Lazy Days of Summer- Summer Ombre

Finally, a new post! My power is on and running!  Today I have the second challenge in the LDoS nail challenge. It's summer ombre nails! This is actually my second mani for this challenge but my pictures somehow got deleted when the power went out. I was actually resizing them when the power went out so that's probably why. Oh well, I like how this turned out better! Now this was kinda hard for me because I tend to not purchase that many multiple colors in one color family. Blue seemed to be the only color family that I had a decent amount of creme polishes in. I really wanted to stay with the same finish for all the polishes. I'm not sure how summery is it thought. I mean blue is the color or water, right :P

Five fingers, five colors. The polishes I picked were Maybelline- Sapphire Siren (thumb), China Glaze- Ride The Waves (pointer), Julep- Jaime (middle), OPI- No Room For The Blues (ring) and Hello Kitty- Blueberry (pinky). Three coats of everything except Ride The Waves, which was four. I know in the pictures there is VNL but it's not there in real life. I think it's a pretty successful ombre, don't you? There's an extra picture including my thumb so you can see the whole effect!

Maybelline- Sapphire Siren

China Glaze- Ride The Waves

Julep- Jaime

 OPI- No Room For The Blues

Hello Kitty- Blueberry

One coat of Poshe

I hope you guys like it! I've been antsy to put a new post up! Don't forget to check out everyone else's summer ombres!

Victoria at Manicurator

Alyson at Beads Nails Food

Amanda at Mandys Polish

Hannah at Polished-Prisms

Sue at Creative Nail Design By Sue

Katee at A Girl and Her Polish

Charlotte at Charlottes-Nails

Jessica at Nearly Natural Nails

Karine at Karinea0a

Jen at The Polished Zombie

Ashley at One Nail To Another

Pryanka at Nail Sparks

Anna at Polished Cousins

Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite

Kayono at Kayonolan

Sharra at Alira23

Amanda at Counting Down To Bliss

Nichole at AOTNF

Stephanie at A Little Polish

Becky at Glam Fiend

Gradient String Mani

GAH, sorry for the lack of posts in the last week! I've been busy with family stuff, but I'm back with a super fun mani for you all today! I've been messing around with gradient nails for the past week, none of which I got to properly photograph. I decided it was time to do a gradient nails post when I had a hankering to try out a string mani as well. I thought to myself, why not combine the two! So I have for you my first gradient string main! I decided to make the base a gradient instead of gradienting (which is probably not a word) the string effect, and I love how it turned out! I'm not much into nail art but both of these techniques are very easy to do. I may do tutorials in the future but for now check out The Nailasaurus tutorial for the gradient effect and Manicurator for the string effect! By the way, my left hand, aka photography hand, turned out WAY better then my right hand. I suppose it will get easier to do my right hand with some practice. I should also mention that my topcoat bubbled, which has never happened before. I have a feeling it was just because of the texture of the strings so if your trying this, I suggest possibly adding two coats to finish it off :)

A few posts back I mentioned that Poshe makes my Zoya's shrink, and I have found a solution! If you use one coat of Zoya Armor topcoat then one coat of Poshe, no shrinkage!

One coat of Julep- Hayden

Two coats of sponging with Julep- Hayden and Zoya- Lara

Strings with Zoya-  Reagan

One coat of Zoya Armor

One coat of Poshe