Ombre Manicure with Floral Stamping

I did this manicure earlier this week. I chose 3 of my most beautiful OPI nail polishes and wanted to find a way to use them together and this ended up being the result!

First, I painted an off-white base color, and I used OPI - My Boyfriend Scales Walls (seriously, I love that polish! I need a backup already!). Next I did a gradient using my 3 OPI colors and a makeup wedge. Those 3 colors (from cuticle to tip) are:

• OPI - Dim Sum Plum (the bottle I'm holding)
• OPI - No Room for The Blues
• OPI - Fly

I think I might have sponged on 2 layers of the gradient to make the colors look really bold. After that dried, I used one of my stamping plates (BM16, which I got in a large set through Amazon), to stamp on the daisy pattern. I love how girly and whimsical that plate is! I had to stamp it twice on each nail to fill up my entire nail since the BM plates are so tiny, but I think it turned out great considering it's 2 stamps and not just one.

I can't get over how nicely the colors blended! What do you think?

NOTD: Pink & Green Tribal Ikat

Well, here goes nothing- my first post! I have wanted to start a blog up for some time now to accompany my Instagram posts and to go into more detail on my manicures.

I'll start with a manicure I did a couple days ago: a pink and green ikat pattern over nude.

The base color I started off with was OPI's "Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh?" Then I added thick stripes of the pink (OPI's "If You Moust, You Moust") and green (Essie's "Mojito Madness") on alternating sides of the nail. Next I added an off-white blob in the middle of each thick stripe, and for this I used OPI's "My Boyfriend Scales Walls."Last but not least I used a black Sally Hansen nail art pen to draw a staggered pattern both in the middle of the white and around the pink/green. I sealed with Seche Vite topcoat, and that's it!

I like this pattern. It's different from a lot of other nail art which can be really girly. I wasn't sure about the color combination because I am one of the seemingly few people who don't think pink and green go together, but I ended up liking it a lot. I also really love the Sally Hansen nail art pens. I use them for leopard print nails as well and they work so much better than a striper polish or using a toothpick or dotting tool!

What do you think of this manicure? Do pink and green go together?