Today’s post is just a quickie nail art design that I did this week. I wanted to do a blue and white gradient with white snowflakes over top. It didn’t turn out quite as elegant as I had imagined in my head due to the stamping image that I selected, which is a winter sweater snowflake pattern. It looks nice, but I would like to try this again with a different snowflake pattern or maybe some freehand snowflakes.
I started with two coats of Gelish Arctic Freeze, and then burnished two pigment powders into the tacky layer to create the gradient effect (INK Masquerade & CND Cerulean Blue). Watch this video to learn how to create gradients and some other cool effects using pigments/additives. I wish I would’ve thought to take a picture of the gradient before I applied the stamp, because it was really pretty on its own.
I applied a thin layer of top coat over my gradient, wiped the tacky layer and then stamped the snowflake pattern onto my nails using Mundo de Unas white stamping polish and an image from the MoYou Festive 06 plate.
