Radiating gloopiness
Inspiration: I found this video helpful for the technique
I really liked the ring finger design of my last mani, so I scrapped the others and tried it out as an accent nail:
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| I love this mani! The silver (Isadora 651) is gorgeous but hard to show off in pictures. |
Quite a few of my fellow redditlaqueristas also had this design as their favorite, so by popular demand and withouth further ado, here's a quick tutorial:
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| Here's my set up. The needle is a regular pin needle in home made fimo clay casing, but you can use a tooth pick or any other dotting tool. If you want, you can tape your finger beforehand for easy clean up. |
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| Put blobs of polish as pictured. I messed up one of my blobs, but it couldn't matter less for this design. |
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| Wait until your polish blob is a gloopy, stringy mess. I only have two hands, so I had to take this picture on the side. |
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| Now go from blob number one via blob number two and out to the sides and back again. Pick up a gloopy string every time you cross one of your blobs, and continue until you like the design. |
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| Add another blob of polish and a rhinestone to your focal point. Here, I experimented a bit more with the pinkie and it came out quite arachnoid. My favourite is still the ring finger as the highly contrasting colours show off even the thinnest lines. |
A few additional things:
- Be careful with the clean up process, as the lines can hang freely in the air between the highest point of your nail and cuticle or skin on the side. Make sure they are attached to the nail if you don't want to risk shifting your whole design. You can easily do that by pressing them very gently down, or "cut" them of with acetone to make them fall down.
- I used an art liner because it is very gloopy in itself, but any polish works if you wait the right amount of time. Experiment!
- This video (same as linked under inspiration, but I don't want you to miss it!) is helpful.
Products used:
Isadora Wonder Nail 651: Silver Sparkles
China Glaze White on White
Depend Art Liner in black
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