26 Great Nail Art Ideas: Reciprocal Gradient

I've never done a reciprocal gradient before and while I think it worked, next time I wouldn't use a peel off base coat as the liquid latex and the striping tape kept trying to pull away the polish.

Nail Polishes Used:
Nails Inc - Piccadilly Circus
MUA - Deepest Purple

Liquid Latex
Striping Tape
Make Up Sponge

Review: Born Pretty Store - Latex Odour Free Liquid Palisade Peel Off Barrier # 36614*

 

This is a 10ml bottle of liquid peel off latex barrier for nail art. It is to protect the cuticle and finger from more messy nail art so that the clean up isn't so laborious and time consuming using a brush dipped in acetone. This dries quickly and peels off easily, very simple to use. I have reviewed the standard peel off barrier from Born Pretty Store and that one does have a strong smell to it, this one is completely scent free.

It comes in a box in a nail polish style bottle with a normal brush type applicator. The square lid lifts off to reveal a normal rounded polish bottle handle. I used this to paint the area around my nail. This goes on a lighter pink colour as seen on my ring and pinkie fingers and dries to a darker peach colour as seen on the rest of my fingers.

I will show how I used it below, in some seasonal snowflake nail art.

Base: A England - Natasha's Dance / War and Peace

Once dried on all nails it was time to stamp;

Then to peel off the barrier;

These are the nails after removing the barrier, there was still some clean up to do but not as much as there would have been had I not have used it;

And finally the nails with clean up done;

I like to use a barrier when I am stamping a larger imagine on to my nails, or when doing something which will need a heavy duty clean up such  as a sponged gradient or a water marble. The fact that this version is scent free is a bonus.

I have a discount code if you would like to use it;

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$7.99

Review: Born Pretty Store - Liquid Palisade Latex Peel Off Barrier # 27296*

This is a 6ml bottle of liquid peel off latex barrier for nail art. It is to protect the cuticle and finger from more messy nail art so that the clean up isn't so laborious and time consuming using a brush dipped in acetone. This dries quickly and peels off easily, very simple to use.

I will show how I used it below, the mermaid nail art is from Friday's 40 Great Nail Art Ideas post.

It comes in a nail polish style bottle with a normal brush type applicator. I used this to paint the area around my nail;

 Once that was dry, which didn't take very long. You can tell it is dried because it changes colour. I used a make up sponge to sponge on a gradient;

As you can see this did make a bit of a mess. Then I went on to stamp on a mermaid scale design, which again made a mess around the nail;

Finally using tweezers I peeled off the barrier, leaving the fingers and cuticle area clean;

The final nail look;

Another example of when I used this was for a blue gradient;

Again once removed it left my fingers clear of all polish mess. Which is particularly useful for gradient and stamping;

Then I added a seahorse accent;

You can check out all of the new arrivals at BornPrettyStore here and what is currently most popular here.

Born Pretty Store
$3.89