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So now we're going to do a neon ombre I like to call Tequila Sunrise. We're going to use
orange and also a hot pink. So you start with white, two coats of white and then do one
coat of the yellow, and it should give you this even bright, popped out neon finish.
You have to add a base coat always. But when doing neon to really make the colors come
through, you need to use a nude or white under them.
Okay, so the first step is to take a makeup sponge, anything that isn't too porous. You
want it to be squishy, but you don't want to see big gaping holes and you paint a corner.
You want to make sure that the polish, you don't want to paint it on too gloppy, so you
want to make sure that you can still see the pores. If you don't, you can give it a second
to dry and see if it settles in. If not, tap it out on a paper towel.
Then you just go into the nail, starting at the tip and gently tap down the nail. I kind
of go in a circular motion to get it to mimic the shape of her nail. Then I do one more
layer just to give it that darker depth. You don't want to start out putting too much paint
on, because thin layers dry fast. But if you put a bunch of goopy layers it will never
dry, so less is more with ombre. So you want to have the orange more concentrated, as you
get to the tip.
Which is why you start out, first tapping it out here and then moving it gently and
you want it softer, out into the center and about three-quarters of the way down the nail,
two-thirds. It's totally classic. It goes with everything. You can do any colors you
want. I love to add ombre metallic at the tip. Just take a dark color and add some - use
the same technique as the ombre, and just do a metallic tip. That's like soft, instead
of doing like a harsh French. Okay, so then we're going to take my pink and do the same
thing, but only go about a third of the way down the nail.
Don't worry about getting nail polish on the side. When you're doing the ombre technique,
it's so thin that it will be very easy to take off even easier than regular polish.
A simple swipe of a Q-tip will definitely take care of it. Next hand, then I'll show
you what I do at the end. So as you can see the pink doesn't really - it's darkening the
orange. But it's not really standing on its own two feet. So then I'll take my brush at
the edge and just do sort of a round upside down half-moon, to give it that accentuated
pink tip.