I'm calling these my Summer Evening nails. glittery purple fading out into teal, with one pitch-black starry accent nail in each hand. I just keep staring at them, they're somehow so soothing to see.
I'm indecisive as fuck so I redid mine. Now I have... PRINCESS NAILS, MOTHERFUCKERS. They look a lot cooler IRL, the sparkles don't photograph super well. :(
Redid my nails! SS cannot go more than a couple of days without repainting nails. It is a terrible curse. Spoiler: again, SS apologises for finger-biting habit And bonus shot of Ol' Righty before I took the glue off: Spoiler: seriously, put glue around your nails. it makes cleanup so easy.
Spoiler Eventually I will buy a set of nail art brushes but until then I will just float along using the default ones and ending up with terrible wobbly lines. For shame, SS.
Various finger injuries healed, so it was time for a new coat of paint. Sinful Colors, "Let's Meet" with two coats of "24 Karat" on top. Plus detail shot, because sparkle: Honestly was not too pleased with this brand-- the Let's Meet needed five or six coats to show as a solid color instead of a streaky, watery mess, and the 24 Karat was sold as a normal metallic polish but is actually just glitter suspended in a clear gel. (Then again, I only tried two coats of the 24K before giving up, and I wasn't expecting LM to need so much to look solid. May need to re-experiment later.) Kind of disappointed, because I have three or four other bottles of Sinful Colors to try out, and most of them are metallics that look similar in-bottle to the 24 Karat. =/
Does anyone here have problems with their nails sort of...delaminating after using polish? Mine tend to begin disconnecting from the nail bed.
Do you mean the nail polish coming off all in one sheet? Yeah, mine do that too. But then again I tend to pick at it if I need something to fidget with.
The actual fingernails coming away from the nail bed. It happens after several weeks of nail polish use and is only noticeable after I take the polish off. If I quit using polish they grow back out and reattach as they go. I am so jealous of everyone's sparkly nails.
Oh, wow, no, that... doesn't sound good at all. A bit of googling brings up that continued trauma (be it water expansion/contraction, chemical use (acetone and nail polish!), infection, or actual physical injury) can weaken the attachment between nail and nail bed and cause the nail to start peeling up like you describe. Pretty much just trim away the peeled-up parts as much as possible, give your nails time to breathe until they heal, and wait a while between manicures to keep it from happening again. (Google "onycholysis" for more info or a more medical description, but beware of icky photos if you go for an image search.)
I don't have any decent pics yet, and I kinda need to redo them, but I recently got a matte pearlescent top coat and am playing with using it over pastel colors (at the moment I'm wearing it over a light orchid-ish purple). It looks so hecking cool, holy shit!
I love green nail polish so much and nobody understands. So much. Spoiler: SO MUCH I was going to take some pictures of my stash to show y'all but then I accidentally more nail polish so now I am inclined to wait until those arrive. Also I want more green polish, everybody rec me your favourite greens. I will not rest until I own more green polish than other colours put together.
Not sure of your thoughts on iridescent polishes, but I have fallen in love with OPI's Mer-Maid for Each Other. I don't really order online so I have no idea how you'd go about finding a swatch of it, but it's a nice light green that runs towards gold in light and teal/bluish in shadow. (I rambled about it earlier in the thread, but I used it as part of a gradient so the pictures might not be the best example.) I found it for about $3 USD in a Target. This week's adventure was another Sally Hansen: Red Carpet from the Xtreme Wear line. . Honestly it doesn't photograph very well-- it's much darker in real life, and has a bunch of tiny sparkles in it. It does work well, though-- two coats for the nice dark red I wanted, but it was solid (if closer to magenta than crimson) after just one. Nothing fancy because there were cats around while I was painting.
St. Pat's nail because all my green shirts were dirty, plus babby's first attempt at water marbling. I've taken to usually just doing one nail on each hand for Reasons (faster, gives other nails a break from polish and remover, if I try something fancy and fuck it up I only have to redo two nails instead of ten).
After a bit of a break for nail-healing, I return with halfassed volcano nails! Found a pretty red/gold shimmery thing at Walmart a month or so ago, finally got around to testing it. It is not actually as red as I hoped (the swatch was closer to crimson than fuchsia), but it's still pretty, and photographs better than most "actual" reds I've tried. Covergirl Outlast #70 ("Inferno"), plus a crackle coat overtop.
