How To Ombre Glitter Nails

Kathleen Kamphausen

Nail art tin can sometimes exist a huge hurting in the ass to execute, just this glitter ombré blueprint is annihilation just difficult. Nail artist Holly Falcone shows you how to flawlessly nail the look below in merely a few like shooting fish in a barrel steps.

Kathleen Kamphausen

i. Prep and paint.After yous've filed your nails into a shape that mimics your cuticles (the most flattering of nail shapes), pushed dorsum your cuticles — remember, Practise NOT CUT THEM! — and applied a basecoat, pigment all your nails with two coats of a sheer peony-pinkish shade. Hand model Nzingha used Essie Blast Polish in Spaghetti Strap.

2. Add glitter. Cull a glitter that's primarily pink and brainstorm to paint your nail. But first, become rid of any excess smoothen that's on the brush by dragging it over the neck of the bottle, and so you're left with only a petty bit of glitter. Utilise information technology to your nail three-fourths of the way downwardly to the tip of your smash. This creates the beginning of your ombré look. Nzingha used Smith and Cult Vegas Mail Apocalyptic.

three. Using the same polish, swipe the glitter from the halfway point of your smash to the tip, building the gradation.

iv. Concentrate on the edge. Lastly, pat the tip of the nail only with the aforementioned glitter smoothen. This will get in the darkest point to finish off the ombré outcome.

Finally, apply a quick-dry topcoat over it, like Seche Vite Dry Fast Summit Coat, and then show off that sparkle by tweeting your boom look @Cosmopolitan with the hashtag #CosmoNailArt.

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