Astor got me Ciate’s Very Colourfoil Manicure kit and I needed to try it immediately. This kit comes with the grey polish, the glue and 30 foil strips. You may remember that I have also used Ciate’s Caviar Manicure.
The first step is to paint your nails; I used the included
gray nail polish. But you can use any color polish that tickles your fancy! Let
the nail polish dry completely, don’t be impatient.
After your nail polish has dried you will want to use the
glue and put a few drops on each nail. You also want to make sure that you wait
for the glue to dry a little bit, until it’s tacky. Put the glue anywhere you
want the foil to show up.
Now that the glue has started to dry and is tacky-ish, it’s
time to stick on the foil. The kit comes with many different color choices.
Place the foil on your nail with the shiny side up and press down for a few
seconds and then rip the foil off your nail; you may need to do this a few
times. (Yes, I did originally put the shiny side onto my nail and couldn’t
figure out why no color was showing up).
This
is what your nails will look like after you press (and rip off) the foil.
I repeated pressing on the foil and ripping it off so that I
got better coverage. I should have stopped with one color (even though the kit
says you can use as many colors as you want to until your entire nail is covered)
because this would have made the manicure last much longer. But it just wasn’t
as exciting for me, so I covered all of my nails completely.
After I did the pink foil I added more glue and then used
the green foil, and repeated the same steps with the silver foil. This was the
finished result.
Finally I used some glitter polish as a top coat to really
make these nail pop! This polish didn’t come with the kit, I already owned it.
Of course this step is not necessary.
Aaaand this is the manicure after three days. Certainly not
very cute, the foil started peeling and left my nails a little bit sticky. Just
like Ciate’s Caviar Manicure kit, the end result was very fun but the manicure
doesn’t last long. This is a fun manicure for the night of an event or a
weekend away, but don’t count on it to survive for longer than a few days!
Sutton
i love the name of your blog! so cute
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francesca
http://www.frankvinyl.com
Thanks, lovely!
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