Hello
there my lovely readers!
Aaaah
Louboutins...a name I'm sure many are familiar with & whose
iconic shoes are present on most gals wish lists! I'm still yet to be
fortunate enough to call a pair my own but one day...it will be. The
same goes for the beautiful Louboutin nail polish with its stunning
bottle, I confess its mostly for the bottle that I want it...one day
you WILL be mine!
In
the mean time I guess I can still get my wee fix by using the
infamous red & black colours to inspire my nail art which is what
I've done today with these Louboutin inspired gradient nails...
I
wasn't entirely happy with how these came out if I'm honest, I'm
still practicing doing gradients with darker colours which I'm
finding a tad more tricky so do forgive me! This was one of those
manis that looked much better at distance haha! But practice makes
perfect so I'll persevere for sure :)
For
my Louboutin nails I of course required a nice red & black
polish, here I've used W7 Black & Bad Apple Red Delicious.
To
start first apply a coat of red polish as your base to do your
gradient on top of, then wait for it to completely dry.
Then
grab a piece of makeup sponge, I guess you can use any old sponge but
I like using these. I pick up a bag from good old Poundworld.
The
gradient will go from red to black so apply a stripe of each shade
side by side onto your sponge, then dab onto the nail with up/down,
side to side motions to create your faded gradient look.
Do
this a few times, adding more polish to your sponge, to get a nice
opaque finish or until your happy with the effect. To finish I also
dabbed a bit of Ulta3 Outasight which is a black glitter, onto the
tips for an added touch.
Go
over with a nice thick coat of topcoat & you're done! Now
gradients can be messy, I used ZAP!, a liquid latex nail art skin
protector to help with the clean up part of this manicure,which I'll
be reviewing in full for you in my next post so do keep posted for
that!
FYI
the ring bling is Hugo Sophia :) Thanks for reading lovelies!
Lotsa
love to ya!
