Gradient and chevron Nail Design
Here are the polishes and tools used for this gradient and chevron nail design:
Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.
Polishes- Revlon- Gold Coin, OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini, Zoya Sunshine- Delia, and China glaze- Shades of Paradise- Board. Optional- Revlon- Holographic Pearls- Transforming Effects.
Nail art supplies- A thin stripper brush if needed for detail work/ clean up the lines, and stripping tape.
Other- (not shown) small glass dappen dish with acetone in it to clean off nail art brush, tweezers to take stripping tape off of the nails.
Let start this nail design!
Purple Gradient and Chevron Nail Design
Start off with a thin layer of base coat, and let that dry.
For this design you can do the chevron/ gradient on all of your nails or just a few, I decided to do the design on three nails; the thumb, middle and ring finger nails, and keep the index and pinky fingers a solid color.
Once your base coat has dried, polish all of the nails that you are going to do the design on with a gold polish, this is your base color/ gold stripes.
If you are following the way I have done this design then polish your thumb, middle and ring finger nail gold, then polish your index nail with a dark purple (I used OPI Hawaii- Lost my Bikini in Molokini), and then polish your pinky finger nail with a light purple (I used Zoya Sunshine- Delia.)
Purple Gradient and Chevron Nail Design
Once your base colors are pretty much fully dry, we can start the chevron/ gradient design. With the gradient you are suppose to go from lightest to darkest color (or the other way around) but I didn't follow what I just said on the middle and ring finger nail, I did follow what I said on the thumb nail.
Purple Gradient and Chevron Nail Design
For this design take a piece of stripping tape and cut it in to two pieces, place it on the nail one at a time in a triangle shape. Depending on how long your nail is will determine how many triangle shapes you can do, on my thumb I did three triangles of stripping tape, and then on the middle and ring finger nail, I did two.
Once you have your stripping tape placed, open all of your bottles of polish that way you can get to them easily. Staring near the cuticle polish a light purple or dark, depending on if you are following my color pattern or not, then polish a medium purple or light purple, then right away peel of the tape that you put on that area with tweezers.
* Do not let the polish dry on these two steps, doing this helps to make the lines look cleaner.*
Then for the last color, polish near the tip of the nail dark purple or medium purple and then once again with tweezers take off the stripping tape.
Also if need you can clean up your gold lines with a stripping brush dipped into that same polish. I needed to do this for the medium colored polish, China glaze- Boujee Board because of it being a matte it was acting kind of weird and when I pulled up the tape the polish wanted to come with it a little bit, so I had to go over the gold lines again with a stripping brush to make them look straight.
Purple Gradient and Chevron Nail Design
As an optional touch I applied a holographic topcoat to this design, but you can always leave it as is. I actually wish when I first did this design that I would have not applied the holo top coat to the chevron/ gradient part, and just applied it to the nails that had not design on it, but as the week went on and I had this on my nails it didn't look to bad and I started to like it.
Anyways once you have finished your design apply a clear top coat to seal in your design and to help it it last.
Hope all of you enjoyed this design!
See you next time for more nail fun!
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