Day 8: Metallic

Hello! I revamped the blog for spring time and I hope to be a posting queen tonight. I need some time to myself, and I've decided to devote it to the blog.

This is Day 8: Metallic. I did this mani Valentine's Day. I also added a little "how to" on how I did my gradient to make this mani legitimately metallic.

Here we go!

These first two pictures are of OPI's Excuse Moi! 

Pictured above are the tools I used for the gradient.

As you can see, I used polish, cardboard, tweezers, and a makeup sponge (the wedge-shaped kind).

 Unfortunately, I got a little carried away, and forgot to take pictures. So I will explain my steps:

1.  Put drops of polish on the cardboard. I've found cardboard isn't that absorbent.

2.  Grab your tweezers and pick up the sponge.

3.  Dip the sponge into the polish.

4.  Sponge your nails. Heavily sponge the areas you want thickly covered. Lightly sponge the areas you want to be sparsely covered.

The final product after the gradient sponging! 

Then, I went a little Konad crazy. I added a netting type pattern and hearts. The netting is courtesy of YouMix Cosmetics XL Stamping Plate A and MASH 19. I stamped using the Konad Black and Konad White polish.

BASE COAT

OPI Nail Envy

COLORS

OPI Excuse Moi!

Konad Black

Konad White

TOP COAT

Seche Vite (Excuse Moi! top coat)

Sally Hansen Insta-Dry (gradient and stamping top coat)

STAMPING PLATES

YouMix Cosmetics XL Stamping Plate "A"

MASH 19

Well, there we have it! Hope y'all enjoyed it! :)