How to: Ombre Nails

One of the latest craze this year is anything and everything OMBRE ,which means "shaded or graduated in tone", can be seen anything from hair, to makeup, to nails. When done right, it looks phenomenal. It should start from dark to light. The graduation of color should be noticed obviously, and not liked it just skipped from one color to another. One trick to do it, is to stick with one shade's family color. 

Here is one tutorial on how to do OMBRE NAILS.

Today I decided to do PINK.

What I used:

Sephora by OPI in "It's all about me"

OPI in "Pink Friday" (From Nicki Minaj's line)

Essie luxeffects in "A Cut Above"

Any base coat and top coat

Steps: 

1) Apply base coat to nails. 

2) Next, apply OPI's "Pink Friday" on the top 3/4 of your nails, like this:

Don't worry if it's not perfect. It should actually supposed to look like that, like  it graduated from your natural nail color, to pastel pink.  No need for  second coat, just make sure they're all evenly coated.

3) Using OPI's "It's all about me", apply it in the same motion following your nail growth. Cover 1/4 of you top nail, and make sure you apply light to heavy, meaning concentrate more on the very tip itself. 

4)Then when it's almost dry and not too tacky, apply Essie's "A Cut Above". Go beyond past the first color we applied, leaving only 1/4 of our natural nail uncovered. Make sure the glitter-part of the nail polish covers it all.

5) Before applying the top coat, which is the final step, make sure that the glittered nail polish has adhered to the nail already, otherwise when you apply the top coat, it will drag the glitters everywhere. Make sure its dry or almost dry.

And there you go! End results:

Now you can use any color wish, as long as the 2 shades of color you're going to choose are close and/or 1-2 shades lighter/darker. 

If you wish to see a video on how to do this, leave a comment below! Any comments, suggestions and tip are welcome! Make sure you check back for more tips, tricks, reviews or more!

Love, 

pinai kikay