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

  • kakler bitmapEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    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

    • DaPorkchop_ [they/she/it]@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      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.