Many lessons were learned today:
- Scotch tape can only be separated from partly-dry nail polish with great difficulty
- Masking tape will not stick reliably to partly-dry nail polish
- Waiting 2-3 hours between each coat is both annoying and extremely inconvenient, and also not long enough
- Ballpoint pen ink is very hard to remove from a cuticle while keeping the polish intact
That said, I'm pretty happy with the results even though I don't think I'd do this regularly :3
12 Comments
AnxiousMiisha@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 29d
Girl, these are genuinely so pretty, omg! This is your first attempt? Goddamn 😭
I have to try this sometime, despite the difficulties. Thanks for the great idea! 🩷 💅
brookedSmile@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 29d
The secret that helped me when i was doing nail designs (god i wanna paint my nails) is nail art pens, try em! They dry in like 30 seconds and are very easy to work with ❤️
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 29d
ooh i didn't know those were a thing! definitely gonna give those a shot :3
brookedSmile@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 29d
Yeah! Honestly cant believe you had the patience with regular polish, thats actually incredible lol
florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 29d
Nice!
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 29d
Painting your own nails is hard. For a first attempt, this is a masterpiece. ❤️
sensation@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 29d
This is very well done and I am inspired.
kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
Beautiful job, definitely better than my first attempt at striped nails (in which I also learned all of your listed "lessons" about tape lol). Curious about the ball-ppint pen thing though, I've never used a ball-point pen for anything nail-related
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 29d
thanks :3
i used a flexible tape measure and a pen to draw evenly spaced marker dots on my skin along the base of the nail, which i used as a guide for where to place the tape (i initially tried to eyeball it, but maintaining a consistent spacing while also keeping the tape lines parallel proved too difficult after the first line). a little bit of pen overshot onto the cuticle and then got permanently sealed under a very generous layer of top coat, you can kinda see it in the photo if you zoom in.
Quokka@quokk.au · 2 pts · 29d
I’ve not been brave enough to try anything complicated like that, but you did a great job on it!
antianarchist@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 29d
Aren't there UV-resins? This way you can cut down the waiting time. Also try to buy the better masking tape, the cheap ones don’t even stick to walls properly.
Caitlyynn@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 29d
Those are super pretty o.O