First I painted funky stripes on my ring finger and thumb. That was a gloopy kind of mess all in itself since those colors (except for purple) are polishes with striper brushes and are really thin polishes and STAIN EVERYTHING. Then I painted the other fingers one of each of the colors (again, kind of gloopy due to the thin polish). I covered them all in Seche Vite and a coat of glow polish. Here's how that turned out:
This was to be one of two-ish steps to this manicure which actually took almost two hours to complete with striping, layers, and drying time. My original intention was to stamp over them in black with star-cut outs so that the colors from underneath would show through as glow-in-the-dark multi-colored stars. Well that didn't work out at all. Turns out the black I used, my current favorite-Sally Hansen X-treme Wear Black Out, isn't the best for stamping. So the stars (or rather, star outlines) were faded and more a see through gray instead of an opaque black,so the stripes and bright colors were still visible underneath. Also, the layers under the Seche Vite on the orange pointer finger weren't completely dry, so as I stamped I got this nauseating orange polish bubble at the edge of the nail.Ugh.
I then decided to paint over the entire thing except for the ones that came out the darkest and the polish bubble which I removed completely before polishing black, as well as partially paint the middle finger on the left hand to keep the stars that came out the best. Results:
Meh!
The end result was ok, but if this had been the idea from the beginning I would have saved myself a lot of time and hassle. Oh, did I mention I hadn't even started on the other hand?!
Yeah... the biggest, messiest, most complicated simple manicure EVER.
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