Baby boomer nails

[chloenicholex]

I’m practising baby boomer style on nails but having a struggle trying to blend the two colours. I don’t like using a sponge to blend it.

anyone help?!?

 

[7th-Heaven]

Are you using hard gel, acrylic, or gel polish?
With hard gel and acrylic, it can more easily be achieved.
With gel polish, you have a few options, such as airbrush tool, or ombre brush, or a sponge, but I have yet to see a result that I like even from an experienced professional.

 

[chloenicholex]

I’m using gel.. Iv been practising using a brush but it takes me 4-5 layers to achieve something that is just acceptable[emoji51][emoji51]

 

[7th-Heaven]

I’m using gel.. Iv been practising using a brush but it takes me 4-5 layers to achieve something that is just acceptable[emoji51][emoji51]

With hard gel, I like to mix the white and clear building gels to a milky consistency (how milky will be personal preference, and the more baby boomers you do, the more you will tweak your mixture). Apply this at the tips to the thickness of a credit card (standard tip thickness), and slightly brush the white upwards on the nail plate just to blend it a bit. Don't worry too much about how the blend looks atm - now cure it in your lamp. We are going over and building the structure now, with a cover pink of your choice Take your medium bead of cover pink gel and build apex as normal, and lightly brush the excess across the white gel, clean your brush and take off any remaining excess pink on the white tip if you feel it is necessary. This should automatically create a nice blend between the white and pink, but it requires you do the majority of your sculpting with your brush, because when you file you don't want to be going through the pink/white blend too heavily. I would practice this on a few practice nails and see if you can get the hang of it, and perhaps it works for you Good luck.

Edit:
This video by April Ryan kind of shows a milky white being used on the tips, and a cover pink on top.

 

[NZNailz]

If it's gel polish you are referring to - try an 'ombre' nail art brush super easy and achieves a very seamless blend compared to sponging