31 day challenge - rainbow

Rainbow nails! I LOVE this look. A rainbow nail foil from Born Pretty over Ulta3's Glamourpuss, which is one of my favourite silver polishes. I used a mix of PVA glue and water as a glue for the foil, which I let dry to clear before applying the foil. I worked fairly well, although I really should grab some actual foil glue at some point. I topped with Picture Polish's glitter base coat/foil top coat combo and the foil stayed beautifully shiny. I top coated with my usual quick dry over the Picture Polish and it still looked great. Wore well for the one day I had before the challenge moved on.

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31 Day Challenge - metallic

I knew I wanted to do foils for today, and I decided to challenge myself and do some foil stamping! So I painted my nails gold, got my purple foil out, stamped my nails aaaand - nothing. It would not transfer. :'( 

I tried changing stamping polish, making a decal, nothing. And then I changed to a silver foil and bam, instant success. Lesson learned: purple foil from kmart should be avoided. (I think I got my silver foil from eBay.)

After all that, it was a pretty straightforward process. I painted my nails navy with Kester Black's Periwinkle, stamped a chevron design on using silver konad polish, and pressed the nail foil onto the still-damp stamping design to transfer it. Really pleased with how it turned out in the end!

This silver foil has holographic highlights - here's an out of focus shot to show it off!

And here you can see the foil after the pattern has transferred.

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