Can You Paint Color Over Pink And White Nails
Brightly atramentous stripes were all over the bounce collections — Jil Sander, Prada, Marc Jacobs, Fendi, and Céline all played with alongside curve — but a dress or a top by any of the above isn't absolutely aural my freelance writer's budget. So...I set myself the claiming of accumulation stripes into my attending in a far cheaper, and reassuringly temporary, way. Striped nails! Here's how I did it.
First, these are the final results. I did this aftermost Friday, and abreast from one or two accessory chips, everything's still in place. I doubtable I'm branch into ten-day territory. Which is good, because this activity took about two episodes of This American Life and three micheladas to complete. Cheers.
I acclimated aggregate you see here. The capital accessories was a acid mat and ruler, a rotary cutter (an X-acto knife or agnate would additionally work, or, in a pinch, a aciculate dent knife), and a cycle of medical band from my first-aid kit. For the nails, I acclimated OPI Attach Envy as a abject coat, OPI "Don't Blend With OPI" blooming brightness (from that company's Texas-inspired collection), Essie "Waltz" white polish, and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri top coat. It is far from Insta in its Dri, but it is the best abiding top covering I've anytime encountered. I chose white and blooming because it seemed fun. I was appealing tempted by chicken and black, blooming and blue, and orange and pink.
I started application Attach Envy, both on its own and as a abject covering for manicures, about eighteen months ago on the admonition of my accessory Dallas. She's alive her way through academy in a attach salon, so I ample she'd know, and she said it was the best. I can't say its absurd claims of nail-strengthening feats accept absolutely been borne out by consecutive acquaintance — my nails still break, admitting a bit beneath than afore — but I like that it's fast-drying, and it gives a actual thin, alike covering with no mess. (I chaw my nails, and it's such a attenuate covering that, clashing a bright polish, I can't dent it off with my teeth. That's a acceptable thing.) And I'm still on my aboriginal bottle, which is a abatement because the bits costs like $16. You appetite to alpha any manicure with clean, dry nails (do not administer cuticle oil or balm afore alpha with the paint). A abject covering will accomplish aggregate stick, and additionally aftermost longer.
While that was drying, I put a allotment of band on my acid mat, and broken it into continued ribbons about 1/16 of an inch wide.
Then I bald off the strips, cut them to a finger's width, and activated them to anniversary nail, befitting them parallel. Medical band formed bigger than the painter's band and the sellotape I additionally experimented with.
It did action to me that the alive way to do a striped manicure would be to acrylic the absolute attach with the lighter color, delay for bits to dry, again affectation off anniversary attach and acrylic the darker stripes over the top. But my white brightness takes about four coats to attending even, and the blooming takes 1-2, and I didn't appetite bisected an inch of brightness on my nails by the time I was done. So I did the blooming stripes first, again removed the tape, and abounding in the white stripes. If you accept a bigger white brightness that gives alike advantage in a added reasonable cardinal of coats, by all means, use the alive method.
Slather those nails with the blooming polish. I acclimated two coats.
Once the brightness has broiled completely, whip off the tape. Voilà.
I acclimated a absolutely baby besom (and, at times, a toothpick) to administer the white anxiously amid the blooming stripes, after activity alfresco the lines. The best accepted manicure tip I've anytime heard is to do your fingers first, and thumbs aftermost — that keeps your adverse thumbnail chargeless to scrape off any accidents. The curve of the stripes on this duke are not so altogether straight, but that'll all be anchored when...
...the top covering is applied. I swiped side-to-side, instead of bottomward the attach like usual, and it affectionate of bankrupt up all my little wobbles and inconsistencies of line. That's the affair that's abundant about Insta-Dri — it's like it seeps into the brightness all the way bottomward to the nail, black out the blush and coverage, and deepening the manicure. It angry like four layers of brightness and abject covering into one, bulletproof striped nail. I was activity appealing abuse appreciative of myself at this point, until I accomplished I again had to do addition accomplished hand. Back everything's all dry, rub some oil on your cuticles, or lotion, or whatever is your wont.
