Ombre Nails (Browns)

So I've always wanted to try this trend out but didn't really feel like hunting to the perfect shades to match up for the ombre look. I recently did a Lalaloopsy nail art design inspired by the dolls and I actually mixed a dark brown with a light beige color to create a dark skin tone color. I loved that it turned out so well and so I figured mixed two more shades wouldn't be too hard... So what I did was mix the colors together on a piece of paper but if I had some empty nail polish bottles I would have definitely mixed to make whole bottles. Nude shades are always beautiful and I loved all these.

For this look I used these two colors, Revlon's Hot For Chocolate and Sally Hansen's Beige Blast.

I started by painting the pinky nail with the beige and the thumb with the dark brown.

For the ring finger shade, I mixed a very tiny amount of the chocolate color and a large amount of the beige.

This is how the color turned out.... but I would have liked it to be a little darker after I was done with them all.

After each color I mixed I made sure to wipe my brush off on the paper very well to prevent ruining the color.

For the next color I used equal amounts of both colors.

And more dark brown for the final color.

Here is how they turned out. I was pretty pleased with them and it makes me want to get started on mixing a lot more polishes.

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Nail Polish Haul (Sally's)

I picked up a flaky polish from the brand FingerPaints that's supposed to be a dupe for Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure which is a beautiful blue and orange flaky polish.

The other two are from Christmas collections I believe and I got them at a reduced price of 2 bucks each, which was awesome!! Lol

 The first color is a beautiful dark green by China Glaze in the color Holly-day. I don't have a color like this so it was a goo find.

       

I applied one coat of Flashy from Finger Paints over the green to try it out.

The next color, Orly in the color Le Chateau. In the bottle it looked like a tealish blue color and it looked beautiful.

But on the nails it looked find of black, I was a little disappointed, because other than in this light the color would just look like a solid black color.

           

Again I applied the flaky polish over this one, it gave a nice effect also.

Finally I painted my nails black and applied about 3-4 coats of the flaky polish and it looked wonderful, I love the effect of it and the many layers of it gave it a closer look to the Hidden Treasure polish.

Overall considering the price I paid for them all together, I think it was a deal.

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