Two-toned scaled gradient waves

Back in the gradient biz woop woop! Finally feels like home. For this week's edition of the weekly nail art challenge (WNAC) I co-host on Instagram along with Kristin of Lacquerstyle and Tracey of MissBellaTracey, the theme is summer and the prompt is cobalt and and peach! I actually listened this time and did exactly that.

This two-toned scaled gradient is super trippy but easier than it looks! You do need nicely opaque creme polishes though for this to work, which I found!! These two Floss Gloss orange creme are sooooo opaque they actually make me consider liking creme polishes almost as much as holo (but still no).

 

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How NOT to do complicated gradient nails

Did you know I was human? Yes, that's right, I have tons of nail fails too! I get the feeling that most nail artists don't show you when they f up, even during a nail art tutorial that turned out great (those clips got cut on the editing room floor, as they say). And even when the final end result is complete and a major fail, most nail artists just delete those pics (or don't take any at all) and pretend like it never happened. NOT ME!

In today's tutorial I show you how I attempted a more "complicated" layered gradient (reciprocal returning gradient would be the proper term), and where I messed up at multiple points along the way. This is the actual TRUTH OF DOING NAIL ART people! I'm using this "nail fail" for this week's weekly nail art challenge (WNAC) manis I co-host the WNAC on Instagram along with lovely ladies Kristin of Lacquerstyle and Tracey of MissBellaTracey - geometric gradient!

 

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Intricate diamond geometric design

Welcome to the first of June's weekly nail art challenge (WNAC) manis! I co-host the WNAC on Instagram along with lovely ladies Kristin of Lacquerstyle and Tracey of MissBellaTracey and basically it just forces me to do nail art at least once a week cause I get too easily distracted by NAIL PORNNNNN.

Here's some trippy geometric design inspired by one of Lucy's Stash's manis from long ago! I totally love the way it looks like a 3D cube, but I added a gradient behind the pattern and changed the orientation of the diamond strands on Lucy's original mani from horizontal to vertical.

 

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Colourblind eye test dotticure

Time to test your eyesight... what shapes do you see? Nothing? Not seeing anything yet? Ya me neither, but whatever, here's some confusing dottier fishtail nails!

Last Friday for the weekly nail art challenge I co-host on Instagram I did up some bright & black neon fishtail nails as a second attempt because THIS (down below) was my first attempt, and I was like, k no, ew. In my video tutorial on YouTube I asked you guys if you cared to see a tutorial for this dotticure that looks like those colourblind tests, and many of you said yes??? Why?? JUST WHY??? In any case, here it is!!

Floss Gloss 'Lean'

 

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Neon fishtail gradient with an edge

Neon nails again! This time a bit more bad ass-ey, with some black glitterness going on here. This week's weekly nail art challenge (WNAC) that I co-host on Instagram along with lovely ladies Kristin of Lacquerstyle and Tracey of MissBellaTracey is neon + fishtail. I'm not even sure this is a fishtail mani... braid? Herringbone? Whatever, I'm pretending it's all the same.

I used three gawwwwgeous summer-ready neon polishes from Live Love Polish, and NARS 'Night breed' on top. I used stripe nail vinyls from Twinkled T to give me those clean lines, I chose these slightly thicker ones than striping tape to allow more of the pretty gradient underneath to show. You can use my code SIMPLY for 10% off your order on all nail art stuffs from www.twinkledt.com too, YAYYY

Floss Gloss 'Wet' - the perfect neon aqua creme!

 

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