Tuesday 24 April 2012

Pink Ombre Nails


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A mini nail tutorial for you today! The 'Ombre' trend has been floating around for a year or so now and has really started to surface recently. I love it, and I love any excuse to wear it, so here's my diy creation!

-To start I pained my nails with a base coat of white, I used natural collection - who needs a high end white ey? cheap and cheerful! This base coat will help the top colour stand out.
- I then painted three stripes of my favourite nail polishes onto a make-up sponge, I tried to pick colours that would blend into each other nicely, in this case a pink a peach and a lilac.
- To apply your ombre effect, dab the sponge onto your nail, making sure you dab in the same place each time! I allowed this to dry and applied it a second time to make sure the colour was really vivid. Don't worry about making a mess around your nails!
- Clean up the edges with some nail varnish remover and cotton wool,
(or a little tip I use, wait for it to dry fully and wash it off while you're in the shower with hot soapy water)
- Apply a glossy top coat and you're good to go!

I hope this is inspiration for you on a rainy Tuesday :)

14 comments:

  1. Love the look of this! I keep telling myself that I HAVE to let my natural nails grow (have gels at the mo) to a good healthy length and then i can try all the nail art I want!
    Bookmarking this to try :-)
    xx

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  2. They look great! :)
    http://gigglesandmakeup.blogspot.com/

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  3. Great tutorial, ombre nails are so pretty ! xx

    butterfleyesblog.blogspot.com

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  4. This is fab. Love the colours.
    my-own-treasurechest.blogspot.com
    xo

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  5. how clever, using a sponge! I'm going to try this out for sure! x

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  6. These look fantastic, I can't believe how easy they were!! I must try this, thanks xx

    http://jessica-jjc.blogspot.co.uk/

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  7. These look so cool! I'm always so impatient with nail art though :( x

    themusingsofflorence.blogspot.co.uk/

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  8. This look really nice, I will give it a go. x

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  9. they look lush! such a simple idea!

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  10. Wow, I love this! Will definitely be trying it out :)

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  11. Ah I really like this! Great idea!

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  12. juuuust perfect..love ombre nails and asolutely loove your ombre hair :)we are your new followers, cuz you have really cool blog...if you want you can check out our blog and it will be really great if you could leave your comment on my first ombre nails :)have a great day dear ;)

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