Today was the day! Yes, I was excited. I didn't want to do a super funky bright and bold combo, but rather a more muted lol and only on a few nails to test it out.
Enter Essie - Merino Cool (a dusty purple) and Zoya - Amanda.
I gave three fingers two coats of Amanda, a pink beige color. The rest got two coats of the Essie color. When Amanda was dry (haha), I taped off the skin around the nails, got out my medicine cup and a bottle of Victoria's Secret body must, filled the cup with warm water, put about five drops of Essie on the surface, then spritzed it with body spray. Chose a spot and dipped the taped nail (nail side down) into the polish floating on the water, waited for it to dry, swirled a toothpick to get the excess off, pulled the finger out and took off the tape. I did it two more times.
I let them dry and covered with NYC mate top coat (like I often do). The boys were both newly down for naps when I started the process which hadn't taken long at this point...
And as Murphy (think: law) would predict, Collin woke up prematurely and was irate.
So, my almost dry nails all got damaged.
I took a picture anyway, to show my first attempt. Lots of smudges and funny textures. Thanks, baby boy.
This would have looked great on Sunday. I have a shirt these colors I could have worn to church. Maybe I will try it again. We will see.
I think it would have worked better if the cup I used were a bit bigger and the spray must not quite so fine. I might try to just flick drops of diluted rubbing alcohol on it next time and hope for more and smaller holes in the polish.
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