Glitter Pastel Gradient Nail Tutorial

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art, Beauty, blue, dream, dreamy, duochrome, ethereal, girly, glitter, glittery, gradient, how to, iridescent, light, mint, nail, nail art, nail polish, pastel, pastels, pink, polish, pretty, purple, rainbow, rhinestone, sponge, spring, springtime, star, tutorial, unicorn

Supposedly we’ll be getting an early spring this year, and what embodies spring more than pastel colors?

This 4 way color gradient gives off an almost duochrome-like effect. I added a thin layer of white polish on top to diffuse the colors. This also makes the nail look like it is lit from within! If you don’t have any pastel polish, try using regular colors and then whitewash it with your sheer white polish. My turquoise polish was the lightest one I had on hand, but the white overlay plays it down a bit.

If the glitter & rhinestones are a bit too much for you, feel free to just do the gradient :}

★ MATERIALS: ★

Sinful Snow Me white
Essie French Affair
Revlon Minted
Revlon Cloud
Sally Hansen HD in Spectrum
OPI Funny Bunny
Hard Candy Break Up
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Disco Ball
Makeup Sponge
CND Stickey Base Coat
Seche Vite Topcoat
Zoya Remove
Synthetic Brush

The rhinestones were from various beauty stores, but try these links. Or try Daiso, Ebay, Amazon, your local dollar stores or beauty supply stores.

Stars:
http://bit.ly/YfKVXd

Round:
http://bit.ly/WVXYNd

♥ E&I

 

NOTD: OPI Funny Bunny and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Set the Stage

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glitter, Manicure, nail polish, nails, NOTD, opi, polish, sally hansen, white

What I used:

• 1 coat of CND Sticky Base
• 3 coats OPI Funny Bunny
• 1 coat of Sally Hansen Xtremem Wear Set the Stage (applied with a dotting tool, one glitter piece at a time)
• 1 coat of Seche Vite topcoat

Funny Bunny is a semi-sheer jelly white that I absolutely love.  The finish is a bit softer than a full opaque white so the effect is a little more wearable.  Funny Bunny is very pretty on its own but I wanted to spice it up a bit with some sparkle.  Yay!  At first I tried using Konad plate m79 with the Konad Gold metallic special polish on the accent finger.. but the gold didn’t show up at all.  What a waste.  So I covered it up with glitter.  Instead of layering the glitter polish straight from the bottle, I used a dotting tool to apply one glitter piece at a time… thankfully I only did one nail or it may have taken the entire day.  I think next time I’ll try this with a chunkier glitter to save time.

♥ E&I

NOTD: Sally Hansen Ring my Shell and Spoiled Jewelry Heist

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Beauty, glitter, Manicure, nails, NOTD, polish, sally hansen, spoliled

What I used:

• 1 coat of CND Sticky Base
• 2 coats Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Ring My Shell
• 3 coats of Spoiled Jewelry Heist on the ring finger
• 1 coat of Seche Vite topcoat

Ring My Shell is very difficult to photograph!  In real life the metallic sheen is more green in tone.. I think this photo by Kitty Pretty Fingers captures it better.

Jewelry Heist by Spoiled (which is part of Wet n Wild) was an impulse buy at CVS for $1.99 I believe.  I like how the colors are a muted pink and gold hex glitter with specks of smaller iridescent glitter and silver glitter.  I love glitter polishes and its nice to find an inexpensive one that has muted colors.

♥ E&I

NOTD: Revlon Starry Pink

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glitter, nail polish, nails, NOTD, revlon

1 coat of CND Sticky Basecoat
1 coat of Essie French Affair
1 coat of Revlon Starry Pink
1 coat of Seche Vite Topcoat

Revlon’s Starry Pink is a sheer, milky pink with chunky & small silver glitters. You definitely need a base color with this because its so sheer.. and since I used Essie French Affair with it, it looks quite pinky-purple here. Thank you to Steph from DSK Jewelry for introducing it to me.

For a photo of Starry Pink by itself, go here.

♥ E&I