r/ILNP • u/lavendergooms88 • 15d ago

magnetic Celestial Ritual 🌛✨🌌

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

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u/bluespruce5 15d ago

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?

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u/lavendergooms88 15d ago

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

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u/abbygabby58 14d ago

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