Faded nail designs are all the new rave and with so many options there’s something for everyone! As the nail art industry continues to innovate, you’ll find there are plenty of intriguing faded nail ...

Instead of the sharp, sculpted line of the classic French, this look features a gradient between the tip and the base. The French manicure is the perfect choice for a classic, wintery look. But if you ...

In Adobe Illustrator, if you want to make one object or group gradually fade to reveal the object underneath, you can use a fade mask. Through the use of the "Transparent" and "Gradient" panels, you ...

Sitting quietly in the Tools panel of the popular image editors Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Pixelmator, is the Gradient tool, a wonderfully useful painting tool that lets you create a ...

Adobe Photoshop CS5 supports the use of layers which enable you to apply effects such as fading to your images. Fading lowers the opacity of the layer, enabling you to blend your image with the ...

I think we can all agree that a fresh manicure has the power to turn your entire week around. You might be having a busy/sad/anxious week, but then you look down at your nails and are reminded that ...

Jazz is amorphous, shifting and changing through the course of a song, so Saucony‘s Jazz has taken that free-flowing, improvisational nature to heart with two new “Fade” releases. Centered around bold ...

Kara Jillian Brown is the beauty editor of InStyle. She began her career at Well+Good, where she spent five years evolving from editorial intern to news writer to beauty writer. She earned a ...