Ombre nails are in no way new. Not to me, not to you, not to the fashion world. BUT they are awesome so I’m going to do a post on them anyway.
But first off, a quick review on the new Rita Ora x Rimmel nail varnish in White Hot Love. I love white nail varnishes but haven’t found the one- the one that doesn’t apply patchy, or streaky, or barely opaque. White Hot Love promises to be a one coat nail varnish that dries in 60 seconds, so that kind of suggests one quick coat and you have perfectly opaque white nails, ready for summer.
The verdict? Na-da. Firstly, the bottle makes the colour look kind of shimmery, but it isn’t, which I don’t mind except I was expecting shimmer. The first coat is thin and streaky, and it takes three medium coats to get a good solid white base. True to Rimmel, it does dry quickly, and I didn’t realllllly expect it to be a one coat wonder, but I was still disappointed!
Anyway, ombre nails!
You can do ombre nails a few different ways, but I do them by painting the nails the base coat. I then paint the tip of a wedge sponge in the ombre colour (naughty naughtical by Essie, fab colour, no complaints here) and dab this on to the tips of the nail- the trick is to kind of offload the majority of colour here, and then when the sponge has hardly any nail varnish left, dab it further down. This deposits less colour, so that you get a dip dyed effect. You can also do it by only dabbing a tiny amount on initially, and building up the layers throughout.
My favourite colour duos for ombre nails is white with any pastel colour, orange with pink, and silver with blue. You can create quite a good galaxy effect if you layer up black with navy, shimmery blue and purple, and silver. Well, I can’t but I’ve seen it on Pinterest and it looks amazing.
