The One With the Blue Gradient Dry Brush Manicure
9:00:00 AMHello Polished World, and welcome to a post that was in my drafts prior to COVID! The date on this was January 28th, 2020. I seriously feel like that was AGES ago. After going through my drafts I realized I have about 10 or so posts I need to share. They're a mixture of pre-COVID posts and then random nail art I did during the COVID crisis when I wanted to get my mind off of work. COVID be damned, I'm not giving up on my nail art again. Truly it's been something that I've missed and I know it sounds weird, but I feel more like myself when my nails are all fancy.
Today's manicure is a gradient dry brush manicure which I am beyond obsessed with. I've done gradient designs before where I then add a black and white splatter over the top and loved the end result. I clearly remember when I did this manicure I debated on doing the splatter, but I wanted something different. Thus, the idea of the dry brush came to my mind.
Let's take a look!
Colors Used:
- OPI - Gelato On My Mind
- OPI - Can't Find My Czechbook
- OPI - My Pal Joey
- OPI - Alpine Snow
- OPI - Black Onyx
Can we take a minute to appreciate how lovely that blue gradient is. I started off with a base coat of OPI Gelato On My Mind, which is the light baby blue. Perfect two coat polish. Once that was dried, I took a make up sponge and applied the three blues and dabbed it on each of my nails. As many of us nail artists known, the gradient is the most tedious part of any manicure. Multiple dabs to get the color just right, a top coat to ensure that the colors blend properly, and then of course, the cuticle clean up.
After the gradient was just how I wanted it, I started with the dry brush. I first added the swipes of Alpine Snow, then went through with Black Onxy. Added another layer of top coat and called it a day. Overall the whole thing took probably an hour and a half since I'm crazy and have to have all 10 of my nails matching.
What do you think? Like the gradient and dry brush look?
Until next time, <3.
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