SPECIAL GUEST POST!! :)

Hello cee.kwan readers!! *waves*

While cee.kwan is off getting Asianized, I volunteered to do a guest post on her blog. However, like most things in my life...I procrastinated. At first I was super gung-ho to do a tutorial on Canucks inspired nails merging my two obsessions in life together...but Vancouver, I'm sure you know how that panned out this season :( Next year....

Regardless, I still get to indulge myself in nail polish just minus the Canucks, at least until September when preseason starts. Back to nail polish...I have a ton...and I do mean a TON...no joke. But I occasionally get asked...well, doesn't some of it dry out? The answer simply put is yes. There are ways to prevent this like making sure the rims are always clean, but I understand how that isn't a priority sometimes especially when your freshly polished nails are drying. To me, there are three things I do with dried out or slightly dried out nail polish:

1. throw it out

2. use nail polish thinner  **if you choose this option don't shake to mix it. I can't stress it enough how bad it is for nail polish to be shaken! Roll the bottle in your hands or hold onto the shaft and roll it out if it's not palm friendly. Shaking nail polish creates bubbles and sometimes it can dry out your polish even more. I see people shaking polish all the time and I think a bit of me dies each time...CRINGE CRINGE CRINGE!!

3. Designs!! :D

Semi dried nail polish is great for nail plates, but I also like to make little thin abstractesque lines with them, especially when a lot of different colours are used on a neutral base. I'm feeling lazy so I will only use one colour, but hopefully you get the point. So what am I trying to achieve? This:

How do I get this?

STEP ONE: plop some nail polish on a surface. I like doing this on my nail plates. Just a reminder this also works with fresh nail polish too, but it'll just take slightly longer.

STEP TWO: Using a dotting tool or a bobby pin start jabbing at the nail polish lifting it off the surface until the polish is stringy. Remember how I mentioned fresh polish will take longer? This is what I meant by that...it'll just take a bit more time for the polish to become aerated. 

STEP THREE: Once you have it at a nice stringy consistency, drape the little strands over your nailbed from both sides. The closer you do it to the nail polish blob the thicker lines you'll get...similar the cheese on pizza when you pull away. 

STEP FOUR: Clean up the edges and voila! (see above)

Ok this was fun!! I'll post again the next time cee.kwan is on vacay, though it might be avec moi! :D

....provided she lets me that is!

- smallberries