For this month's #CBBxManiMonday Nail Art Roulette, we knew that we absolutely had to include Rainbow as one of our colour stories because we all love to celebrate Pride every year with nail art. I got SUPER lucky with my random number generator and landed on Texture as my theme, which we decided would refer to texture in terms of glitter, flakies or anything that would give an interesting... well, texture to the look, and I knew exactly what I wanted to do. (Although, to be honest, I probably would have made something very similar to this mani with a few of the possible pairings that could have come up....) Anyway, I put together this glittery Sharpie rainbow base, added some negative space heart stamping, and am completely in love with the look!

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Now to build the rainbow, start with the colour you're going to place closest to the cuticle and draw it into the bottom of your dappen dish. I applied quite a bit because I wanted it to be pretty opaque on the first pass and just sort of drew until I got good coverage on the bottom of my dappen dish. Next, you're going to add a small spritz of your alcohol into the dish and then mix with your brush to basically create an alcohol ink. Apply to all of your nails and then clean out your dish and brush with alcohol before moving onto the next colour. As you add colours, try to blend the edges into each other so that you get a good gradient rather than just stripes of colour. Once you've applied all of the colours and let them dry for a minute or two, apply at least one coat of top coat to seal them.

For the stamping, I went with white stamping polish and this great negative space image from PUEEN Fairytale Lover 02. I love the idea of the rainbow bursting out from the hearts because... Obviously, these are Pride nails. To finish, I added a generous coat of Seche Vive to seal in the stamping and voila!