Hello and Happy Monday
In todays post I’m going to show you how I did these reverse spring gradient nails. If you’d like to know how I did them, please keep on reading. Are you ready for spring yet? I honestly can’t wait for the warmer days with lots of sunshine.
This is two coats of ‘malibu peach’ by Sally Hansen. A very gorgeous peachy shade that I love to wear every year during the spring and summer time. But any peachy colour would do to get the same result.
First of all, apply some sort of peel off liquid around your cuticle area because this is about to get messy. Here I used some simple elmer glue to protect my skin from the gradient. I have always used the ‘big peel off base coat’ from Sally Hansen but I have recently emptied it and have not yet had a chance to repurchase it.
With a make up sponge apply the polishes onto your nails. The blue polish is ‘sugar fix’ by Sally Hansen, I thought that these two colours would work perfectly together. As soon as the polishes are completely dry, go over your nails with a top coat. This will make the gradient smoother and more even.
Apply three strips of tape onto your nails, try to make them as even as possible. Here I used the regular chevron tape from Whats Up Nails, I cut them in half because I couldn’t find my straight tapes anywhere 🙂 Follow this link to get to the chevron tape.
With the same make up sponge as before but the other side, apply some more polish onto your nails. In this step, it’s important that you make sure you flip the colours around. Before we had peach on top and blue at the bottom. Make sure that in this step you have blue on top and peach at the bottom. This will create the reverse gradient we are looking for.
Remove the stripes and glue as soon as you are done with the design. Take a small brush and some polish remover to clean up around the cuticle area. Depending on how good your glue application was, this step might not even be necessary.
Finally, as with every nail design, add a top coat in the end to make the design last longer. With gradients I find it extra important to do this because adding a top coat makes the gradient so much smoother and prettier, just trust me on this one!
Thank you so much for reading my reverse spring gradient nails post and I hope you truly enjoyed it. If this makes you feel like spring or you decide to recreate it, please feel free to let me know in the comments below. Be sure to check back soon for more related spring nail tutorials seeing how spring is hopefully here to stay.
Have a wonderful week with lots of sunshine, happiness and warm temperatures!
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