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Put the Lime In The Coconut In the Ombré
As the days get longer and the sun shines a little brighter, I had to create a perfect sparkly neon green ombré to welcome SUMMER with open arms! Can you believe it? Wasn’t it December like a week ago?
Gel Ombré can be pretty intimidating and clients LOVE them. I’ve spent hundreds of dollars trying to find a hack (most notably an airbrush and airbrush gel that was a HOT mess) to do them quickly. But there really is something to be said for the old adage that practice matters. If you don’t get this right away, keep practicing and you’ll get it in time. Don’t let a fear of failure keep you from trying.
Whether we are doing our own nails or a clients' nails, our biggest roadblock will always be our own perfectionism. This is one of those looks where you have to not only trust your skill and product knowledge, but you also have to trust the process. We're doing ultra thin layers with highly pigmented gels, it's gonna work out. Promise. If anything goes awry, just add extra glitter.
Just remember two things:
Use purposeful placement and lay the bulk of the color down conservatively and where you want the most intensity. For an ombre like this, the intensity is going to be closer to the tip of the nail, so you'll notice whenever I go into the green, I work from tip upward.
It's easier to ADD color than to remove it. Work with sheer thin layers and build up to the coverage that you want. It's easier to fix any mistakes that way.
Notes on the products I used:
I discovered the Medusa gel line through a fellow manicurist and I'm SO impressed with the color pay-off and the product consistency- it's the PERF texture for this kind of art. If you're looking to do a black or white ombre (baby boomer), I recommend checking out Aeropuffing Gel Paste- it's the best I've found for those particularly challenging colors.
Products used:
Aprés Soft-Gel Full Cover Tip in Short Round Natural
Daily Charme Dreamy Fairy Dust
Concelect/Britney Tokyo Square Head Brush
Latex-Free Makeup Wedge
Palette Knife
Palette (this is a quartz coaster I got from Saje)
Make-up Brush, cleaned and free of debris
BioSeaweed Gel No-Wipe Topcoat