You guys, I have gone and dug out my textured polishes! It has been probably a year (or longer?) since I last used a textured polish as anything more than an accent dot. I forgot how glittery they are. But I am not looking forward to removing this mani!!
I had also forgotten how much fun it is to do gradients with textured polish. because they are 50% glitter, it is mostly the glitter and not the pigment that transfers in the gradient. So, thinks ends up shiner and slightly lighter in color than intended, but super textured! I couldn’t stop running my fingers over my nails while I wore this mani.
This might also be one of my more recent striping tape manis that has actually WORKED. I feel like my last few were wrongly positioned on one or more nails and this isn’t 🙂 it is also likely the last tape mani you will see for a while since I not have enough time to play with tape while in the hospital!
Colors:
~ Black: Sinful Colors – Black on Black
~ Teal textured: Julie G – Sleigh Ride
~ Blue textured: Zoya – Sunshine
I hope you enjoyed this brief non-stamping design interlude…we basically go right back to stamping on Wednesday! I just didn’t have time for much else 
Comments on: "Blue Textured Fishtail" (17)
Just so absolutely lush my fingers are twitching to rub already
Haha! I don’t know WHY I like rubbing my fingers over anything textured on my nails, but i do!!
Love this! Is this black striping tape?
Nope! Black creme polish that I used striping tape over! I don’t know how well striping tape would stick to textured polish, especially since you can’t top coat manis like this?
Wow! That’s amazing – you did a phenomenal job on these! I’m afraid to ask, how long it took you to do these? 🤐
Maybe two hours? And most of that was waiting for the black base to dry completely so the tape wouldn’t lift it.
Wow – amazing! Great job!
🙂
OH if you wanna do something like this make SURE you have either tape or a latex barrier around your cuticles before you do the textured gradient…textured polish is an absolute pain to clean off!
Which latex barrier do you recommend? I don’t have but have heard of them.
My favorite is the KBShimmer one, but any of the thicker one will work. I don’t recommend the super cheap Chinese one (like, the born pretty store one is terrible)
Let me see if Amazon has them. Thank you!
I didn’t find that one the KBShimmer One. I did find one from Magique Second Skin Barrier, it has good reviews. Let me give it a try.
Good luck! Latex barrier is super helpful for anything that would otherwise require a lot of clean up (mainly gradients and water marbling..especially if using glitters)!
Thank you for the recommendation! 😊
OMGosh!!!! I simply love this! Takes me back to the Eva of old 😀
😀 thank youuuuuu. And yah, this is very my nails circa 2016. I miss it, honestly! I just haven’t had time!