.
Hello! where have you bought the gold chain for nails? thank you!
I got them from Born Pretty http://www.bornprettystore.com