Monday, May 2, 2011

Greydient

(I forgot to put my fact in earlier...whoops. But here it is now!)

A brain tumor is a cluster of abnormal cells growing in the brain. - American Brain Tumor Association

For my first grey manicure of the month, I did a grey gradient. I'd never done a gradient manicure before, but it was surprisingly easy - in fact, I used a packing peanut for my "sponge," and it worked out just fine. I used a base of Dr.'s Remedy Healing Heather Grey, then added Pure Ice Kiss Me Here, and finally, added Zoya Kelly. I then applied Wet n Wild Clear and Seche Vite to smooth it all out.

indoors, artificial light

I'm really happy with the way this turned out - I think the colors blend quite nicely, and combine to make this kind of dirty, grungy look that is still chic. I'm a fan. Since I only have a few greys in my collection and every post except those on Fridays will have grey in it, I think it'd be safe to say that I'll be doing more, different greydients throughout May - grey to blue? grey to pink? grey to green? Anything could happen... :)

Finally, you may have noticed that I put a tab on the top of my blog for National Brain Tumor Awareness Month. I changed a couple of the things that I said in my earlier post, so you may want to go check it out. Until next time (which is hopefully sooner than the gap between this and my last post)!

12 comments:

  1. Awesome. A packing peanut. I LOVE that idea. So creative, you are.

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  2. Thank you! I didn't have a sponge, so I looked around my room...and saw
    packing peanuts. :)

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  3. Very cool mani! I will be wearing gray polish this weekend for Mother's Day, too.

    PS Happy early birthday!
    April

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  4. looks great! I can't wait to try it and I have lots of peanut packing thingies. Currently wearing grey and will have a post up soon about it :)

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  5. Thank you! I never know what to do with packing peanuts, so I'm glad I've
    found a use for them. :)

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  6. It looks like smoke, really cool~

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  7. ohh!! awesome mani! :)

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  8. Thank you! It does look kind of smoky...

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  9. Thanks! I liked it much more than I expected to. :)

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  10. I also meant to say, thank you for sharing your story. You have been through so much already at a young age. I admire your courage and openness to share!

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  11. Thank you again! :) I was really hesitant about sharing it with the blogging
    community, but I'm definitely glad I did.

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