In my quest for empty polish bottles to use for liquid latex I found myself browsing the TKB Trading website. It's full of DIY cosmetics and skin care items from oils to jars to glitter. Specifically, I mean amazing little things to add to shadows to give them that duochrome shift, or 'interference'!
You can find an assortment of their glitters here and the duchromes are here near the end. As you can see, sample sizes range from 1$ to 3$ for a BIG baggie full that should last forever. I ordered quite a few. You can do a wide range of things with this stuff, but I thought I'd show you quickly what exactly it does to polish. There are quite a few shifts and shades you can get as well as some basic duochromes that only reflect one colour in the light. All are gorgeous and all are easy to use and crazy affordable to collect!
I'm using a nude polish, a black polish, a good topcoat, a fluffy shadow brush, and an interference glitter.
- Apply a base coat.
- Paint your nails as desired, I used black on my accent nail, nude on the rest.
- When you polish is dry, apply a thin careful coat of topcoat.
- Before it dries, while it's tacky, fluff on some of the glitter to coat the whole nail.
- Let the first layer of top coat dry, brush off the access glitter (do this or you'll have glitter IN your topcoat bottle) and apply a final layer of topcoat.
- Tidy up if necessary, and to remove the access glitter just wash your hands with a little soap and water!
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| These tweezers are from Sassy Cats Lacquer! |
- Apply the vinyl over dry polish and then top with a thin layer of topcoat.
- Apply the glitter the same way, being very careful not to get it all over.
- Once you remove the mask, wait for the topcoat to dry completely and then carefully dust off the nail. You might even need to rinse, depending on how vigorous your glitter application was!
- Then just topcoat and tidy as before!
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