Fish Lure nails tutorial

Today, I will arrive late to a nail trend that I haven't seen on anyone that wasn't talking about it being a trend already, so, is this a trend or just a post taken too seriously? In any case, the result is so good and fun I feel like I have to show you:

 So, for this result, you could say all the steps are optional, as you don't really need a vertical gradient, nor the lines, nor the dots being concentrical, nor the gills. But I went specially extra to show you. In fact, it was so extra that I used seven different polishes, with six different formulas:

 

Lures are quite shiny and interesting in texture and I wanted to recreate that with my polishes. The shinier the better:

• Holo Taco's Oat Couture
• Holo Taco's Peridon't Bother me
• Holo Taco's Missed Shift
• Holo Taco's Ivy League
• Holo Taco's Frozen Benanas
• Holo Taco's Not Milky White
• Holo Taco's One Coat Black

I started with Oat Couture. I wanted to do the weirdest gradient I've ever tried, different formulas and completely opposite colours, to give it that effect of a top and a bottom side, and you know I was going to pick green, so nude it is:

 Usually, gradients are done from cuticle to free edge, but I decided to make it vertically, so one half of the nail is this nude holographic and the other would be green. Think that these colours and formulas won't mix well, so I took whatever started to look good in my gradient and moved on:

I accept the muddy middle colour as even something good, honestly. Again, this step is optional but in the "bottom" side of the nail I wanted to draw three curved lines as some designs have, potentially emulating the parts on a lure to move around in the water and actually serve their purpose, but I'm not a fishing person, don't ask me about that. I went for my multichrome for this:

Finally, time to add the eye, and other dots now that we are at it. I did a bigger circle with a dotting tool with white, and the rest of the dots in the other half of the body with a dark green shimmer. Try to keep variation between these dots and give them ample time to dry to the touch:

My last step before top coat was adding another colour accent, with my gold this time. I put smaller dots around the big ones and in the centers of the biggest ones, to add dimension to the design. I also added a small black dot to the eye just to make it look like an eye.

My last touch was adding a curved moon shape for the gills by the eye. And after this, wait for at least 10 minutes, ensure everything is dry to the touch and float your top coat. Dotticures are probably the biggest offenders for smearing, and I don't want you to mess it up by accident in this last step. The top coat will smooth out your surface and give better depth to the pigments like the holo to shine properly.

And this is this week's tutorial, I don't know what will happen next week as the heat here is not getting any milder. Apparently, the heat wave we were going to be under for 4 days became a 7 days wave, then 10... and the last reports say that we still have 4 more days for a total of two weeks. Who knows anymore? Maybe next week's tutorial is melted! Thanks for reading!