Guest Post | Canadian Love & Indie Polish

Hello everyone!

I'm Chantal from Chantal's Corner and I'm really happy to be a guest for Classy on the Run today as part of the Canadian Beauty Bloggers' monthly guest posts.

Our theme this month is Canadian Love and at first I thought "oh yeah this will be easy!" But once I sat down and really thought about it I was drawing a blank as to what I was going to do. My first idea was to do some nail art with a beaver. I tried that and failed miserably; my beaver looked like a bear with a really weird looking tie, lol! There was no way I was going to show those nail to anyone, so back to the drawing board I went. I then remembered that I have two nail polishes from Cheeky Monkey Cosmetics (a Canadian brand) that would look really well together as a gradient, so that's what I did and this is the result!

Here are all the products I used for this:

• OPI Natural Nail Base Coat
• Cheeky Monkey Cosmetics "Get Wet"
• Cheeky Monkey Cosmetics "Anna's Eurotrash"
• CND Vinylux Weekly Top Coat
• Makeup sponges

After applying my base coat I put two coats of Get Wet as a base colour, then I used a makeup sponge to sponge on Get Wet and Anna's Eurotrash to create the gradient. I've learned the hard way that it's best to use a new sponge when switching hand because otherwise you'll end up with dry bits of nail polish over your gradient and dark/pale colours where you don't want them. And also grab a new sponge if you want to do some touch-ups after both hands are done.

Once you're happy with your gradient apply a top coat and voilà, you're done! :-)

I really like how these colours blend together, I find it looks like the ocean meeting up with the sky.

If you haven't heard of Cheeky Monkey Cosmetics before, make sure to check them out! They have some beautiful nail polish colours, and the product names are fun - some are quite risquÈ too! ;-)

I hope you liked my little shoutout to a Canadian brand, and thank you Alanna for having me as your guest today!

- Chantal :-)

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