Black and Green French Mani

by Bec 9:39 AM 12 comments

I was sitting around trying to figure out what to do with my nails when I saw the boxes and boxes of glitter that I bought during a sale at a craft store that I intended to use for polish frankening. Problem is, these glitters then to bleed their colour. So they got put in the bottom drawer of my Helmer until I could find a better use for them.

So I decided to see how they held up in a twist on the classic french mani. I started with two coats of Rimmel Black Cab and let it completely dry. Then I put a stripe of base coat on the ends of my nails where I wanted the glitter to go. I held my hand over a tea cup and just poured the glitter onto my nail shaking off the excess and using a dry makeup brush to remove the excess glitter above the polish line. Then I used a really think coat of Seche Vite. I think next time I would start at the tips and cover them with topcoat before coating the rest of the nail. A few loose bits of glitter escaped onto the black part, but luckily not too many. I know for next time.

I meant to finish it off with some black striping tape to make the glitter line to the polish line straight, but....I forgot. I tried before the top coat was applied but I just kept getting glitter stuck to it and then the tape wouldn't stick. So then I was going to apply after the top coat and then apply another layer of top coat as the glitter was still gritty. But I forgot and then just couldn't be bothered. I will tell you that this took forever to get off because I didn't realise that my stocks of polish remover was way down and I didn't have any acetone ones left. :(

Always make sure you have the good stuff on hand when using glitter like this.

So what do you think? Hit or miss? Hot or not?

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