Mixed tape mani is today's 26 Great Nail Art Ideas theme. At first, I thought about painting a cassette tape on my nails (I was born in the early 80s, so I made a lot of mixed music tapes as a teenager. No MP3 when I was young (well, at least not for us "common people")...). But I admit, I was too lazy for free hand nail art, so I went with the simple aproach of just using differently shaped tapes.
I started with three coats of Kiko 433 (Gothic Purple), a duochrome shimmer polilsh shifting from purple to a dark, murky green. In real life, the polish looks mostly purple, while the pictures show mostly green. You can see the color shift in the bottle, though.
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After the base was completely dry, I added different What's Up Nails vinyls and two coats of Catrice The Big Bling Theory (Million Brilliance LE), a purple textured polish with some hex glitters in it (the glitters look blue in the pictures, but they are purple, too). I skipped the topcoat after removing the vinyls to keep the textured finish.
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I love all the glitter in that purple polish!
ReplyDeleteYes, it really makes the polish special :-)
Deletelove your result!
ReplyDeleteThank you Sara!
DeleteWhat a fun skittle!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you like it, Kristi!
DeleteThat Kiko is dreamy! Wow. It works so well in this mani and I love the glitter too.
ReplyDeleteVicky x
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Thank you Vicky, I'm glad you like it!
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