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Always love looking at your manis, so creative and fun!Here's a recent gradient mani. I experimented with doing the gradient from dark in the middle out to two lighter tones - one bright and one murky. I'm not sure that visually it's quite as effective as a one-direction gradient along the length of the nail, as there just isn't very much room for five colours, especially when they're effectively being used to create two gradients! But it was interesting to see the impact of the second aspect of the experiment - mixing shimmers with creams. It seems to work fairly well, and it would be neat to try with a single gradient.
The gradient from cuticle is Cult Nails Grunge, Zoya Cassedy, Hunter, and Rikki, and then an unlabeled Kozmic Colours with 40 stamped in the glass. The middle nail is Zoya Noot, and Cult Nails In A Trance is on the ring finger nail.
Incidentally, Grunge, Noot, and In A Trance make a fantastic camo colour combination too! (pre clean-up)
Gorgeous! I really need to get my stamp plates out more often. I'm too lazy, lol.Yay! I'm so glad I found this section of the site!!! I just really got into nail stamping and am sooo addicted!!! I just ordered a couple of MoYou London plates and keep checking the mail box waiting for them to show up! Anyway, here's some past nail stamping i've done!
I love stamping
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Those are really fun!
Beautiful nails!Yay! I'm so glad I found this section of the site!!! I just really got into nail stamping and am sooo addicted!!! I just ordered a couple of MoYou London plates and keep checking the mail box waiting for them to show up! Anyway, here's some past nail stamping i've done!
Cant wait to see what you do it!
Thats adorable!Decided to play with my new stamping plates! This is in honor of my kitty Shadow!
So beautiful, love the flowers and the dots combo.I'm excited about the results with this nail art experiment. The technique used is simple: dotting! That's it. I was tempted to stop at the blue dots because I liked it there. Then I did the red and navy dots, aka flowers, and I'm happy with that too. Now I'm considering navy stripes, but am not sure. And before adding stripes, I was also thinking of adding more flowers in a bright coral colour. There are just so many options for any mani.
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eta: Yes, this mani is for the Inspirations Challenge too, so I'll post it there when it's time.
Thanks for posting these pics, I really want to try caviar nails and I was curious about the wear on them.Here is what happened to my Ciaté Lemon Fizz caviar from just a couple of days of regular wear. I didn't top the caviar with top coat for fear the coat would dissolve the colour on the caviar, as I've seen happen for other people; but the colour wore off anyway. You can better see the residual blue showing on the underside of some of the balls, but most of them are now colourless wherever they were exposed to soap, water, and minor abrasion. Before and after:
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Glad to share! I look forward to seeing yours.
/emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> If I do them again, I'll likely use Zoya basecoat again, as it worked well to keep the caviar in place; but I'll also consider using a top coat that can be gently applied with a fully loaded brush to keep the colour on them from wearing off.
