Base of Bluebird’s quick-drying Light Matter
Sponged over with a purple, light blue, and lime green trio from ORLY
Stamped with SheModern’s Black Sticky Stamping Polish and Maniology’s Retro Lines M521

One of my first times using the sticky stamping polish - love it! I just need to be more because it really, really stays sticky longer 😂

I’m OBSESSED with this, I can’t believe it took me so long to try this technique. Has anyone done this with polishes of different finishes? I was too scared for my first but I’d love to see your manis with mixed finishes!

Here I’m using two polishes from Jen & Berries: Festival of Fragrance (PPU 6/22) and Purple Push-Up. Both were received as gifted pr at time of release, and purple push up is still available!

First time trying this polish from OPI as a full mani and am loving this pink leaning red. I own a few reds from OPI and they're usually a crelly formula. This polish is a creme and has great coverage. It's opaque in just one coat but I like to do a second coat to help with longevity. OPI makes amazing red polishes and Dutch Tulips is no exception.

Cracked Polish Ridge Filler (2 coats)

OPI Dutch Tulips (2 coats)

Essie Stay Longer Top Coat

are these crooked or am I just deluding myself? been staring at them too long. maybe my fingers are actually crooked. Also I can’t do the crazy thumb bend yall do

Wearing a thin coat of Mooncat Getting Even Nail Primer, 2 coats of Sunshine Jelly from Cirque Colors, and the Dazzle Dry topcoat. (Plz ignore some of the bumps, I had a little bit of shrinkage from the topcoat )

Absolutely adoring this color for summer! I know yellows can be divisive and not for everyone, but this is bringing me so much joy!

From Hella Handmade Creations.

Love this aqua blue holo magnetic!

Wearing 3 coats of “Storm Wielder” from Clionadh Cosmetics
🧲 - glass head spinner from Etsy - magnetized third coat and top coat for about 1 minute

Top coat - mooncat

I have Glitch Lacquers 'Carnations in Bloom' solar polish. It transitions from a milky white to a fuchsia colour in sunlight. It looks incredible in the bottle and shifts really fast in the sun, but for some reason these carnations don't feel like blooming on me.

First picture is my mani I did 3 days ago. I used Essie's Strong Start base coat and Essie's Speed Setter top coat. Then I swatched CiB, left to right is the control with no top coat, the middle with Essie's Gel Setter, then Speed Setter on the right. These photos are taken right after I topcoated the two essies.

Second pic I had taken off the nail polish on my index, middle, and ring finger and re-painted in the same test way. Index is control, middle is gel setter, ring is speed setter. This was again right after I topcoated. You can see my little pinky trying to cat some pink but that's from the orange iridescent flakes in the polish. My thumb looking bare as the day she was born.

Third pic is after I let the top coats dry for a couple hours. Already these carnations are withering.

Final pic is just showing the mani on my left hand (and my croc). I took the final pic and the third pic in the same moment. No carnations just a flakie graveyard.

So TLDR why is my body sucking the life out of this lacquer? Help?

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PRODUCTS USED

💋 Cracked Polish

Ridge Filling Base Coat

Quick Dry Top Coat

🪩 Holo Taco

Rage Bait 🔥 🧊

🌸 Emily De Molly

When the Sun Leaves

🌎 Starrily

Jupiter 🧲

🐝 Bee's Knees Lacquer

Sunbird

The Water Remembers 🧲

🎩 Fancy Gloss

Orange Cheesecake 🔥 🧊

🌊 ELBE Nails

Haruka And Michiru's Love

Cosmic Sailor Dream 🧲

🧛 Cuticula

Wake Me Up Inside 🧲

🐈‍⬛ Mooncat

La Petit Mort 🧲

I asked my husband and my boyfriend to pick out a theme for my manicure. Brian picked Tropical Sunset and Nathan picked Midnight Waters. I think the colors they picked were PERFECT and made for a magical Tropical Midnight manicure.

Picked up 3 new Orly polishes with their $5 sale, and this is the first one I tried, Citrus Got Real. Also picked up Blue Tango and Rage, so will be trying those out soon.

Really not sure how I feel about this nail art, I couldn't get the vision out of my head and now that it's on my nails I'm... not sure 😂 I love the colors though, using Color Club "Lily in Paris" and Jen & Berries "Resistance Was Futile" (an all-timer in my collection), maybe I'll try something else with them

Base Coats: Olive and June Peel Off Base Coat x1, Holo Taco Original Smoothing Base x1

Color: Holo Taco Blue Rizzler x3

Topper: Holo Taco Everything Taco x1

Top Coats: Sally Hansen Insta Dri (red bottle) x1, Holo Taco Glossy Taco x2

I love this color and as always Holo Taco doesn't disappoint! While the color is very pretty on its own and has the crushed holo in it, the smattering of holo glitter and flakies in Everything Taco is the icing on the cake!

This and ILNP are my favorite brands to wear.

I hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend!

Sally Hansen Miracle Gel in Red Eye

Any tips for traveling with nail polish?

Every time I travel across the mountains to visit my sister, my lotion and gel deodorant leak. I want to take nail polish with me this time. Any tips for traveling with nail polish and avoiding leaks? I always double bag liquids.

Starting elevation ~230 feet

Summit ~ 4,200 feet

Thank you!

Sold a bunch of polishes and had to resist the urge to make another haul. So I made my own "dopamine" with Sally hanson insta dry "magenta pulse" (3 coats) + 2 coats of ilnp "flower child" (2 coats) + seche vite.

Attempt in comments.

Birthday nails inspired by all the smoke from the Canada wild fires 🔥 😶‍🌫️ 🔥 (Pics of the process at the end!)

And I don’t mean the obscenity on the manicure