Rainbow Stripes (boyfriend approved!)

When I showed these nails to my boyfriend he said they were his favorite design so far. So that's cool :)

I don't know if you know this... But I love rainbows. Like, a lot. 

When I was in kindergarten I wanted to change my name to Rainbow, because I thought they were so awesome. So now you have fodder to embarrass me with. But I refuse to be embarrassed! Rainbows are RAD! 

Here are the polishes I used for the gradient: 

Zoya Ali and Robyn, and ORLY Glowstick and Purple Crush

TUTORIAL TIME! 

I'm now realizing that the sponge in this picture is a little misleading. I really did only use those four colors above, but I took the sponge picture after I had used it on a couple fingers so the colors started to blend together to create orange, green, and indigo. 

Anywho, I hope you're all having a loverly day! I went to the Orthodontist today for the first time in a billion years and I think they were honestly surprised to see me. 

Thanks for reading! 

Face It Check Check Nail Kit (Aka: first thing I've ever ordered from Korea) Picture Heavy!

(All pictures embiggen)

STORY TIME!

So about a month ago, I came across this very cool nail polish kit.

In this kit, came 3 jelly polishes:

This kit also came with instructions on the back, which may have been more useful if I could read Korean: 

But thanks to graduating Kindergarten, I was able to follow the pictures! 

And I lived happily ever after! 

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So yeah. This is a fun kit. I ended up using striping tape for the white line, which I think was a good and bad decision. Good: the white line is straight and awesome. Bad: it makes it more painfully obvious how bad I am at free handing straight lines.

Here be a tutorial: 

By the time I had figured out how I was going to accomplish this mani and taken all the pictures along the way, it was late and I was tired. So I thought, "What if I use a sponge for the lines, like I would a gradient, only don't mix the colors?"

You can say it. I'm a genius. 

Quite a different look, but significantly faster. I think it looks... vaguely watercolored? I like it a lot. Possibly more than the original, but that might be because it looks neater. The sponge looked like this:

Both of these looks could very likely be done with any jelly polishes, but this kit was only ten bucks, $13 with shipping, and I didn't have any jelly polishes in these colors. 

If you're interested in buying the kit, I got mine here. They also sent me a whole bunch of beauty samples AND a personalized thank you note, which was unexpected and pretty rad. 

Anywho, I hope you are all doing well! It's finally getting warm here and I'm excited! 

Thanks for reading!