40 Great Nail Art Idea - Black and White - Reciprocal Gradient

This week's colours were black and white and my pattern was Reciprocal Gradient. When I first saw this, apart from my fear of tackling the unknown, my first thought was - OK, that's good, two nice contrasting colours - this should work well - er... maybe not.
I did also think, I wonder if I can do this with stamping since vinyls and I don't get on well!
Anyway, I decided to do it the proper way - here goes.
I started with a base of Barry M Cotton and then did my gradient with Barry M Cotton and A England Camelot. I usually get away with quite a rough gradient but with hindsight I should have made more effort so make this one a bit smoother. You'll see on the finished mani I should have extended the blended bit further in each direction too - of course if I had unlimited time I would have done it again but it's blogged as it is, and serves as a learning experience :)
I think the base gradient looks a bit like snow topped mountains!
Then once I had waited a good long time for the base to be properly dry, I got on to the vinyls part. These went quite well, and I tried not to get too obsessive about getting them parallel.
I did the sponging, removed the vinyls and hey presto - reciprocal gradient that was not a complete disaster. Definitely room for improvement as I mentioned above but it could have been a lot worse.

black and white gradient

 

black and white reciprocal gradient

 

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