Monday 27 April 2015

Yellow to Blue Gradient Topped with a Grid Design!

Hey everyone! Today I have a grid-topped gradient to share!

I meant to get this post up yesterday but I guess it's nice to have a bit of a break between my posts like usual! It sounds like there are going to be some volunteer opportunities open to me in a lab at my school which I'm really excited about! In the meantime I've been painting my family's and my nails and playing lots of Mario Party 10! If you follow me on Instagram you'll know I ordered the whole Hoop! There It Is collection from Girly Bits Cosmetics recently. I am beyond excited and it should be here any day now so get ready for either a huge swatch post featuring all eleven polishes or a few posts to break it up a bit!

Anyways, onto the nails!

Yellow to Blue Gradient Topped with a Grid Design Featuring American Apparel Polishes

I started off with two coats of OPI You're So Vain-illa and a coat of top coat. The formula was okay and it wasn't completely opaque at two coats, but it was good enough for the base of a gradient!

Yellow to Blue Gradient Topped with a Grid Design Featuring American Apparel Polishes

Next, I went in with a damp makeup sponge and American Apparel Sunshine State (yellow), American Apparel Cresent Heights (chartreuse) and China Glaze Wait N Sea (blue)! I sponged on two to three layers to get the opacity I wanted.

Yellow to Blue Gradient Topped with a Grid Design Featuring American Apparel Polishes

I like to apply a coat of top coat right after I've finished a gradient to try and blend the colours even further, so that's what I did next.

Yellow to Blue Gradient Topped with a Grid Design Featuring American Apparel Polishes

After that had dried, I went in with American Apparel Hassid and a striping brush from Winstonia Store to do all of the lines. Check out my Instagram if you'd like to see a sped up version of this whole process!

Yellow to Blue Gradient Topped with a Grid Design Featuring American Apparel Polishes

One thick and careful coat of top coat and I was finished! I realized later that these were probably subconsciously inspired by the awesome and hilarious Cynthia of Of Life and Lacquer's chain link fence gradient nails

Yellow to Blue Gradient Topped with a Grid Design Featuring American Apparel Polishes

I wore this look for about three days and I really loved doing so! I did these when I should have been studying and they took a decent amount of time so I'm glad I got some wear out of them!

Yellow to Blue Gradient Topped with a Grid Design Featuring American Apparel Polishes

Here is my right hand! I should probably try and find a pose that it is actually good at doing one day :P.

Yellow to Blue Gradient Topped with a Grid Design Featuring American Apparel Polishes

Thanks so much for taking a look everyone! I have a negative space rose look to get up next so stay tuned! Happy Monday y'all! =)

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