Hi guys! It's Thursday (already!), which means it's time for another letter in the A-Z of Polish. This week we're up to R, and today I've picked two polishes - Color Club - Raspberry Rush, and Barry M - Red Black.......
So, I started by doing a gradient with Raspberry Rush, Red Black, and Sinful Colors - Black on Black. However, the gradient did not go well at all. I did these last night while I was really tired, and it got bits of sponge stuck to it where I was going over it whilst it was still very sticky. I also went to bed without cleaning the gradient up last night, and woke up to find I had massive shrinkage in a couple of random places. I nearly scrapped it then and there, but in the end I decided to stamp over it anyway and see if it was savable.
I used Barry M - Gold Foil and MoYou Pro XL 10. Once the stamping was dry, I top coated with a pretty thick coat of HKGirl to try and smooth out the *spongeturds* (thanks to Alicia of Fixin' to Faff for that awesome word) I did some careful clean up once it had set a little bit, and all in all, I don't think it turned out too badly. You can see a few of the spongeturds in the macro shot, but in real life they weren't visible.
I also want to apologise for the weirdness of my skin in these photos - my camera was not pleased with this neon, so I had to do a bit of colour correcting. They're still not quite right though, so if you're thinking of getting that Color Club yourself, please look at some proper swatches first :p
So, that's it from me today. I'm off work for the next few days, so hopefully I'll have a few more posts for you over the next week or so. In the meantime, don't forget to check out the rest of the R mani's on the hub page,
here. :D
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I love the gradient, so vampy! And I hate it when bits of sponge stick to my nails, usually happens when it is not wet enough, so try to remember and wet the sponge with water first.
ReplyDeleteI love this manicure! the gradients is perfect!
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