#52weeknailchallenge: ombre

I can't believe it's week 33 already. I know we tend to complain when time drags and when it goes too quickly, but sheez where has the time gone!!

If you remember some weeks back to a Friday Triad where I didn't mention too much about my base for the nail art, this is the prompt I was waiting for.

I mentioned in a previous post that I wasn't too sure about what colours to use and Joyce came to my rescue in two ways. Firstly by giving me the colour scheme and secondly by teaching me what an ombre is, because I thought ombre and gradient, same thing...

So let me teach you too... Gradient is blending colours on one nail. An ombre is, for example, going from a dark colour to a light colour across all your nails. I hope that makes sense. Anyway...

From my index (remember my thumb betrayed me) to my pinky:

• Tip Top sea me now
• I love Hean 408
• Essence island hopping
• Tip Top jade in the shade
  

And that's that. Easy peasy.

What do you think? After I finished I felt that I should have swopped island hopping and jade in the shade... But I didn't feel like doing it again. And here's a quick look at the art I added.

Thanks for reading!!

Friday Triad: Inspired by Cat's Claws

It's that time again!! The last Friday of the month where Michelle, Joyce and I chose a manicure for inspiration and see what each of us comes up with. Friday Triad.

Today's inspiration comes from this mani done by Cat's Claws. So I'm not gonna tell you too much about the base for this mani... All I can tell you, it's supposed to be an ombre.

Oh and don't worry about my thumb over there.... She's banned from showing her face as she decided to tear and now she is super short. The images on my index, ring finger and pinky is from BP-58 and stamped with Nubar silver mist.

On my middle finger I stamped the bird image from BP-75 with silver mist, then I stamped the cage over it from BP-L019 with a gold stamping polish from BPS. I should have stamped the image a little lower so I could get more of the cage on my nail, hence the chain going up my finger...

So what do you think? I chose this mani as a bit of a palette cleanser. A simple mani compared to the more complicated ones we have had. I have also cheated a little with the base here. I was working on my ombre for the #52weekchallenge and I thought it would make a good base for this. So keep an eye out for the ombre prompt to learn about the colours I used.... Or you could just guess them.

Dont' forget to pop over to Michelle and Joyce and give them some love.

Thanks for reading!!