I am just about ready to give up on doing gradient manicures. I just don’t understand why I have such a hard time with them! I’ve tried just about a million tips that other nail gurus have offered, but my gradients just keep coming out harsh and choppy–never smooth and beautiful. My nails for the challenge yesterday, which you can see here, are a perfect example of how my gradients always turn out. I love the colors that I used, but that weird and uneven gradient totally killed it. So in order to make up for that, I picked a Fall color and lovely nude to work with: OPI Ticke My France-y and OPI We’ll Always have Paris–both from the Collection de France. I seriously love that whole collection.
Tickle My France-y is perfection. It’s such a gorgeous pinky nude that is opaque and easy to work with and doesn’t need a billion coats: I only needed two. Since I kind of failed on my previous tape manicure, I decided to try it again WITHOUT the gradient.
After I applied the stripping tape, I then painted over my whole nails with OPI We’ll Always Have Paris. I know this is a fairly common manicure but it’s only the second time I use stripping tape this way. If you’ve never tried this, just make sure that you do one nail at a time because otherwise the top layer of polish will dry and you will have a serious mess on your hands–literally!
So, you tell me: did redeem myself from yesterday’s gradient disasticure? Thanks for catching up with my crazy nail adventures–talk to you soon.
I love this manicure!! That Tickle My France-y looks so much pinker with We’ll Always Have Paris over it. I really want to try a tape manicure, but I’m sure it’ll come out crazy.
Thanks for doing this one in fall colors. 😉
I noticed that too…it looks way more pink. Honestly, this is so easy so you shouldn’t be apprehensive about trying it. I always have issues with doing nail art stuff and I think it came out ok.
Cynthia recently posted..OPI Tickle My France-y & We’ll Always Have Paris
Wow! I love that! What kind of tape do you use to do this?
Thank you! 🙂 It’s stripping tape that is for nail art stuff. It’s super thin and has adhesive on the back. You can buy it really cheap online (born pretty, ebay, etc..)
Cynthia recently posted..OPI Tickle My France-y & We’ll Always Have Paris
i liked the other!!
this one is cool too..
do you remember the first manicure you mentioned that i looks like christmas.. now i can’t stop noticing it ahaha..
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LOL! It’s funny how our minds take suggestions and then we can’t stop seeing it. I like this one better since everything came out pretty crisp. While I liked the colors on the other mani, it just seemed so messy because of my sponging.
Cynthia recently posted..OPI Tickle My France-y & We’ll Always Have Paris
Very cool! Filing away for mental reference should I ever purchase striping tape. I like the contrast on this one better, I think. I’m all about bold, haha.
Heck yeah…bold! I wanted to try something cool with my nails today, but it’s so freaking hot that I know that I won’t be able to do anything comfortably since I’m sitting RIGHT IN FRONT of the fan. Besides, when it gets really hot, my polish bubbles really bad. 🙁
Cynthia recently posted..OPI Tickle My France-y & We’ll Always Have Paris
Whoa! I really really like this! I can’t stop staring. Keeping this short so I can stare some more….
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Thanks my dear! 😉 *you are getting sleepy…*
Cynthia recently posted..OPI Tickle My France-y & We’ll Always Have Paris
omg, I love this! I loved it and then I kept scrolling and saw the maroon on it and I think I went “ooooooooo” Out loud.. in my cubicle!!! lol
LOL! I can just imagine that. 🙂 I’ve done that before when people are around and when they come and see that I’m looking at nails, they always look at me weird. haha