NOTD: Green Ombre Nails for St. Patrick's Day!

This is my attempt at green ombre nails. I spent hours, well maybe just an hour, sorting through and arranging and rearranging all my green polishes to see which ones would work. Well let me tell you that just because you may have hundreds of nail polishes and a ton of one color, doesn't necessarily mean you can do the ombre look you want. You need to have the same base color in all of the colors, and they need to fade naturally. Now, clearly there are no rules, and mine don't look bad, but I wish I have a few more color options to make them fade better, so just have fun! Especially with green though, I was having these few issues. One, I don't have all that many, probably more than the average person, but it's not the color I grab for regularly. Two, I really wanted to use a mint color but that was standing out way too much and it was too blue based as were a lot of my greens, so you'll see what I needed to do.

So I did end up coming up with five different polishes, although another option would be to repeat one or two colors. My mom thoughtfully offered her nails as testers for a while until she got fed up with all my indecisiveness. But, we finally came to this combination.

I apologize that my nails are so unbelievably short, but I've been biting them lately! Which is why painting them should hopefully help me stop again and help them grow!

Left to right = pinky to thumb.

The Wet'n'Wild color I used is literally so old, you can tell by the packaging, it has no name.

So, as you can see, rather than a true ombre light to dark look, it's more of a bright to dark? I don't really know, I like it. Also, I know for a fact the color on my thumb, Essie Pretty Edgy, is going to stain, so I won't be keeping this on very long, not that I would have anyway, but just saying. It's also worth mentioning that the Avon polish on my pinkies, Olive Green, only needed one coat! It was an amazing consistency, super creamy and opaque, although I don't know of you can get it anymore, those polishes are worth checking out!

Did anyone do anything crazy or fun for St. Patty's Day? What green are you wearing? I'll also be sporting my Pandora charms that I've switched around just for today. I put all my green glass beads and my shamrock on the black rope bracelet! Have fun everyone!