Ombré Nails

Hey guys,

I hope you have all had a great week! Mine was brilliant as I passed my driving test! I'm super happy, and now I get to just go anywhere I want! (Within reason, as I'm just using my mum's car for now!) But still, woo, freedom!

I took the photos for this post a little while ago, when I posted my last nail idea. I thought using the colour wheels would make it easier to take the photos, and that my camera would focus better, but sadly, no.

To start with, I painted the whole nail in a shimmery dark blue. You could use any colour for this idea, but since blue is my go-to colour, here it is!

To add the white at one end, I used a small make-up sponge that I ripped a small section off of, and put a small 'puddle' of white polish on an old plate so that it would be easier to put onto the sponge. It creates a stippled look, which I thought was quite cool, but if you wanted it to be smooth, a top coat would sort it. You just have to keep dabbing a little bit of white, or lighter blue, at the end of the nail until you get the desired effect. It's kind of down to personal preference as to how dark/light you want it.

This next bit is totally optional, I just wanted to kind of incorporate a second design into one, so that it was a bit longer, and more interesting. You don't actually have to put it all together on one nail.

I decided to add a line of small gems along the base of the nail, and up the centre to give it a bit more glam, for if you were going out somewhere and wanted it a bit more special looking. Just having the line along the base, I think, looks pretty nice.Adding the line up, and the spots, I think, over-did it a bit, but then, that might just be my opinion!
 

Sorry this post didn't go up yesterday. I'm having a bit of blogger block at the moment! Also, well done to my friend Mollie, who guessed the last language was Finnish!I hope you all have a lovely week!

Love, Grace x

Nail Power!

Hey guys,

Guess who forgot to take photos until 5 o'clock today... This girl *points thumbs at self*... fun times. Although, I did make some tasty cupcakes. So I guess something good came out of it.

This post will probably fail, because, to be honest, I'm not all that great at doing nail designs anymore. I used to do some good ones, when I was 13/14, but I think I've just gotten out of the practise of it.

The first one is supposed to be a galaxy look. It started off ok, when I had only done the base coat, because it was just a base coat. It then proceeded to go downhill from there really. I wanted it to look all cool and hipster like all the photos on

This was what it actually looked like:

Please ignore the random bit of fluff that decided to position itself right at the end of the nail and only make itself visible in the photos afterwards...

I tore a makeup sponge (that I hadn't used) up and used the rougher edges to dab the blue, purple and white onto the dark background in a kind of galaxy-ish pattern. (not really a pattern at all) It actually looked really cool at that point, It was blended and splodged pretty well, and I was actually pretty impressed with myself. That was, until I tried to add some glitter and poured it into a big mound in the middle...

I didn't use all of the polishes in the photo above, and unfortunately, I'm out babysitting at the moment so don't have access to them to tell you what they're all called. If I remember to add it tomorrow then I will, however, it is highly unlikely.

The torn up makeup sponge actually provided a pretty good stippling sponge for the 'clouds' of colour as it had a quite nice rough texture. This meant that when I painted some polish directly onto it, there were still spaces that meant the colour wasn't totally overpowering.

I reckon that the design would look a lot cooler actually on my nails, because there would be a group of them all together. However, I think I might leave out the glitter next time and just go for a plain top coat!

I hope you all have a lovely week!

Love, Grace x