Stepping Away From The Jewel Tones

I'm about wore out on the deep sultry tones of winter.  I was rooting through my local Ross for Christmas presents for yours truly the other week and came upon an unnamed set of Color Club neons.  I've compared them to swatches of CC collections, and I just can't pinpoint it.  So though it drives the OCD monster inside of me crazy, the swatches remain unnamed.

I have loved using my thin nail art brush more, and I thought about creating a tie-dye look, a la the rubber band method we did in high school one time.  To disastrous results.

I am happy to report that not only were THESE results not disastrous, I quite like them.  You can see the progression as I couldn't leave well enough alone, and added a layer of Essie Carnival on top for some glitter.  I'm sorry, but there is nothing glitter can't make better.

I started with a base of Barielle Enduring, a creamy snow white.  I then laid down a thousand brush strokes each of the unnamed Color Club Hot Pink, Electric Blue, and Neon Yellow.  You can see where the blue wasn't quite dry yet, as the yellow turned green.

And now for the reason anyone cares - the pictures!

Like a beautiful radioactive sky.  Get your gas masks, the colors are lovely tonight.

Another angle!

This is the opposite hand with glitter!  Which kind of dulled the colors, sadly enough.  Weird.

Not weird enough to make me un-love you.  You're my precious.

A teeny bit time consuming, I consider this method completely worth the results.  I got to the point where I wasn't even cleaning the brush because, hell, it was just going back and forth anyway.  I liked the stripe variations, and yes, even the globs.