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Okay, so now we we're going to go in and add the ominous clouds over the pyramid. To do
ombre, some people use brushes, I prefer to use a sponge. It's the one thing that you
need, just a basic make-up sponge. You don't want anything too porous. If you can see big
gaping holes that's not the make-up sponge for you. But a good flat-ended, the skinny
side is my personal favorite. It fits nicely in a hand and will give you the perfect ombre.
Now typically, I use this side, if I'm going to the whole nail with ombre. When I'm lining
the nail in ombre, I use the skinny side. So here's what I do. I'll take the polish
and paint it along the edge just thinly and gently. Then when you don't want it to look
goopy or be dripping off the sides, if you just give it a second, it will all absorb
into the sponge. You don't want to act until it's in the pores, but you still need to act
fast.
Then I go along the edge of the nail and I gently tap, so it gives it this soft, fuzzy
frame. Don't worry, if while you're doing this kind of ombre, if it gets on the side
of the skin, it'll be so easy to clean up. Because you are adding such a thin delicate
layer of polish, it won't be like a normal stroke. If you see that you're polish has
gotten goopy over an edge, you can just tap it out on a paper towel. So ombre is just
shading. It's a gradiated color.
You can do ombre in yellow, orange, red. You can do ombre three shades of red. It all depends.
It's just about that gradation of color. I'm using here, to create the ominous cloud is
an ombre technique. You could use this with - do a black nail and edge it in white. You
could do a purple nail - edge it in gold. You could do green. You could do anything,
but because it's a gradiated color, it is an ombre. But you can do it with any color
and still use this technique. Now we top coat.