If you never heard about her, you should totally check her page. This lady is amazingly inventive, and have some super cool tutorials. No matter how long you do this, there is always someone that will find the way to improve on existing technique, or to invent few of her own... well, Kyong is one of them.
She makes magnetic polish even more magical, and her fluid nail art is so uniquely awesome.
I am not really great with either of those two , but went with magnetic polish route.
In the same time, I wanted a unique look, one that would merge those techniques, without all the mess...
This idea was flying through my head for the while, but I would always chicken out, and do something else...
Here is what I did here.
Had to start with the black base, as most of the magnetic polishes actually perform better over the black - magnetic strip is more prominent, and if we have some magical duochrome shimmer, magic is multiplied.
For this experimental manicure, I decided to go with the straight forward magnetic polishes, one that I will not have any issues with.
Polishes I picked to work with were following: Dance Legend - 06 From Russia With Love (red), Layla - Brown Sugar + Turquoise Wave and Sally Hansen - Silver Elements.
Idea was to make this manicure fluid, without actually doing the fluid nail art.
After base was dry, I started applying the polishes one at the time, nail at the time, applying the magnet in different direction to create different effect with each color. By the time you were done with one color, nails you did first are dry, and magnet will not affect them at all... so I continued applying the colors in random pattern.
When done, I applied water based top coat - I discovered that water based top coat does not interfere with the magnetic polish, it does not re-activate the polish so all stays the way you intended it to be.
Can you imagine my surprise when couple of days after I did this manicure Kyong posted her own very similar look? Woah! Like we were on totally the same wave length. You know how the saying goes - great minds think alike!
In the end, what started as a little experiment, turned to one of my favourite magnetic polish manicure. It surely encouraged me to experiment even more... there is a seedling of idea floating around...
Today is also a very special day. My youngest son is turning 17! So hard to believe that my baby is almost a legal age! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!!!! AND MANY MORE!
Cheers!