Sunday 31 March 2013

Neon gradient + tribal nails (and an announcement!)

Happy Easter everyone! I'm going to hopefully be posting twice today because I'm going to quickly try and do a 'Then and Now' post for tonight because I didn't have time to do one last night. But I just wanted to show you these neon gradients I did, and then decided to add a tribal design to. I shall have a tutorial coming up for this soon if you're interested? These were meant to be my 'easter' nails for this year but I fancied something a little different to the usual pastel combinations.

I actually quite liked the design with just a neon gradient but as always I knew I wanted to add more to it, oops. The base for this design was MASH - White, which is meant to be for stamping but as it's so opaque it works great as a base too. The neon colours were Models Own - Toxic Apple, Orange Sorbet and Pink Sorbet, all of which as you can see are really bright and great neons, I would definitely recommend getting them if you haven't already got them. As neons tend to be quite translucent they're great for gradients. 


(The number 2 is there as it's part of the tutorial)


What do you think? Let me know in the comments!

Also, today is my blogiversary! This little blog is one year old today, I had started a Tumblr 8 months previously so it's not a year since the start of my 'nail art journey' but it is via blogger! I shall be having a little giveaway soon to celebrate so stay tuned! 

Alice

EDIT: the tutorial can be found here

15 comments:

  1. How striking! I love your freehand work. I would never attempt such stuff (I am a perfect n00b at nail art) but admire anyone that can freehand so neatly...

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  2. I like them both with and without the tribal print. You're very creative!!

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  3. these colours are awesome and your freehand work is so good!

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  4. These are so good! I love the neon pink gradient and the tribal designs are so nice! :)

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  5. Love the neon gradients <3 I think these are awesome tribal Easter egg nails, my favorite I have seen so far.

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  6. This looks so fun Alice, a great design!

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  7. totally love this, and definitely copying this at some point ! xx

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  8. Love this! Your work is as always, stunning! ^^

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  9. Oh I saw something similar to this about a year ago on a blog called Cooking Chinchilla - it was the gradient effect that got me into nail art and blogging in the first place! Love the tribal pattern, wish I could freehand like you :)

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  10. Tutorial on the neon gradient please!

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  11. how did u do the spray paint look

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