Nail Art August Day 8: Ombré

As always, I try and do something a little different than the general population when it comes to these nail art challenges, so today I did a polka dot ombré. There's a lot of debate when it comes to the difference between a gradient and ombre but to me a gradient is when two colours fade together on one nail and an ombré is when the colour goes from light to dark (or vice versa) and each nail is one solid colour. 

As soon as I saw ombré, I knew this is what I wanted to do. I love silver and purple together! 

Orly - Dazzle, Pure Ice - Jailbait, Color Club - Lavendarling,
Essie - Playdate, Essie - Under Where?, Revlon - Lily

I think these colours go really well together for the ombré. If you don't have a lot of polishes it's sometimes hard to get a perfect ombré but luckily most of my purples are similar so this worked out nicely! I don't think I'd be able to do an ombré with any other colour. Blue maybe, but it would be a little rougher than the purple. 

This mani also gave me a chance to practice my polka dots. I don't do them often because I never used to like them - I'm starting to now though! I was kinda shaky the day I did this mani and I know I could have done a better job, but looking at this mani as a whole I'm really pleased with how it turned out. This was also my first time using my new silver, Orly - Dazzle. It's a foil whereas my other silver (NOPI - Positive Energy) is a metallic. 

XO Natasha 

Mint Ombre

I've always wanted to do an ombre, but I never got around to it because I always wanna try new designs and this is so simple. A lot of people interchange the words gradient and ombre, it's really up to you what you call this but this is what I mean when I say ombre - each nail is a solid colour and on your hand the colours fade from light to dark or dark to light. 

I don't have a full spectrum of shades in one particular colour except mint. The shades are all over the place and it's hard to match tones. I'm really pleased with how this turned out! If I could change one thing it would be the colour of my pointer fingers, I think it didn't transition as nicely as it could have, so I'll have to stay on the hunt for a polish that colour! 

The polishes I used from light to dark were: China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint, Zoya - Neely, Revlon - Minted, Essie - Turquoise & Caicos, China Glaze - Aquadelic. Minted looks very green in the pictures of the bottle but IRL it's not. 

All polishes only required two coats for full opacity, except Turquoise & Caicos which was three coats. 

I really liked this at first but after a couple days I was starting to hate it. Well, not hate, that's a strong word. I just began to dislike it, a lot. I wanted something new, I was bored. 

What do you do to your ombre mani to jazz it up a bit? Or do you just leave it plain? 

XO Natasha