Hello! My camera has been with a friend all week and hence I can't upload any nice macro shots of my nails.
Here are some screenshots of my Instagram hahaha so at least you know I've been painting (though admittedly, not as often as I would like to be). Well, the holidays seriously flew past.
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China Glaze - Unpredictable
Instant gradient nails for me! Love duochromes and absolutely love China Glaze for creating their Bohemian line of duochrome polishes!!! <3 They turn out slightly streaky (as do all metallic frost-finish polishes) so remember to paint as straight as possible right down the length of the nail, so at least the streaks are neat and straight! I think you should be able to see them in the image above. Dry time is alright, I gave myself a good hour before topcoat (I feared Seche frosting at the tips) and even so, only a very very thin layer of Seche. It would help if you put on a movie or TV show during dry time. Loved this look so much. Good wear too. So much love for CG right now.
OPI - Dulce de Leche
OPI - Alpine Snow
You HAVE to know how difficult it is to DIY a Classic French. Yeah there are those French tip sticker guides that help you create that perfect straight-as-an-arrow line. Unfortunately, my manicare brand french tip guides adhered too much to my polish, despite my Dulce de Leche base being left to dry for a good 20 minutes - the stickers were just too damn sticky. They ended up ripping out part of my polish. Hence you can see some imprefect straight lines and other wonky ones I just free-handed on the rest of the nails I didn't use the sticker guides on. Well I won't ever DIY the Classic French ever again. I'll probably create glitter French tips or something, but I'll leave the Classic to the professionals :-) The skills required to create the perfect Classic French is worth your $$$$$.
Cult Nails - Clairvoyant
OPI - OPI Ink (Used as a base for Clairvoyant for pigmentation. More on the look here.)
OPI - Just Spotted The Lizard (Chevron outline)
Chevron nails! I LOVE CHEVRON. I once did a Chevron-tip design before with OPI's Jade Is The New Black, a plain black creme and OPI's Designer de Better! as the Chevron outline. It made me look like I was a very patriotic Rafflesian. This design shown here was meant to be more of a Chevron half-moon instead of the tip, but I obviously painted the purple V's too far out from my cuticles. What to do... the Clairvoyant was too pretty! Had to show more of its flakie beauty, yes? To create the V lines, I used 3M Magic Tape. Before cutting them and using strips to create the clean V shapes, I pasted the tape pieces all over my skin so the strips wouldn't be overwhelmingly sticky, unlike those nasty manicare strips! By the way I created the V outline with Just Spotted The Lizard as an afterthought, because my initial idea of the purple and black combination still lacked that... little extra. So I free-handed the duochrome V's with a toothpick. Not too shabby, eh? Also, I'd chosen a duochrome so it would add that extra flashiness to a generally subtle manicure. What do you think of it? :-)
Well so I'm painting my nails again tomorrow! So excited. What colour should I use? :-)
x, Ish
