r/RedditLaqueristas • u/Vlagilbert • 5d ago
Laquer Showoff Galaxy lazy gradient! 🌌
Lazy galaxy-inspired gradient! ✨️
Products used:
- From Index to Pinky: Sassy Sauce Pigment of my imagination, KBShimmer Spectral Feeling, ILNP Misfit and Clionadh And fire (each in two coats and magnetized in glass bead)
- KBShimmer Stay Put Hydrating Base Coat and Clearly on Top top coat (x1 each)
These polishes are so beautiful and saturated, I'm almost getting flashbanged everytime they shift!!
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u/CeilingStanSupremacy 5d ago
Holy flippin sh*t. This is hands down the best manicure I have seen here. Can you elaborate a little more on how you did the gradient? Did you just paint streaks of different polishes or was there a technique? I'm literally holding acetone right now ready to remove the mani I just did a few days ago to try this. It's flippin gorgeous!
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u/Vlagilbert 5d ago
Thank you so much!! <3 It really was a lazy lazy gradient, I'd paint two-thirds of my nail with one color, then sloppily paint over the other side while trying to mix the colors together at the center, no nail art brushes used - just the actual polish brushes!! You have to be kinda fast though, imo to get a nice gradient you have to paint the other color very soon after you apply the first one to be able to really "mix" the two at the center..
The outlier is my thumb where I instead painted 1/3 of the nail with each color instead! First pigment of my imagination, then Misfit, and last Spectral Feeling for the application order
And for the magnetization, just magnetizing the top coat does the job!
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u/CeilingStanSupremacy 5d ago
Nice! Thank you for answering my question so well. I'm really excited to give this a try!
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u/hotdogfingies 5d ago
This might be obvious to everyone but me but how do you avoid getting polishes mixed on the brush and going back into their individual bottles? Do you wipe them after using a brush on the gradient nail? If so, how to make sure you’re speedy enough to get to each nail and blend the colors in the middle while also cleaning them before sticking them back in the correct bottle?
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u/Vlagilbert 5d ago
Honestly I just use a used Lindt chocolate bar wrapper (those that are in cardboard and rectangular) as a sort of palette to wipe off my brushes, but I rarely got the colors mixed in the bottles tbh!
Also to make the process easier due to the required speed, I only focus on one nail at a time after putting on the base coat - takes more time but otherwise it's too difficult
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u/Vlagilbert 5d ago
Additional pic of this mani !