The One With the Green Gradient for St. Patrick's Day
9:00:00 AMGood Morning and Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!! Hope everyone is decked out in green today!! You'll find me in crazy leggings and plain green nails. Sadly not the nails I'm sharing today because didn't I break one of them and the whole thing was just ruined. Such is life. If you follow me on Instagram, you know that I'm currently in the mood of blaming everything on Daylight Savings, so the nail break clearly is because of that also. Seriously though, I cannot get into the groove of anything since Sunday! I'm so thrown off. I'm actually shocked I'm getting this post up, that's how thrown off I am.
Today's post is by far one of my favorite manicures to date. I really wasn't feeling anything crazy for St. Patrick's Day this year. Usually I do the pot of gold, shamrocks, and rainbows, but I don't know what it is. My nail art self wasn't wanting to do all of that. Then came the next best thing, a green gradient with a top coat of a gold flake. I'm so glad I skipped the crazy nail art and went with this.
Let's take a look!
We will just pretend that I posted the colors I used here. Literally painted this manicure the other day and cannot figure out for the life of me what polishes I used other than the Serendipity in the photo. Which, I don't recall the name of it and I'm too lazy to go get the bottle and check. Since this polish is discontinued, I don't think it's that big of a deal since you all won't be running to buy it and honestly it's a dupe for like ten other dark green polishes on the market.
I'm rambling. Regardless, this manicure was created by painting my nails with a base of a light green polish. That polish was one of my Sally Hansen Miracle Gels. I was convinced that it was going to stain my nails since most light green polishes do that. However, that beauty did not. 99.9% positive that the base was Sally Hansen Wet My Thistle.
When my base was dried, I used three shades of green to create that beautiful gradient. I debated on rotating the gradient and having the dark at some of the cuticles, but my brain wanted to be OCD and keep everything uniform. I'm actually happy I stayed uniform because I think the overall look was better in the end.
That glitter topper is Maria Luisa by Zoya. My favorite gold flake which I will never forget the name of as long as I'm living. I think it was that perfect little pot of gold look to add to it.
What do you think? Perfect St Patrick's Day Manicure???
Everyone have a safe and happy day!
Until next time, <3.
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