Mandy's Polish: Ombre

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Lazy Days of Summer: Summer Ombre

I have another LDoS challenge mani for you. Ombre's are so much fun. They are a little work if you are like me and don't have a large stash of polishes with different shades of the same color. I used just one polish for this mani. You can see my other Ombre HERE which has a link to the tutorial I used. However, I had to go a different route with this color. Turns out you can't add black to an orange neon. Ask me how I know! So, I started on my thumb with the color at full strength and then added white as I went to each nail. I like how it turned out. The color is a little out of my comfort zone but when it isn't so "in your face" it's a nice touch of summer. What do you think?

Base Coat: Rejuvacote

Base Color: Color Club Lava Lamp

Top Coat: Seche Vite

I have such a hard time photographing my right hand. I can never get my fingers to line up how I want. This is the best I could do, sorry. I will keep practicing and hopefully it won't look so awkward.

Thanks for stopping in to see my nails!!

Check out the other gals doing the challenge

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

ASBMF #6: Ombre

I have another April Showers Bring May Flowers Challenge mani. Number 6 on the list is Ombre. I of course, have never done one before. Surprised? I would think not. My stash is not huge and I don't have many variations of the same color. Actually, I don't think I have any. I don't buy a polish for the name or bottle. If I have some thing like it at home, I will pass. I gotta keep things under control over here. One of the gals in the group posted a link showing how to do an Ombre with just on color. YAY!! You can take a look at it HERE. Super simple and fun. I chose to go blue using SC Midnight Blue. It's really pretty and a one coater. I didn't want to have to do 2 coats of a polish I was mixing by hand. I used my black and white striper polishes for the add ins. They are nice and thick which means my one coater would stay that way. I don't have a paint palette or tiny containers, so I just mixed mine on my plastic mat that I use when I paint my nails. Worked just fine. I had an empty bottle of SV so that gave me a clean polish brush. I did exactly as the directions said. Painted my middle fingers with the original blue. Put some on my mat, added a drop of black, mixed and painted my ringer fingers. Added more blue to my mat and added 2 drops of black, and painted my pinkies. Did the same with the white, one drop added for my pointer fingers and 2 drops added for my thumbs. I think it came out great, for a first timer. What do you think?