A while ago Laurie from Dressed Up Digits did this awesome magnetic gradient manicure. If you're not following her, you definitely should. She has some awesome manicures. A recent favorite: seashells. Fabulous! Anyways, I saw I had 3 unused Icing/Claire's Magnetix polishes in my untried bin and figured this would be a good way to use them.
I started with a layer of the silver and then did a gradient sponge over with the silver, gold and blue. Once I that was dry I put a non-fast dry top coat over it to make it wet again. I had to use Gelous because that was the only non-fast dry clear polish I had haha.
Then I held the magnet over it like usual. All my gradients resembled the one of my middle finger, but I didn't hold the magnet to it fast enough, so less of the contrasting particles were pulled up. I still like it even if it wasn't as smooth as Laurie's :)
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Jen at Jens Painted Tips
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Kim at A Polished Addiction
Kirsten at Geeky Owl
Kristin at Manicured Monkey
Laurie at Dressed Up Digits
Layka at Kawaiinize Your Life
Melissa at The (mis)Adventures of a Wanna Be Martha
Misha at Enigmatic Rambles
Missy at Gnarly Gnails
Nayade at Toxic Vanity
Neivys at Maquiclub Girl
This is such a neat idea. I would have never thought to do a gradient with a magnetic polish. Good idea for MSMD.
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