rainbow gradient | Let's Talk Nail Art

Yay for America! Finally catching up with the whole Marriage Laws thing 😁 ❤️💛💚💙💜

To celebrate I did a rainbow Ombre and I can’t believe how well it turned out!

Anyways here’s the tutorial for my rainbow gradient/Ombre mani.

(Awkward moment when you realise that you’ve put the camera too close to your nails so everything is out of focus. UGH.)
You need:

• Latex make-up sponge

• Cellotape/Scotch Tape – if you have fibres that are on your sponge use this to get them off

• Liquid Latex Barrier – I used Zap! That I bought from Rainbow Connection

• Tweezers

• Clean up tools – brush and acetone

• White nail polish – I used Barry M “white”

• Clear nail polish – I used Barry M “Matte” Top Coat

• 4 coloured nail polishes – I used Barry M “Blood Orange” (Red), “Sky Blue” (Blue) and “Need for Speed” (Purple) and a Yellow with literally all details rubbed off haha.
Method:

1⃣ Paint your nails with one coat of white polish

2⃣ Let that dry and then paint on a thin clear layer of your top coat, this smooths everything out so you get a nice clean ombre

3⃣ Let the topcoat dry and paint on your liquid latex barrier around your cuticles, I tend to paint a little bit onto my nail so that it’s easier to get off (as you’ll see)…

4⃣ Grab your sponge and paint your polishes onto the sponge, one line per polish, slightly overlapping each time. Make sure you don’t paint too much polish onto the sponge – this creates bubbles.

5⃣ Roll the sponge (polish side down) onto your nail once and repeat for each nail – don’t worry if hardly any polish transfers. It’s your first one.

6⃣ Let this dry before you repeat again otherwise the sponge will take off all layers of existing polish.

7⃣ Repeat until you have the desired level of coverage – make sure you don’t roll in the exact same positions. Move your sponge slightly up then roll, then slightly down then roll so that you get the colours to really blend.

8⃣ Then let all of this dry and then pull off your liquid latex and get rid of any excess by using your clean up tools

9⃣ If you get a bit over zealous with cleanup it’s all good! No need to panic, you’ll be able to touch up with a bit of whatever polish you just wiped off.