Love this colour and formula! How many coats does everyone normally like for jelly polishes?

About a month ago, I got contact dermatitis from a gel-x set I did myself. I didn’t have the proper tools to remove the set, so I ended up ripping them off in a panic 🫣 as you can imagine, my nails were incredibly damaged, but ever since I’ve been taking care of my natural nails, applying the Sally Hansen Hard as Nails treatment and oiling them several times a day. Normally my nails never grow, and when I do see some growth they chip off! This is probably the longest nails I’ve had in a very, very long time!

This is two coats of Mooncat - Serpents of Eden 💚 Such a stunner, with the most beautiful shifts.

I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this, but I've wanted to reserve some of my painting time for skittle manis. I started out doing skittles because, if you know me it will be no surprise to you that I couldn't pick just one color or polish...so why not all!? Time for Sunday Skittles!

Today is international Asexuality Day. "Ace" is a spectrum that also falls under the LGBTQ umbrella. Being Ace is valid and beautiful. I originally had a different skittle on, and when I saw a horrible tweet from our intetnational billionaire queen of petty hate JKRowling about Asexuality day, I immediately shelved it and started a new one. As I did with my pride flag collection last June, here's some info about Asexuality.

Asexuality is a sexual orientation where the person does not experience sexual attraction to anyone regardless of gender. It's also an umbrella term that can cover a whole spectrum including demisexual, gray-asexual, and others. While it differs from being Aromantic, many are AroAce which is a combo of both.

🖤Black represents asexuality 🩶Gray represents gray-asexuality and demisexuality 🤍White represents partners and allies 💜 Purple represents community

💪 @findingfeatherslacquer ... Balanced Bond Base Coat

🖤 @holotaco ... "Black Holo Wish"

🩶 @holotaco ... "Pearl Grey"

🤍 @colorclubnaillacquer ... "French Tip"

💜 @holotaco ... "Crytals Mommy"

💪 @glistenandglow1 Quick Dry Top Coat 🐐

Wondering if I'm the only one who does this. As my mani ages throughout the week I get tired of it as is, but rather than replace the whole mani I tend to add onto each nail.

So a few days ago I posted my plain crème mani (see final slide). As the week went along I got a chip here and there and started to add a topcoat or a stamp to cover up/freshen. By the end of the mani I don't have any original nails.

Am I lazy or do yall do this too?

*note left thumb (4th slide) went through two edits; first a stamp and then a shimmer (thanks ILNP for completely transforming every single color I put your shimmers over!)

(ignore the wet look, cuticles were freshly oiled 🫶)

Products are: L.A Colors Nail Treatment Base/Topcoat, ColorVibe in White Out (for the dots), and L.A Colors Sheer Jelly in Heat Wave. I've never used a jelly before and can't seem to do my nails solid colors anymore so I decided to do a layered dot pattern and I kinda love it 😁

Gel overlay on natural nails

Especially all the pretty sparkles make me weak all the time! ✨

There was a recent post here that compared a few red magnetic polishes in the velvet style. So I decided to do a comparison in the cat eye style!

Here’s what’s being shown in this video clip:

Pinky and middle fingers:

• ILNP: Poison (2 coats unmagnetized; 1 coat magnetized for 1 minute)

Ring and index fingers:

• Emily de Molly: Fiery Attraction (2 coats magnetized; 1 coat magnetized for 1 minute)

Thumb:

• Left side: Poison (applied as described above)

• Right side: Fiery Attraction (applied as described above)

All fingers:

• ORLY: Bonder Base Coat

• DRK: Magic Effect (magnetized for 1 minute)

• Glisten & Glow: Quick Dry Top Coat (magnetized for 1 minute)

I hope that this comparison is helpful, especially for those of you whose skin tone is similar to mine. Poison definitely leans more orange-red, whereas I would describe Fiery Attraction as a true red.

I wasn’t sure what I would think of wearing these together as a skittle, but I like it! I think that this combination actually helps to give even more depth to both polishes, due to how they bring out different pops of color from within each other.

