Many lessons were learned today:

  • Scotch tape can only be separated from partly-dry nail polish with great difficulty
  • Masking tape will not stick reliably to partly-dry nail polish
  • Waiting 2-3 hours between each coat is both annoying and extremely inconvenient, and also not long enough
  • Ballpoint pen ink is very hard to remove from a cuticle while keeping the polish intact

That said, I’m pretty happy with the results even though I don’t think I’d do this regularly :3

    • Shirow@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      vor 1 Tag

      Oh I should do that at some point :3 If I become good enough to do striped nails

  • Brooke (She/Her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    vor 1 Tag

    The secret that helped me when i was doing nail designs (god i wanna paint my nails) is nail art pens, try em! They dry in like 30 seconds and are very easy to work with ❤️

  • AnxiousMiisha@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    vor 1 Tag

    Girl, these are genuinely so pretty, omg! This is your first attempt? Goddamn 😭

    I have to try this sometime, despite the difficulties. Thanks for the great idea! 🩷 💅

  • antianarchist@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    vor 21 Stunden

    Aren’t there UV-resins? This way you can cut down the waiting time. Also try to buy the better masking tape, the cheap ones don’t even stick to walls properly.

  • kakler bitmap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    vor 22 Stunden

    Beautiful job, definitely better than my first attempt at striped nails (in which I also learned all of your listed “lessons” about tape lol). Curious about the ball-ppint pen thing though, I’ve never used a ball-point pen for anything nail-related

    • DaPorkchop_ [they/she/it]@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      vor 21 Stunden

      thanks :3

      i used a flexible tape measure and a pen to draw evenly spaced marker dots on my skin along the base of the nail, which i used as a guide for where to place the tape (i initially tried to eyeball it, but maintaining a consistent spacing while also keeping the tape lines parallel proved too difficult after the first line). a little bit of pen overshot onto the cuticle and then got permanently sealed under a very generous layer of top coat, you can kinda see it in the photo if you zoom in.

  • 𝙈𝙞𝙖@quokk.auEnglish
    2·
    vor 22 Stunden

    I’ve not been brave enough to try anything complicated like that, but you did a great job on it!