New Mani

[mlroseplant]

I get what you're saying, and believe me, there is no apology necessary. I did want to make the distinction of wanting to get a belly button ring vs. promising to quit smoking or finish Large Project X. I think there is a big difference between those two categories of promises to oneself.

 

[bluejay]

Yesterday, I went to my nail salon to get a new mani for Halloween. I got my regular clear/pink gel on my fingers with some nail art on my little pinkies. On my left pinkie I got a black base, with an orange jack-o-lantern . On my right  pinkie, orange base with a white ghost on it. A great job again by my manicist. Incidentally, I was wearing a black skort, orange tee with a jack-o-lantern print, orange fleece too. Also, I was wearing black fishnet hose with my orange patent knee boots. This made for some nice compliments from other customers in the salon, including my manicist.

Happy Heeling,

bluejay

[Cali]

I went to a brown with magnetic copper sparkles. The magnet oriented the sparkles so that one direction it looks brown-copper, another direction orange-copper, and another direction yellowish-green. The magnet also put thin bright copper waves across each nail.

[Logjam]

20 hours ago, Cali said:

I went to a brown with magnetic copper sparkles. The magnet oriented the sparkles so that one direction it looks brown-copper, another direction orange-copper, and another direction yellowish-green. The magnet also put thin bright copper waves across each nail.

That sounds very clever and cool indeed!

While I wear color on toes almost 100% of the time, I’ve not mustered the gumption to venture beyond clear gel. However, the aforementioned nail tech drops yet another hint from time to time.

[Cali]

2 hours ago, Logjam said:

That sounds very clever and cool indeed!

While I wear color on toes almost 100% of the time, I’ve not mustered the gumption to venture beyond clear gel. However, the aforementioned nail tech drops yet another hint from time to time.

Once my nail bed on some fingers started to have issues, I had to get the nails covered with acrylic to hold them together; then you need to cover the acrylic with gel.  That was 10 years ago.  It took awhile to get use to having colored nails.  I get compliments from both men and women, and may people will compare my nails to their....really no comparison

You could start with a translucent gel with a very little color.  Or you could ask your nail tech to do a magnet gel on your baby fingers.  I think she would be excited to do it.  The polish is sometimes called 'cat eye' when you use a different magnet to get the total cat eye effect.

Cat eye nail polish works by using special formulas with metallic or iron particles that are pulled into patterns by a strong magnet. Google it and see all the effects you can get.  It very similar to the special effects of some car paint jobs in the 70's