33DC Pixellated Gradient

Pixellated nail art is something I first did back in July. I have been seeing it around a lot more recently and thought it would be a great way to incorporate the prompts of three colour gradient with a pattern. I love the colour scheme of blue, grey and yellow that I used for this, they just go together so well. I used a single polish for each and then used white polish to change the saturation but keep it the same hue.

The polishes I used were A England Dorian Gray, Barry M Blue Grape and NYC Lexington Yellow. The yellow was the hardest to get different shade of at the right thickness, hence why there is so much less of it.

I did these nails by using the base I already had on (Nails Inc Covent Garden Ballet), putting OPI Matte Top Coat on and drawing a simple grid using my white Barry M nail art pen (these pens work so much better over a matte base. I then used a small brush to fill in the small squares, mixing a colour and putting it in across all my nails, then mixing the next colour. It took a surprisingly short amount of time to do- in the range of half an hour but I didn't have to paint my base colour on as well.

I love how this looks, it's so simple but really effective. If you're going to use the same effect as me with the lighter squares it's easier to pick a dark colour and lighten it in stages with white polish than it is to try and darken a colour without greying it. Tomorrow will be a small update about some new polishes available in the (UK) shops with a few swatches.

Mon 11 Nov – 3 colour gradient + pattern

1. Vic and Her Nails	2. Superficially Colorful	3. CrazyPolishes(Dimpal)
4. Glam-madam	5. MydailyNailDesigns	6. Polished Polyglot
7. cristina nails	8. Sam @ FingerFood	9. Cambridge Nails
10. Claire @ nuthin' but a nail thing	11. Kerruticles	12. Pretty Polishes
13. Helly NailNewbie	14. SpecialGirl Nails	15. Penny Pinching Polish
16. Pearl (preciouspearlmakeup)	17. Be Happy and Buy Polish	18. manicured monkey
19. Enigmatic Rambles	20. Druid Nails	21. Hey, Darling Polish
22. The Lacquer Confessionals	23. Nail Addict	24. Glowstars
25. Nails Down South	26. Aisuru Nails	27. Life In Color!
28. Casa de Polish	29. MegsManicures	30. Lacquer or Leave Her!: Before & After: One does no
31. Lucky Lucky Lacquer	32. baroque fool	33. Crumpet
34. Light of the Moon Nails	35. Brandie Collins	36. Glitter Me This
37. Linziino	38. Nail Polish Society	39. Obscenely Blue
40. Lane's Lacquers	41. My Adventures in Nail Art	42. Not Too Polished
43. Cómo te pintaste

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