Resolution 2013 Nails

 

 

Its New Years Eve!! I hope you all have fun plans for tonight. I'll be going to Resolution which is pretty much a giant New Years Eve party down in Seattle with a killer EDM lineup and of course lots of dancing. I knew that I wanted to do a silver and white outfit with touches of teal, so i decided to redo my favorite manicure from the summer. 

Instead of doing the typical gradient manicure by spongeing, I prefer diluting out some of my darker color with clear nail polish, and then layering it on with more opaque versions until I am just painting the darkest color on the tips by itself.

• So in this case I painted my nails their base color - LA Girl Sterling Silver (2 coats) and then let that dry.
• I then took a large scoop of Seche Vite and plopped it on a piece of paper, where I mixed in a little bit of my blueish teal which is China Glaze Blue Iguana, to get a very transparent blue color. I painted that on about 3/4 of my nail starting from the bottle.
• After that I took another scoop os Seche Vite, this time with a little more Blue Iguana, so that it was a little less transparent than the blue in my previous mixture, and painted that up my nail, but not as far as the previous step.
• After that I continued to mix Seche Vite and Blue Iguana in more and more opaque batches, to the point where I could paint pure Blue Iguana on the tips, to achieve a smooth gradient.
• On the tips I added some Maybelline Sea-Quins for some extra sparkle and fun.
• Over the top of that I painted two coats of Revlon Galaxy (multi sized silver glitter) to pull the whole look together.
• And then of course to seal everything in a coat of Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat.

Hope that all made sense! Look forward to 2012 favorites posts in the near future.