Grunge nails

So another nail trend I've recently discovered is "grunge nails"

I found this great blog called fuckyeahnailart

which has epic nail art pictures - go on check them out

through them I found these nails 

Ok- not a fan on the pointyness but the colours look cool

and the tutorial here

and these nails

Which are super pretty and look sort of like sunset.

with a tutorial here

So I decided to try "grunge nails" out for myself. 

My first attempt was a little off - I think I used too many colours and layers (so it went a bit lumpy and gooey)

I used:

1) Bling Bright Blue

2) Australis Blackmail

3) Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow

4) OPI A Roll in the Hague

5) Sally Hansen Fuchsia Bling Bling

6) Revlon No Shrinking Violet

after applying all six layers I dipped a paint brush in nail polish remover and swirled it around the nail.

It was much harder than the tutorial's made it sound - it took a while before I saw any new colours and I ended up with a lot of gooey nail polish piled up around the coloured spot. 

See this picture

The effect was cool - and if they had all turned out looking like this nail (most of them turned into brown gooey mess) I may have kept the polish on. 

but I decided to remove all the polish and 

Try Again

and this time - It worked!

well - it was much better than before

I used:

1) Sally Hansen Fuchsia Bling Bling

2) Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow

3) OPI A Roll in the Hague

I then found a more-bristly brush and followed the same steps.  

admittedly afterwards I did dab a tiny bit of pink back onto the nail - as I got a bit too excited with the remover and had bits of NailSkin showing.

I like the finished look