How To Use Foil Nail Art

Foil nails look so effortlessly chichi in their shining glory. Who knew foil was and so tricky to use?! One tiny mistake and your manicure is ruined. The foil can refuse to stick and lift the polish upwards, and fifty-fifty if y'all've somehow managed to stick it on your blast, a top coat can shrink those gentle foils! Information technology'southward a different story if you lot're using gel. Once you lot've cured your base layers the process is nice and smooth. But with polish, boom foils tin be a full nightmare.

Nevertheless, foil nail art was something I've been keen to effort for a long time. However, after numerous unsuccessful attempts to stick that foil on my nails, simply getting it to stick to the nail seemed impossible, let alone attempting whatsoever nail fine art pattern. Determined to make the foil work, – later on two days of failure, I've finally figured it out! Truly, practice makes perfect. So today, I'thou sharing my tips with y'all in this Foil Nails how to! Read on and shine on, my friends!

HOW TO:

1. Paint one glaze of blackness smoothen. Note, if you're using foils with polish (not gel) – use nighttime polish as your base. That way, if your foil bleeds, it won't exist visible.
2. Paint second glaze of polish and permit it dry for a few minutes until well-nigh dry but nonetheless a fleck tacky. A good test is to touch your smooth and see if you withal can get out finger prints on it. If so, gently printing a small piece of foil (cutting in accelerate) on the surface of your nails. Lift to check that it'southward fastened. If not, press a fleck more than. If somehow, your nail polish got stuck to the foil and lifts from the blast, printing it back down and a wait a few seconds before lifting the foil.
3. Repeat pace 2 on all fingers. Don't worry if it doesn't look too perfect or if it lifted the smoothen in a few spots. Cover those patches with another piece of foil (do a second foil layer) or simply fill in the areas with polish. That's why it's better to use nighttime polish, it covers the flaws. Don't worry if your nail surface doesn't look perfect at this stage, top coat will fix it!
4. Before sealing your foil extravaganza with a top coat, await at to the lowest degree 5 minutes for it to set. Then, extra carefully glide a peak coat* over without touching the surface of your nail with the brush. In one case the first layer is dry, apply 2nd layer. This time aiming to even out the bumpy nail surface. Done!

*Notation, not all acme coats are 'foil-friendly', before using your top glaze on a finished foil nails wait, try different superlative coats over foil (on a practice wheel) to find out which one works the best**.

Used: Bounding main Siren Midnight Moves, SoNailicious Boutique foils (besides endeavor this astonishing nail foil set!) **Rimmel Finishing Touch top glaze (it worked wonders for me!).

So yes, nail foils require some actress endeavour just the results are totally worth it. It'southward a stunning, shining one of a kind nail wait!

What most you guys, have you tried foil nails? How did your become with it? Any good tips to share for working with foils?

– Maria, xx

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