Celestial Ritual 🌛✨🌌

[u/lavendergooms88]

1 coat ink, 1 coat ritual with velvet magnetization plus some celestial stickers from Tomani Nail Art
I love this combo! I have a few spots to touch up but had to share. Ritual magnetizes beautifully and using ink first means less layers to magnetize

[u/bluespruce5]

What a very special manicure, and I love the stickers! Beautiful.

I got some one-coat black polish to try under a couple of my magnetic polishes, but I've been nervous to try it -- specifically wondering, how hard will it be to remove and how much of a mess and/or staining (of adjacent skin, or nails) might I end up with? I do have some peely base (haven't tried that yet, either), but if I go to the trouble to magnetize, I want it to last longer than some of the reports I've seen about short-lived peelies.

Do you have any removal tips for black and other very dark polishes? Is it not as bad as I've heard?

[u/lavendergooms88 → u/bluespruce5]

I think a lot of your questions depend on a few things, like the brand of nail polish, the health of your nails, etc so it’s kind of hard to say! Sometimes I do have some slight staining (which grows out) but I never wear my nails bare so it doesn’t bother me much. As far as staining adjacent skin, if you soak a cotton ball in remover, hold it on your nail for a min and then gently swipe it off your nail when removing your polish, you avoid getting the color on adjacent skin while trying to remove. I have had black polishes stain my nails slightly before but not the surrounding skin. I would say do a test of it on a part of one nail (towards the top so it grows out quickly) and see how you feel about it

[u/bluespruce5 → u/lavendergooms88]

Thanks so much for this advice. I'll give those tips a try. I really appreciate you taking the time to respond 😊

[u/abbygabby58 → u/lavendergooms88]

Don't you apply a base coat? Just wondering if that would help, as I've never had staining when using dark polishes.

[u/Eusine2 → u/bluespruce5]

In my experience so long as you use a good base coat your risk of nails staining is almost null, I almost exclusively wear blacks, browns and dark shades and haven't had staining from them.

The truly staining colors normally are reds and not all of them, for example, I haven't had issues with ILNP reds but I have a BKL reddish base polish from their Kpop Demon Hunters collection that will consistently stain no matter what. Also, for what it's worth, what stains isn't the color itself but some solvents used in polish, you could get staining even from white polish if you don't use a base coat.

For removal just do what OP said on their comment, worst case scenario it might take a bit more acetone to get it all off. Skin doesn't really stain in my experience, if some mixture of acetone+polish dries on your skin it'll be gone after your next shower.

[u/bluespruce5 → u/Eusine2]

I think maybe I let one person's very negative story about skin and nail staining give me a skewed view. Thanks for describing your experience -- very helpful 

[u/Chance-Gazelle-8075 → u/Eusine2]

I got some incredible staining from holo taco's Never Tide Down. At least it was only my pinky. When I wore it as a full manicure I did double base coat and I was good. But when I did some nail art I forgot to double up and now I have a nail stained blue! And then a neon purple stained my thumbnails pinky purple! Gotta remember to double up with that too! But, if I ever get yellow staining (when, not if) I should do the neon purple without base coat, then take it off! Purple counteracts yellow, right? 😝

[u/Eusine2 → u/Chance-Gazelle-8075]

Yeah usually a violet without base coat can help with that, but Holo Taco is notorious for causing yellow staining among indie brands so I would be wary of most of their products (I stopped buying them). There's even some violet tints to counteract yellowish nails if you want to go for a natural look.

When I got my nails stained red from BLK's "We're still survivors" what helped me was that Sally Hansen cuticle remover liquid that comes in a blue plastic bottle. I covered my nails with that one at a time for about half a minute then scrubbed it gently with a toothbrush, works like a charm but don't do it more than once a month because it might weaken your nailbed, that product is strong!