31 Day Challenge - Day 10 - Gradient - City Skyline

Looks like we are finally done with the colored days and now are onto the technique days. Day 10 brings us to Gradients, a technique which I have grown to love. My first gradient was a skittle manicure which took forever to complete, but was so pretty in the end. Next, I attempted beach sunset, then most recently a glittery gradient for a Guest Post at Polish Pixelle. Each time I do a gradient, I feel more confident and believe I have gotten better. With this manicure, I feel that I have rocked the technique. I seem to have completely covered all white spaces, while at the same time having a pretty blend of colors.



I didn't want to do a simple gradient for this manicure. Since this is the nail art challenge, I needed to incorporate nail art somehow. I began planning the manicure by thinking what aspects of life are a gradient of colors. Looking at the sky, I realized that the skyline itself was a gorgeous gradient. I Googled "skyline nail art" and found a cute city skyline nail art done by the one and only @cutepolish. I loved the gradient colors and the nail art, so I had to try it.



Here's how it came out. Excuse the messy edges, I had a hella hard time cleaning them and finally gave up. Blue stains, white is a butt to come out of the edges. I really don't care.





Base

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

Gradient

Sinful Colors - Midnight Blue



Ulta - TuTu Cute

Glitter Top over Gradient

China Glaze - Fairy Dust

Buildings

Sinful Colors - Black on Black



Sinful Colors - Unicorn

Pretty, pretty, pretty. Love these nails and how they brought life to a very simple gradient. I followed the video pretty much step by step. I painted on a base of white nail polish. Then with a make up sponge, I painted on Midnight Blue and Tutu Cute and dabbed onto the nail. Instead of putting a quick dry top coat on like cutepolish did, I put on a coat of Fairy Dust. To me, Fairy Dust looked like stars in the night sky, so I had to put it on. Then, I added my black buildings and lil yellow windows, and was done. I avoided adding the crescent moon because I thought it would take away from the starry look in the sky and would ruin the art.





If I were to attempt these nails again, I think I would do a tad more purple. Although, with the amount of purple I do have, it gives the illusion that the buildings are glowing on the skyline.





What do you think? Good gradient, bad gradient? Would you ever attempt these nails?

Colors Used:As a reminder, check out the other lovely ladies!!!