so when the cupcake nails had run their course (a whole week - not too bad, right?), i waited for the bean to take her nap before pulling out the stuff.
following the directions i'd read in countless tutorials like this one, i taped up my fingertips in an effort to keep the clean-up to a minimum.
i started dropping the bits of nail polish into the dixie cup i'd filled with tap water. the teen and i watched it spread out, just like in the tutorials.
when i dip, you dip, we dip.
um, massive fail. after i took the tape off, i had this hot ass mess.
after i perused the tutorials again, i see where i possibly went wrong. if i'd painted my nails with a light base color, they probably would've turned out a lot better. or included some white polish in the water. oh, well. so i removed that polish and went with another design i'd found on pinterest:
pretty deep post, huh?
Thought I'd report that my gel polish/ultraviolet lamp was a fail as well. Guess the lamp is not strong enough to dry the gel I had to apply another coat of regular polish to get rid of the stickiness. :(
ReplyDeletei read somewhere that Vaseline around your nail bed can help keep nail polish neat. maybe that would work better than tape for next time?
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