I don't really care for the look of glitter toppers. Iridescent glitter or flakies I like but regular big hex glitters as sparse top coats? Not so much. Now if you were to wear those glitters as full coverage, ooh yes please! The problem is, some glitters just won't be able to reach opacity or would take too many coats and therefore result in thick nails. So if you have some glitter toppers that you want to be opaque, all you need is said polish, a pipette, something disposable like a small paper cup and to make cleaning the pipette easier I used my nail polish scrub tub.
All you're basically going to do is allow the polish to settle (takes about a day if you've shaken it) and then with your pipette, you're going to suck out some of that excess suspension base. You won't be able to get all of it and you will get some glitters sucked up too but if you are careful and find a good angle (I tilt the bottle to a 45 degree angle to get the excess base to "pool" into the corner) you will be able to get most of it. Remember to clean out your pipette between bottles! I do mine but squirting out all the sucked up base into a paper cup and then stick it into my nail polisher remover tub and suck up acetone a few times into the pipette and emptying it back into the tub. Allow to dry and move onto another bottle!
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| Left to right, Milani Fuchsia, Lavender, Gold and Silver |
I've swatched them below at one dabbed coat each (over an old mani) before I sucked out the excess suspension base. The formula on these are good btw.
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BEFORE pic
(This is over Sally Hansen Titanium Flush in case you're wondering) |
Now
Gold and
Silver you can reach opacity in about three dabbed coats but since I was going to be tweaking
Fuchsia and
Lavender anyway, I thought I might as well work on these too and make achieving full opacity a little easier with them. I don't think you will be able to reach opacity with
Fuchsia and
Lavender unless you use 5 coats and maybe not even then. So I allowed the polishes to settle and then the next day...
After!
Doesn't look like much but it really does make a big difference when you apply it!
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| AFTER pic! |
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| I forgot I had this on and wore it out. Yes, I looked crazy |
This is two dabbed coats. Nice! Also, these don't dry that "thirsty". One coat of top coat will do ya!
Also, you gotta love that peel off base coat :)
Hope this helps someone out there. Cheers!
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