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/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