How to make an Ombre Nails

Ombre nails are a type of manicure in which a gradient effect is created. A light color on the bottom of the nail gradually blends into a darker color toward the tip. Getting it perfect can take time and practice, but here's how the basic technique is done.

Steps :

Part One: Applying Base Coat and Base Color

1. Apply a base coat. Use a product specifically labeled as a base coat. Brush it over the entire nail in even strokes. Wait for the base coat to dry before applying actual polish.
   
   
   
    
2. Paint your nails with your base color. Your base color should be the lighter of your two polishes. Wait until your base color dries completely before adding the contrasting color.
   
   
   

Part Two: Creating the Ombre Effect

1. Pour a small amount of both colors next to each other. On a paper plate, sheet of wax paper, or sheet of plastic, apply a decent amount of both colors immediately next to each other. The two patches should touch at the edge. The approximate size of both patches put together should not be much larger than the length of your nail.
   
   
   
    
2. Blend the two colors together at the edge. Use a toothpick to swirl the two colors together at their shared edge. Blend the colors together evenly to form a solid patch of a new shade. You should still have a large portion of your two original colors. The gradient effect will be determined by how wide the area if graduation is between the two puddles of polish. For a sharper contrast, only blend a small amount of the two colors together. For a stronger gradient, blend a larger amount of the edge.
   
   
   
    
3. Dab this polish into your nail. Dip a small makeup sponge in the graduated polish. Dab the sponge directly over your nail. Make sure that you have plenty of graduated polish on the sponge. Dip it down into the color directly to preserve the graduated effect created by blending the polishes together. Dab the graduated color into your nail. Move it in very small lengthwise strokes a few times to fix the polish into the nail and blend it in. You can repeat this step as necessary until you achieve the desired effect. Make sure that each application dries before you apply more polish, though.
   
   
   
    
4. Alternatively, you can apply the gradient directly to the nail. Instead of creating a graduated color to dab onto the nail, you can paint the contrasting color directly over your base color. Dip the tip of a small makeup sponge into your contrasting color. Smooth this color over the tip of your nail, working it all the way down to the halfway point of each nail. Apply the contrasting color in several layers. Each time, stop short of the point at which the previous layer ended. This will create a gradient effect along the nail, with the darkest spot being the very tip.
   
   
   

Part Three: The Finishing Touches

1. Apply a top coat. Like base coat, top coat is a specially formulated nail product designed to protect and prolong your nail polish. Wait until all layers of nail polish have dried before applying your top coat. Otherwise, you may end up smearing the polish. You may need to brush on several layers of top coat. The sponging technique produces a bumpy surface, and it may take more than a single layer of top coat to even this surface out. If you applied the contrasting color directly to the nail instead of blending it on a separate surface, the top coat can actually help to blend the colors further.
   
   
   
    
2. Clean off excess nail polish. Use a fine-tip brush dipped in nail polish remover to clean excess nail polish off your cuticles.
   
   
   
    
3. Finished.
   
   
   

    

    

   Happy Trying! :)

    

    

   Source : wikiHow