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Many lessons were learned today:

• Scotch tape can only be separated from partly-dry nail polish with great difficulty
• Masking tape will not stick reliably to partly-dry nail polish
• Waiting 2-3 hours between each coat is both annoying and extremely inconvenient, and also not long enough
• Ballpoint pen ink is very hard to remove from a cuticle while keeping the polish intact

That said, I'm pretty happy with the results even though I don't think I'd do this regularly :3

Nice!

Cute!

A friend of mine put the lesbian flag on very specific fingers once and I found it very funny

Oh I should do that at some point :3
If I become good enough to do striped nails

The secret that helped me when i was doing nail designs (god i wanna paint my nails) is nail art pens, try em! They dry in like 30 seconds and are very easy to work with ❤️

ooh i didn't know those were a thing! definitely gonna give those a shot :3

Yeah! Honestly cant believe you had the patience with regular polish, thats actually incredible lol

Those are super pretty o.O

I’ve not been brave enough to try anything complicated like that, but you did a great job on it!

Beautiful job, definitely better than my first attempt at striped nails (in which I also learned all of your listed "lessons" about tape lol). Curious about the ball-ppint pen thing though, I've never used a ball-point pen for anything nail-related

This is very well done and I am inspired.

thanks :3

i used a flexible tape measure and a pen to draw evenly spaced marker dots on my skin along the base of the nail, which i used as a guide for where to place the tape (i initially tried to eyeball it, but maintaining a consistent spacing while also keeping the tape lines parallel proved too difficult after the first line). a little bit of pen overshot onto the cuticle and then got permanently sealed under a very generous layer of top coat, you can kinda see it in the photo if you zoom in.

Aren't there UV-resins? This way you can cut down the waiting time. Also try to buy the better masking tape, the cheap ones don’t even stick to walls properly.

Painting your own nails is hard. For a first attempt, this is a masterpiece. ❤️