Not So Gradient, Yellow and Orange Gradient Nail Design

Hello everyone! As you can see from the title, I once again tried to create a gradient nail design, but I didn't really have to much luck. Although this design might not have turned out the way I had hoped, I still wanted to show all of you this design anyways, to show that I am not perfect at doing nail art and that sometimes our nails designs don't always turn out the way we like, but they still some what look good. 

Yellow and Orange Gradient? 

Here are the polishes and one item you will need for this nail design:

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Nail polishes- Sally Hansen- Triple Shine- Lemon Shark, Sally Hansen- xterme wear- Sun kissed, and Revlon- Holographic Pearls- Transforming Effects.

Nail art tool/ other- makeup sponge.

 

 Yellow and Orange Gradient? 

For this design I have created a few gradients before, some have turned out better then others. This one still looks nice but this is not exactly what I was going for.

With a gradient the colors are suppose to fade into each other like the orange is darker at the tip of the nail, then get lighter going up the nail, to where it would then fade to yellow. As you can see my nails don't really look like what I just explained. 

For a gradient nail design you first polish your nails (for this design) yellow and then you would normally take a makeup sponge, polish the bottom part of the sponge orange and the top yellow making sure to over lap the colors, then you would dab the sponge on the nails and blend the colors together.   

 

 

 Yellow and Orange Gradient?

For me when I have tried this I have trouble with it and it seems like it doesn't want to blend. So I will do one color at a time, in this case I still had to trouble. Their has been a few times where I have tried doing a gradient and this method has worked out better. 

Like anything I still need to practice with this type of design.

 

 

 Yellow and Orange Gradient?

Here are the link to the other gradient that I have created: 

(The ones at the top of the list I fell like turned out better.)

sea you by ocean gradient ombre-nail     

lava meets water gradient nail design

happy belated new years purple gold

day of love valentines day nail design

its freezing outside blue glitter

paradise found tropical design

Well I hope all of you enjoyed this post, even though their was not much to it, I just thought this design was still worth showing. 

See you next time for more nail fun!  

Spring in bloom- flower nail design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a nice spring time, I know where I live it has been a very rainy one. Anyways today we will be creating a blue spring time flower design. 

 

Blue flower nail design

The nail polishes and tools we will be using for this flower nail design:  

 

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Nail polishes- Finger paints- Tiffany imposter and OPI- Hello Kitty- My Pal Joey.

Acrylic paint- white, blue, green and yellow.

Nail art brushes- a thin detail and linear brush, and a striping brush.

A cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes.

 

 Blue flower nail design

As always start off with clean nails that are free of old polish, then apply a thin layer of base coat.

Let that dry.

Once your base coat has dried polish your thumb, middle and ring finger nail with a medium colored blue (I used OPI- My Pal Joey), then polish your index and pinky with a light blue polish (I used Finger paints- Tiffany imposter.)

Let that dry.

 

 Blue flower nail design

Then once your base colored polishes have dried on to the flower nail art, which will be done on the thumb, middle and ring finger nail.  

*First we will need to mix some paint colors to make the different shades of blue. We will need to make two shades of blue (medium and light blue) and a lighter green. For the blues first take a darker blue and some white paint and mix those together to make a medium blue. For a lighter blue add more white then blue. Then for the light green ad some yellow to a dark green.

Staring with the middle and ring finger nails and then the thumb nail, we will first make a bigger flower that is more off to the side of the nail. Take a thin liner brush with white paint on it and make your first petal starting near the tip of the nail, and then two petals from the sides, two more under that, and then one last petal under that.

 Blue flower nail design

For the other two flowers repeat the same steps, just change the colors of the flowers and of course make them smaller. These flowers should go under the lager flower. Also some of your flowers can have a few less petal or the same as the large flower. 

Once you have your flowers, we need to add the leaves and green branches. Take a thin stripper brush with light green paint on it and make some random long lines from the flowers and then add some leaves as well, you can also change the green to a darker green as well for the leaves and branches.   

 

Blue flower nail design

For our final step, which I feel like you can see the best on the thumb nail is to add some small lines in the center of the flower and some yellow dots in the center of the flower. Take a thin stripper brush with the opposite color that you used, like in the photo above the large flower is a light blue, so for the lines use a medium blue. Starting from the center make lines that go half way up the petals. 

Then for the yellow dots just take your detail brush with yellow paint on it and make very small dots in the center of your flowers.

 Blue flower nail design

Once your flowers are spring time ready, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this blue flower nail design, and have a great spring time. 

See you next time for more nail fun!