Freehand Frenchie

One simple thing I've never been good at is French manicures. I just cannot get the tips right and it drives me crazy. So when I bought Konad's M19 plate it was perfect for me. However I decided to give a freehand French manicure a go and I didn't do too bad this time!

I applied Rimmel base, then used Allura white for the tips, Allura French pink over my whole nail and then topped it off with Allura top coat. The tips are still a bit wobbly and nowhere near perfect but they were acceptable!

The only problem I had with the Allura polishes is that they went kind of matte and they felt strange to the touch. Kind of soft, if that makes sense?

Anyway, thanks for reading!

Sexy Gradient

These gradients are becoming a bit of a habit!

This time I decided to do the gradient as an accent nail instead of my whole hand.

I started off with Rimmel base on all my nails. I then applied one coat of Tiger's Shade 57 which is a brilliant black creme (and its a one coater, perfection!) to all my nails bar my accent ones. I applied three coats of Allura's white polish to my accent nails.

To create the gradient I painted the white, OPI's Pedal Faster Suzi! (a pale pink full of silver micro glitter) and OPI's Kiss Me On My Tulips (a hot pink creme) onto a sponge in that order and applied it to my accent nails. I then added a coat of Sexy (a beautiful glitter that changes from gold to green depending on the lighting) from the B and M set I bought a while back. I finished off with 2true top coat.

This gradient worked even better than the previous ones I thought, possibly because I used three colours which gave it a more gradual change. Although it might just be practice that's helping me to improve.

Thanks for reading!