Gelish Colour Fade

Colour Fading effects with soak off gel is very popular in my salon.
They look lovely and also growths (or free edges if it's French look) won't be so visible till they come back for next appointments. ( so they stretch it to 4-5 weeks, that's the cons :))
All pics in this page is used Gelish.
I'm not a big fan of using Gelish for nail art, but Gelish works brilliantly for fading effects.

For the nails above, I used "sweet chocolate" mixed with  MAC gold pigments and "night shimmer".
Pick up a tiny amount of the pigments with cocktail stick and mix with "sweet chocolate"
Prep the nails and foundation gel, cure.

Add a bit of "sweet choc/gold" into "night shimmer" and mix, colour in the 1. Cure.

Add more "sweet choc/gold" to the colour you just used for 1. Colour in the 2. Cure.

Colour in the 3 with "sweet choc/gold" and cure.

Apply those layers very thin, otherwise you'll see the gap between the layers.

I tend to use "Vegas nights" (or any glittery gel) on top, this makes the fading look more smooth.

And of course, top it off and cure.

Sheer colours are easy to do and matte opaque colours are difficult especially white! and to be honest, Gelish Sleek White is a killer :) I tried but I had to do 5 layers of whites. (if it's soak off gels like Bio Sculpture and Calgel, 3-4 layers of whites)
So I don't do white fading with Gelish, if it has to be Gelish I would do with Night Shimmer / Sleek White.

 

Gelish Sleek White fading

And...  Yes, I do mix good quality pigments with gel occasionally.
We use colourdrops with monomer and gel, so why not?
I heard some people mix watercolour paint with gel which I'm not sure about, but I never had problems with mixing a tiny amount of pigments, it works fine. However, I don't mix anything with base coat gel or top coat gel.

These are the pigments I have.

MAC pigments are great, high pigmentation and the powder is very fine.
The primary colours are from an art shop, some art pigments are poisonous. Seek advice!
White and yellow I have is actually edible, you might have this "Indian Yellow" in your kitchen cupboard for your pilau rice :) "Turmeric!!"

 A: June Bride / Light Elegant

B: Simple Sheer / Good Gossip

C: Taffeta / Red Wine

D: Simple Sheer / Night Shimmer + green pigments

E: Night Shimmer / Midnight Caller + purple
pigments

 This pic doesn't show the true colour, E is same as the one on this.

Clients pics. (some of them are not Gelish and good old pics ahhhhhh)

Gelish Red Wine / Simple Sheer

Light Elegant base / White fading

Lilac

Cream

Blue