How to: Summer Ombré Nails!

I am so glad that I decided to grow my own nails. It's so much cheaper now I'm not spending money on acrylics. My nails are also healthy and I love painting them different styles. I've got a whole board on pinterest dedicated to painted nails which you can check out here! So after being inspired by summer and beautiful ombré nails I painted my own, and here's how I did it. This was super difficult to photograph..

You will need..

2 Coloured Nail Polish

Clear Top Coat Polish

A Small Sponge

Nail Polish Remover

Cotton Buds

Firstly, I started with a base coat to strengthen and protect my nails from breakage. I just use a Rimmel one. Then I put one coat of the colour I wanted to be the base of the ombré. I used this blue colour by Rimmel, #842 'too cool to tango' I just applied a light coat over each of my nails.

Next I used a bit of plastic I had lying around to put this on.. you could use a bit of paper. Next I just put a splodge of each colour next to each other and applied onto the sponge. I cut the sponge so it was smaller and created less mess. The yellow colour is Rimmel's #450 'get your shades on'

Just dunking the sponge in.. It helps if it's damp too.. Makes the polish dry out less quickly.

After it's on the sponge, I just gently pressed against my nail, blending the two colours together till I thought it looked okay. I kept doing this to every nail and repeating the last few steps.

It does get a little bit messy but it's not anything you can't fix. I just got a cotton bud dunked in nail varnish remover and carefully cleaned it all up.

I like to let my polish dry and breathe a little bit before applying the top coat. It did look a little bobbly and sponge like before the top coat, but don't worry it will go away. After letting them breathe and dry a bit, I applied the top coat.

And voila! That's my summer themed ombré nails! I'm really happy with them considering this was my first ever attempt at an ombré nail. I'm also really proud of how far my nails have come, I have always been a terrible nail biter. Excuse my longer nails, my others broke at a festival, but they will get there! Have you tried ombré nails?

Emily

Rimmel Nail Polish Haul - So cheap!

Hi guys, recently I have been getting into nails more. After growing my real nails super long I've become much more interested in polish and having pretty nails all the time! Unfortunately at Download Festival, I broke the majority of them so I am having to start again, but fear not, they are getting there!

I checked out Fragrance Direct, one of my favourite websites for getting super cheap bargains, they always have makeup on special offer so I had a look to see what nail polish they had on offer! you can find fragrance direct here.

Im super picky about the applicator brushes and I love the double bristled ones from Rimmel, and yay they had them! Only 99p for most of them too!

Rimmel Salon Pro // £1.29 each // Fragrance Direct

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I couldn't get over how cheap they were selling these for.. they are my favourite nail polish and I'm forever picking them up from Boots etc. But for £1.29! The only downside is that they didn't have many colours but I picked these in 'get a nail tan' a beautiful tan colour and 'summer orange' a bright orange, perfect for summer. If you haven't tried these I highly recommend them!

Rimmel 60 Seconds Nail Polish // 99p each // Fragrance Direct

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I never tried these before, mainly because I'm fussy about the applicator's, but when I found out that these actually have the thicker brushes I was so happy. That means more colour selection but also they are so dead cheap at only 99p! 99p! How good is that! They have quite a lot more of a colour choice on these too. I got 'little bo peep' 'too cool to tango' and 'get your shades on' (left to right)

Rimmel Space Dust (Aurora) // £1.25 // Fragrance Direct

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Rimmel Stronger Nail Care // £1.99 // Fragrance Direct

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The Rimmel Space Dust, I actually love, it again has the thicker brushes which I love, but it also has so much glitter on it, you don't have to keep applying hundreds of coats of it. In fact one was enough. The stronger nail care is so my nails don't break anymore. After dealing with all my broken nails I'm trying to get them stronger so they don't snap. Hopefully this should do the trick!

So that's what I got altogether, which I think was £10 not including shipping, I love Fragrance Direct they have such great bargains and for a student on a budget, to get great branded products at a ridiculous price, well that's just perfect for me.

Have you ever tried their website?

Emily.