Gradient Nails

Gradient Nails are very popular right now and also very easy to do. I'm always being asked how to do them so this is how. You will need at least 2 different colours of nail polish, nude or white nail polish and a make up sponge. First you should buff and shape your nails and then apply a base coat.

Step one: Paint your nails nude or white. Just like painting your walls, you need to prime your nails for this particular nail art. The nail polish just doesn't really show up that well on a plain nail when you press it on, you would have to do a million coats. I chose white because I don't own any nude nail polish but either one will work perfectly fine. It just needs one coat and doesn't need to be perfect because you are going over it with colour anyways. Let this completely dry before you move on to step two.

Step two: choose 2 or more colours of nail polish. I decided to go with 2 colours because my nails are rather short so it makes it easier.

Step three: Cut the make up sponge to the size of your nail. This makes it easier because you can tell exactly where the colour will go on your nail and you can decide on how much of each colour you want on your nail.

step four: Apply a generous amount of polish to the make up sponge. It is good to overlap the colours in the middle to give a blended effect. You do not have to make it half and half either you can put as much as whatever colour you want. A lot of people make it mostly one colour and then put a second colour on the tops but I personally prefer half and half. Once you have done this you will want to take the make up sponge and press it on like a stamp and then roll it over your nails. If the polish is thin you may need to let it dry a little bit and and then do a second coat.

Once you are done all of these steps it will probably look very messy and you probably have polish on your skin but don't worry because that is very hard to avoid. 

There is a very simple solution to this problem. Take either your orangewood stick or the back of your cuticle pusher and peel a bit of a cotton swab apart and then wrap it around the cuticle pusher/orangewood stick and then dunk it in nail polish remover. Simply go around your nails with the nail polish remover soaked cottonball and it will take all of the polish off. Putting it on the stick makes it a lot easier to get into small places.

Finally you will be done and you can finish it off with a top coat to for extra shine and to make it last longer. The top coat also does wonders for blending and bringing the colours together.

Enjoy!