Monday, July 2, 2012

Sun-Activation Polish and Stamping

It's summer and it's time for some nail color fun!  I discovered Blaze by Solar Active last year and enjoyed all the color changing fun.  I also discovered the idea of nail stamping by Konad, I loved the nail art you get and it's easy to do.  This year I also found that you can use xanthan gum (xg) to thicken your polishes if they are too runny but most importantly it's useful when you are stamping and don't want to pay for the "special" stamping polish.  Just to let you guys know this is not a tutorial on how these products work. If you are interested you can do a search on all these ideas and products on youtube or the companies.  This is just to show what I did and keep in mind you can do the same with different colors and stamps and the like.  I just already had these colors on my nails from a mani/pedi I  had done and it was ready to chip. So the companies:
Konad.com- stamping stuff ( amazon sells other companies too however Konad seems to be better than other brands.)
Essie.com- This is just polish
Xanthan gum - Thicken polish:  can go to a specialty health store ie: whole foods, or sun harvest, central market
Sally Hansen- nail polishes - combined to form one color
Blazenailpolish.com- uv (sun) changing polish

So here's what I got: one hand was in the sun the other hidden and this was a huge color difference of my nails: left was in the sun and the right was hidden from the sun.
Here's how I did it:
You know how I said I had a mani? Well I was playing with my stamping and messed up the polish so then I grabbed my own stuff and re-polished my nails.  Sally's double duty  and then essie fifth avenue, and then topped off with sally hansen's top coat. 

While it was semi drying I mixed Sally Hansen's polishes a version of silver :220, 22, 230 and mixed in some xanthan gum (to a thick consistency) for stamping (bottle with the blue lid).


Took the Konad stamper and stamped an image (put polish on image, scrape excess and roll motion over the image and then place on nail).

Then I covered with the blaze polish since it goes on clear and then turns black in the sun.  So in the end the nails will go from design to black out and it's just an interesting look.
Hope this finds you well.  Sorry it's not a tutorial but if you want let me know and I can go over steps if you like. Enjoy!

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