Choi's nails

If we can just forget the image for a second and look at home intense the base is. I don't wear oranges polish so often but this one is a good one. It's more of a red fiery orange but the shimmer and application was perfect and so clean ups went smooth too. I think I can show off a little and be like 'look at my clean cuticle line ^^'




The base is pretty fierce but now I look back I think it looked best without the stamping. Nevertheless they both look fine and I'm happy with it.

What do you think? With or without the stamping? What would you have done to this base?

I really don't see how easy she made this. Well, it is but I did have to go through a bit of trial and error before things started to look similar to the water marble effect. Either I've dug my toothpick a bit too hard that it has left a little gap, things are too well mixed that they look like a hot mess or I'll peel the polish off before it's fully dried destroying the whole thing.


So the idea is painting a base colour on some plastic wrap, I chose a clear pocket folder and painted one to two layers of Jessica's Velvet & pearls which is a black creme as the base. With Ciate's Ivory queen, an ivory with gold shimmers and Ciate's Members only which is a sheer nude with gold shimmers I added the polishes randomly onto the black polish whilst it was still wet and started swirling like a mad woman with a toothpick.


Okay, I could say the swirling was the easy part. The peeling, placing and clean up was a pain in the backside! I've seen people use a cuticle trimmer to poke things into place and trim the extra bits down before cleaning up. Even after doing so I still had a lot of work to clean off and with the choice of colour it really didn't make things easier. 

Oops! My thumb is not done.

This is the end result and I'm happy with the way it came out. (You should have seen the other attempts!)

What do you think? What other techniques would you like to see me try?

For the nail stamping I stamped an image from the Bundle monsters BM205 plate with Barry M's Pacific. WOW. Looking at how sheer the polish was when it transferred from the plate to my rubber stamp I really couldn't see how well this was going to go but Pacific turned out to be an amazing stamping polish. I suggest you stamp fanatics to keep this one in mind if you're looking for a blue/green duo chrome that does a good stamping job.



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