Lazy Days of Summer Challenge #2- Summer Ombre

Oh man do I both love and despise having to do an ombre. First, I love it because it's easy and it's fun and looks super cute when you're done. Second, I dislike them because I need to seriously dig through my polish stash and find enough polishes with which to accomplish a halfway decent ombre. In my last challenge, I did a blue one, seen HERE. I was pretty sure blue was the only color I had enough of in my collection to do this type of manicure and was relieved when that challenge was over.
Enter in the Lazy Days of Summer Challenge....Summer Ombre? Oh poo! "How will I ever do this?" I thought to myself. "I don't have enough of a variety in my polishes to do another one!"

Well, I was wrong. I was very wrong. I do have enough! I was able to pull off a bright neon pinkishness one!

So, I like it. I think I should have rearranged the polish order a bit, but oh well! This is just proof that I really need to swatch my bottles!
Thumb- China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy
Index- Color Club Poptastic
Middle- Color Club Warhol
Ring- China Glaze Strawberry Fields
Pinkie- Essence Ultimate Pink

Be sure to check everyone else's out too!

Victoria Vertel

http://www.manicurator.com/

https://www.facebook.com/Manicurator

Alyson Epstein

http://beadsnailsfood.blogspot.com/

http://www.facebook.com/BeadsNailsFood

Amanda Murphy

http://mandyspolish.blogspot.com/

Hannah Fabiny

http://polished-prisms.blogspot.com

http://www.facebook.com/PolishedPrisms

Sue O'Connor

http://creativenaildesignbysue.blogspot.com 

Katee Baum

http://www.agirlandherpolish.com

http://www.facebook.com/AGirlandHerPolish

Charlotte-Louise Bennett

http://charlottes-nails.blogspot.co.uk/

Jessica Francis

http://nearlynaturalnails.blogspot.com

https://www.facebook.com/NearlyNaturalNails

Karine Assemien

http://karinea0a.blogspot.com 

Jen Guin

http://thepolishedzombie.blogspot.com

Jessica Brown

http://jessicasnailtales.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/JessicasNailTales

Ashley Rowlands-Vanderzande

http://onenailtoanother.blogspot.ca

Pryanka Arora

http://nailsparks.blogspot.com/

Anna Freedman, Erin Obriecht, Robin Storesund

http://www.polishedcousins.com

http://www.facebook.com/PolishedCousins

Maribeth Robienczak

http://obsessivecosmetichoardersunite.blogspot.com/

Kayono Lan (aka Johanna)

http://kayonolan.blogspot.de/

Sharra Farivar

http://alira23.blogspot.ca/search/label/Polished%20Prisms%20The%20Lazy%20Days%20of%20Summe\

Nichole Mowery

http://aotnf.blogspot.com

Stephanie Oblas

http://alittlepolish.blogspot.com

Thanks for reading!
-Amanda

ASBMF Challenge #6- Ombre

On to the sixth challenge! I can't believe I'm moving along so quickly now!
So an ombre design means staying with one color and simply doing a gradient with it. It can be done one of two ways. You can do a gradient on each nail with different sponging techniques, or you can do what I did. I chose to go from light to dark on one hand. Take a look:

I chose the color blue with which to do my ombre. I just love blue. I really thought I had more blue options to choose from, but what you see are what worked best together. My pointer and middle finger look like the same color in this picture, but in real life, they look nothing alike. I had to use my flash and it skewed some of the colors, but I think you get the idea. Also, fun fact of the day, the color on my index finger (Zoya Breezi) is my new favorite color. I had gotten it back in December when Zoya was doing all of their amazing flash promotions and never used it! It's amazing. If you don't have it and you love blues/teals- get it!

Here is another shot of the ombre:

Lastly, here is what I used to accomplish this fun look:

(From left to right- Orly Bonder (as base), Seche Vite (topcoat), NYX Girls Blue Ink (it's a jelly!), Zoya Breezi, Zoya Yummy, Orly Snowcone, and Nubar Blue Hydrangea


Hope you enjoyed,
Thanks for reading!