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It's three coats of colour for a total of five coats. Any more than that usually peel for me.
I would try that over a black undie!
Some more color-knowledgeable nail friends of mine also say try it over a dark blue or purple, depending on the shimmer and how it behaves - or maybe a blue leaning grey!
Do you have any swatch sticks or silicone mats you could swatch on, to see how it goes? Or even on paper, if needs must!
This is actually the right answer. The way most “paints“ work is they absorb all of The colors of light except the one you see.
These “color flopping pigments” work differently. They modify a certain wavelength of light into a different wave length of light in a way that creates this cool pearlescent appearance that you like.
The problem is the light passes through the coating and reflects off of your nail, which interferes with the cool look you’re going for. You need the black undercoat to absorb the light that passes through so the only light reflected for you to see is the cool effect you you’re going for.
I was browsing All, I have zero experience with nail polish but, my experience with other types of paint tells me to try it with some darker colour under this one.
My guess is that this to get an affect on top other colours.
Thank you! I'll try that, but I was worried it'd dull out that purple hue.
you'll need a darker colour under the shiny top coat to get that look. I got the same (and some other shiny colours) and I use grey, darker red or blue under the shiny coat - it creates beautiful shiny colours. I mostly go for grey nowadays because I love the sparkling - but for u blue seems to be the correct colour to get close to the look from the bottle
I'll try that, thank you! Thing is, this isn't supposed to be a top coat, so I'm somewhat disappointed. Also, that means that I'll have to use just one layer of it, since dark polish will require two layers, and I always use base and top, and more than five layers always peel for me.
Edit: btw, hadn't considered gray, thanks for the idea. I'll try navy first though, maybe even purple.
ya, I know as a standalone nail polish it's nothing like in the bottle (same with the other shiny essie ones)🥲 I kinda like this freedom now because I get to create my own colour-shine-mixtures. Oh and I recently added the new gel-like top coat from essie on top of these and it looked supercool. I always go with base coat, colour, shiny and top coat - sometimes two shiny layers if I wanna sparkle extraordinary 😄
I showed this to my girlfriend, she recommended a similar color of eye shadow brushed on, with a clear coat on top, if you have one.
That is so clever, thank you and thank her for me! I've used eye shadow on my lips, but never on my nails.
Happy to help :) her creativity never ceases to impress me.
When I've gotten pedicures (always with sparkles), they always put down a base coat when my chosen color looks like that.
You might ask in a tabletop miniatures painting community! Plastic probably takes paint similarly to keratin.