So I had initially put on this blue-gray jelly shimmer for polish bingo's "polish I might not like" square because I hated how it looked in the bottle and... surprise? I actually love it?

So I stripped off the other polish I hated and applied The Salty Mermaid for a silver and gold mani that I adore!

🪨 UNT Ready For Takeoff

🐝 Bee's Knees Lacquer "Redacted Mystery Overpour" (I'd love to know what it actually is!) and "The Salty Mermaid"

☁️ KB Shimmer "Clearly On Top"

Base coat is Sally Hansen Color Therapy. Red hand is Sweet Cheeks by Sinful Colors topped with Hall of Mirrors by Mooncat. Blue hand is Blue Valentine by Death Valley Nails topped with Hall of Mirrors.

Everything topped with Glossy Taco by Holo Taco

What are all of the types of pigments, effects, etc. that won't or might not last indefinitely? I know many polishes can be restored decades later and be fine. But what are the ones that can't?

So far I know thermals will eventually stop reacting, and that some metallics will oxidize. I got a hint from a recent post that neons maybe fade or change? What about solar and GITD? Also I recently learned that holo magnetics will lose their holo-ness, or something? Anything else on the list?

(Also bonus points if you can post examples of holo magnetics, because that sounds amazing... 🤩)

This is bkl enemies to lovers. I tried the new magnet technique there you lay a long magnet (bar shaped?) diagonally on top of the horseshoe magnet. You get the two effects in one.

I am actually floored. These polishes are insanely gorgeous! The duochrome, the sheerness… I love it all.

Excuse the slight messiness and my very pink hand, I just finished these and had to capture the magic. Arcana Laquer's The Magician, three coats, magnetized cat eye on the thumb, velvet on the index and pinky, and the new combo method of bar+horseshoe middle and ring. No basecoat, Essie speed-setter top coat. I magnetized every layer, top coat layer for 4 minutes each nail.

I had high expectations based on their swatches and damn does it deliver!! The magnetic didn't seem to move quite as quickly as my ILNPs (sandbar and light wave) but the shimmer/jelly/holo effect is so stunning.

turning the video into a gif makes it look less shifty but still cute 🍀

mooncat getting even nail primer (1 coat) and mooncat speed demon top coat (1 coat) on all nails

pinkie - mooncat earth to gaia (2 coats) ring - cirque spoonful of sugar (3 coats) middle - cirque hygge (3 coats) pointer - cirque succulent garden (2 coats) thumb - mooncat memento mori (3 coats)

edit - posting again cause idk why the first photos uploaded with horrible resolution

So I bought a Bisley in Bisley green. You’ll notice the second one in the background—Shout out to their customer service. The first one arrived with the front, bottom right corner bent. Sent photos, explained that I forked out more money for a Bisley over a Helmer because I wanted to avoid this exact thing. They basically said “Say less.” and sent another out immediately. I’m impressed with their customer service. As for the drawers themselves, they are quite smooth and I’m thrilled with the look of the cabinet itself. Now I just gotta either convert stickers to magnets or I’m about to be in a magnet buying frenzy.😅 Other people with Bisley drawers/cabinets, how do you like them?

Oh! And shout out to Olivemutt, too, because I saw her review on hers a while back and knew—then—that I would eventually pick one up. Rewarded myself with one for “becoming a ‘real’ swatcher”.🫣🤣 Gotta have somewhere to put the incoming polish. My personal purchased polish stash is already maxed out on space.😅

(And for anyone who cares—on my nails is Doomloop Two Sizes Too Small, I’ll post about it and a few others, soon.🤗😁🥰)

Trying out the new magnet technique (horseshoe + neodymium mag). Lets see how it holds up!

Nailtiques formula 2 / Sinful colors Black on Black / Bees Knees Lacquer Blade of the Frontiers (x2) / DRK Magic Effect Topcoat / Essie Gel Setter