Thursday, July 19, 2012

Summer Challenge Day 10: Gradient

Summer Challenge Day 10: Gradient

I made gradients for my rainbow nails the day before yesterday, so I didn’t just want to make an “ordinary” gradient today. I wanted to make a glitter gradient!!

I’ve had Catrice’s “Heavy Metalilac” in my stash for a couple of weeks now, and I have been looking so much forward to trying it on. Tünde sent it to me in a swap, and I was very excited to get it, since I’ve been reading only good things about this polish.

I love the formula of Catrice polishes, and Heavy Metalilac is no exception. It almost applies itself! :D It was opaque after just one coat, but I applied a second one to make sure it looked its best.

And I was so lucky that then the sun peeked out from behind a cloud – so here’s a sunshine pic of two coats, and no top coat yet:


And here’s an indoor shot:


This could easily become my favourite lilac polish!! :)


Then I sponged some glitter on from New York Summer Glitter. It’s called “Fuchsia glitter”, which is exactly what it is. I sponged from the top instead of sponging the tips because I wanted it to be a bit different.

The sun was still out, so here’s a sunny shot:


The sun doesn’t actually make the glitter look better, which is weird.
Here’s an indoor shot. The glitter looks much better on that pic IMO.


It’s all sealed up under a layer of Poshé top coat.


You should also check out these other Danish girls’ blogs to see what they came up with for gradient nails:


Stay tuned the day after tomorrow - same bat time, same bat channel - for (even more) polka dot nails!

28 comments:

  1. That purple is awesome! I love that you put the glitter at the base of your nail. beautiful! :)

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    1. Thank you so much. I love that purple, it's one of my fav purples :)

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  2. Gorgeous color combination, great gradient!

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  3. Looking good! I wish that we could have Catrice in Sweden. They are awesome.

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    1. I also wish they would expand a little bit, so I didn't have to go to Germany to get them :)

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  4. That Catrice looks so good on you! I am happy you like it! And with the glitter is super! Great job again :)

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    1. That was a perfect choice for me, Tünde. I'm very grateful to have this polish :)

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  5. Ihhh det ser fint ud, tror jeg vil prøve gradient med glimmer næste gang :-)

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    1. Tak! :) Jeg elsker jo glimmer, så det lå lige til højrebenet :)

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  6. Glitter gradients are gorgeous! I love the two colors together that you used for this one!! ^.^

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    1. I really like them too! And thank you so much! :)

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  7. Ihh fine negle! :D havde slet ikke tænkt på at løse problemet med glimmer! :P (glimmer løser ALLE problemer!)

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    1. Dér sagde du noget meget essentielt! Glimmer skal der til!! :)

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  8. I love your glitter gradient mani! I just tried my first one recently and I just love how it look :)

    I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger award :) Check it out here...
    http://mybeautyscraps.blogspot.com/2012/07/versatile-blogger-award.html

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    1. Oh thank you so much, that's so sweet of you!!! :)

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  9. Nmmenam!!! Lilla gradient. Min absolut yndlings mani!!! Den er rigtig flot :-)

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    1. Tak skal du ha'! Jeg blev også selv helt tilfreds med den :)

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  10. cute! i love heavy metalilac, definitely my favorite purple polish!

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    1. It's one of mine too, I think it's seriously pretty! :)

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  11. Very cool way to do the gradient. you rebel you!

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