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COLOUR THEORY & HOW TO USE IT WITHIN NAIL SERVICES

OPI’s spring 2024 colour collection, OPI Your Way, is a beautiful palette of crème and sheer shades with pearl and glitter finishes. The hues can be remixed as you desire, but it is important to remember the colour theory rules when doing so, in order to create stunning results.

What is colour theory?

Colour theory is the art and science of using colour. It explains how humans perceive colour, and how shades mix, match and contrast with one another.

The colour wheel is the basis for colour theory. If you’ve ever taken an art class, you’ve probably seen one. The colour wheel is broken up into three groups of colours:

Primary colours: Red, blue and yellow. These are the colours that create all other colours. You cannot create these by mixing any of the other colours together.

Secondary colours: Violet, green and orange. You create these by mixing two primary colours together. For example, when you mix yellow and blue, you create green. Tertiary colours: Red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, yellow-orange and red-orange.

These colours are created by mixing one primary colour with a secondary colour. For example, if you mix red (a primary colour) with violet (a secondary colour), you get red-violet (a tertiary colour).

Layering colours

For best results, layer colours that are beside each other on the colour wheel. If you layer colours opposite each other, you will get an unclear colour, such as a brown/grey or nude shade. When layering nail colours, start with the shade with the strongest pigment at the bottom, such as one with a crème finish, then add a less pigmented colour over the top: one with a sheer, glaze, jelly or glitter finish.

Let’s put colour theory into practice with the OPI Your Way collection…

Apricot princess Apply two coats of Apricot AF, and finish with one coat of Princesses Rule! These colours are close to each other on the wheel, so complement each other well.

Buttafly Cookie Apply two coats of Buttafly, then one coat of Suga Cookie. These colours are opposite each other, so you can see that the mix has created a shimmery nude.

Midnight Snatch’d Apply two coats of Midnight Mantra, followed by a coat of Snatch’d Sliver. Adding a glazed or glitter finish over a dark colour can offer depth and dimension to a nail design.

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STEP-BY-STEP

I’ve used shades from the OPI Your Way collection with layering and blending techniques to create a fun nail design for spring.

Step 1: Following nail prep, apply two coats of OPI GelColor in Alpine Snow, curing after each coat.

Step 2: Randomly paint dots of OPI GelColor shades: Self Made, Verified, Buttafly, Apricot AF and Without A Pout onto the nail. Do not cure.

Step 3: Using a dry oval gel brush, gently swipe down the nail to blend the colours together, creating a tie-dye effect. Cure.

Step 4: Apply a coat of OPI GelColor in Glazed ‘N’ Amused onto the nail. Cure.

Step 5: Apply OPI GelColor Stay Shiny Top Coat and cure to finish.