Hello lovelies! & happy Monday.
We’ve got two more prompts left for #glamnailschallengeAug, & I’m going to be honest… I wasn’t sure I was going to get this prompt done! Not only was I a bit stumped on inspiration, but I’ve had a busy last week so I haven’t been able to get my nails painted like I usually can. But thanks to some late night Pinterest-ing & a cooperative baby, I pulled out a last minute nail art success!
& I’m so super in love with the end result!
For this manicure, the polishes I used were:
- Base Coat: fraken base coat combination
- Base Coat: Quo by ORLY Bonder
- Top Coat: Essie Speed Setter
- Essence Indian Summer
- Essie Flowerista
- Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Trouble Maker
- Essence Black is Back
- Kiss Products Nail Art Striper in white
- NailStuff.ca Mermaid Tail Nail Art Brush Trio (7mm size)
I started off this design with what I’m going to call a “rustic” gradient — I didn’t go your typical route where you blend all your colours together at once, but instead sponged my layers on top of each other which kind of created the pinky cloud effect. I then brushed my top coat over & over to smear the layers together a bit. This created the perfect background because I really feel like it looks more like what you see when you see a sunset. & it reminds me a lot of this sunset I captured not that long ago (which was also kind of my inspiration for the colour combo I went with.)
I’ve done a few of these sunset with background designs, but this is definitely the most unique. (Usually I do mountains & cacti, or something similar) but with the pinky sky & the buildings it really does feel like a city sunset, maybe even my own city.
What do you think of this design? Can you believe we only have one more prompt left for this challenge… how crazy is that?
Don’t forget to hop over to Instagram & check out #glamnailschallengeaug to see everyone’s amazing city building manicures!
Coffee & Nail Polish 
