Laid-Back 31 DC: My Favorite Nail Art Technique

Can rainbows be a favorite nail art technique? I've been obsessed with chromatic groupings of colors ever since I got a Rainbow Bright book as a kid. I was mesmerized by all the red things on one page and all orange on the next. That's just the way colors should be right? One tragic day that book fell between the slats in the porch deck never to be seen again (well, at least not until several years later when the siding finally got rickety enough for me to pull apart a gap wide enough to squeeze through and rescue my now water damaged and moldy book). To this day I still arrange everything in my closet by color.

 

Ok, so maybe rainbows aren't, in fact, a nail art technique. I'll go for hand painted then. There's something satisfying about painting freehand. Even though the lines are a bit crooked I still feel a sense of accomplishment I just don't get from striping tape or stamping.

 

All stripes were painted with a nail art brush or the brush that comes in the bottle. Colors used (I think this may be my all time record): 30 plus base and top coat. I also stuck in a few glequins from Born Pretty for extra sparkle. Here we go- thumb to pinkie, base to tip.

 

Purples:

Ulta, Vintage Violet

Love & Beauty, Purple/Gold

Savvy, Deep Amethyst

Zoya, Julieanne

Victoria's Secret, Game On

 

Blues:

Sinful Colors, Calypso

China Glaze, Shower Together

Petites, Corduroy

Spoiled, Distant Memory

Ulta, Mint Condition

 

Greens:

Spoiled, Permission to Proceed

LA Colors, unnamed green

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails, Limestone

Finger Paints, Guggen I'm Lime

Nina Ultra Pro, Mossy Britches

China Glaze, Holly-Day

Revlon Colorstay, Rain Forrest

 

Orange/Yellows:

Zoya, Gabrielle

Wet n Wild, Sunny Side Up

Spoiled, Did I Dye It Too Blonde?

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri, Expres-so Yellow

Sinful Colors, Unicorn

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure, Golden Rule

 

Reds:

Sinful Colors, Easy Going

Spoiled, Plastic Flamingo

Ulta, Eye Popping Poppy

Spoiled, Hit The Brakes

Finger Paints, Romanticism Ruby

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails, Brick Wall

Wet n Wild Megalast, Haze of Love