opi - Lucy's Stash

Hello lovelies,

I love colourful manicures and this one is just spot on! It's a rainbow sponge gradient finished off with black lace foil.

Firstly I've painted my nails with OPI Alpine snow which makes the colours nice an vivid. Then I've used a corner of a makeup sponge to apply following polishes: China Glaze Sunshine Pop, China Glaze For Audrey, OPI Dutch 'Ya Just Love OPI?, China Glaze Dance Baby, China Glaze Poinsettia. I purposely went for a grainy look otherwise I would paint stripes of colours on the sponge to achieve more blended look. I've sealed the colours with a coat of Seche Vite topcoat.

When it all dried I've applied a thin layer of foil glue and let it dry. Then I applied a black lace pattern foil (I got mine from Rio Beauty) and sealed again with topcoat. Lace foils are a bit problematic as sometimes they don't stick properly. I found the result good enough this time :)

Hope you like it!

Lucy's Stash - Rainbow gradient nails decorated with black foil lace

And this is how my nails looked like before applying the foil glue and foil lace..

Hello lovelies,

I've done a video tutorial for this manicure back in June so it's long overdue. I'd love to show you more videos but it's such a pain for me to edit them and upload them :-/

Anyway...after doing my first ever stripy manicure using striping tape, I wanted to repeat it but with different colours. I've used following polishes: OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, China Glaze Grape Pop, Zoya Lotus and Zoya Pinta.

Hope my tutorial will help you to recreate something similar. If you do please credit back to me and share this tutorial so it inspires others :)

EDIT: I forgot to mention that it's really important to use fast drying topcoat after applying two coats of polish. Let it dry for about 10 minutes and then you can apply the striping tape