Polishes used (all from China Glaze):
Gossip Over Gimlets (metallic silver with gold flecks)
Strike Up A Cosmo (metallic pink with gold flecks)Rendezvous With You (metallic deep purple)
I started by painting all my nails with two coats of GOG; Whenever I'm doing a design like this, I always start with the lightest color I'm using as my base since it's a lot easier to paint a darker color over a lighter one. After letting that completely dry, I took a piece of striping tape and blocked out a third of my nail diagonally. I had to actually think about where I wanted to place the tape on my nail, though. Since I wanted the patterns on each nail to all be different, I needed to have the first section of some nails (the one starting from the cuticle) be the lightest color. So to do that, for the nails I planned to have GOG be the first blocked section, I placed the striping tape a bit lower down on my nail bed than the ones placed on the nails that began with other colors. That's because the striping tape covers up a bit of the color to begin with, so if you adjust the placement of it by a millimeter or two, all the color blocked sections will end up being the same size as all the others.
I did one block at a time, one nail at a time; Meaning that I would block off one section of each nail with striping tape, paint that section, and then move on to the next nail. I did that so each nail would have enough time to dry before I used more tape. From there, I basically painted each nail the same design, but in different color sequences using SUAC and RWY. It sounds so overly complicated trying to type this out; Trust me, it's SO simple.
I absolutely LOVE color blocked designs. I think it would look great with really bright, fun colors, or even just simple black and white! That's the best part about graphic-looking nail art, it looks awesome with pretty much any type of color!
Thanks for reading!
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