So, I chose to do this tutorial, because quite honestly some of us are lazy and don't always want to go buy every item you don't have just in order to make your nails look pretty. That's not to say I don't think it's important to have nice looking nails, trust me...I'm not saying that. But there are other ways of doing an Ombre nail without a make up sponge. And I wasn't about to take a trip to the store for just that.
Things you'll need:
- 4 nail polishes, preferably all the same color hue in different shades as well as a sparkley one(of course top coat)
- Paper towels
- Acetone to clean up the edges
Step 1- Put on your base coat, lightest color. Let it dry.
Step 2- Fold over a piece of paper towel so that you have a corner to work with, put your medium shade of nail polish on the corner (don't let the nail polish soak in all the way or else you won't have much going onto you nail).
Step 3- Start to smudge the color on your nail(this might take some practice). Smudge as much as you see fit.
Step 4- Take a look at your nail, make sure it's faded enough. Or faded to your liking.
Step 5- Apply your darkest shade to another corner of the paper towel.
Step 6- Smudge the nail polish in starting from the edge of the nail and fading down(you can always go back with the medium shade to help create a good fading effect if you need to).
Step 7- Take a look, make sure the fade is how you want it.
Step 8- Apply a sparkley nail polish just on the faded part of the nail.
Step 9- Top coat and dry!
And you're done!!
