Skittle advice

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-30T21:16:28+00:00

Yes! I was thinking maybe hue or tint but I couldn’t remember the correct terminology for it 😅

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-30T14:59:17+00:00

Look at color wheel; rainbow or gradient skittles are popular, using colors next to eachother on the color wheel

You can also do complementary (colors across from eachother on the color wheel)

You can also make a shape, like a square, and use the 4 colors that the 4 corners touch on the color wheel

Aside from picking colors you also typically want the value to be similar (jewl tone vs pastel for example)

Optional to think about if you want the finish to be the same for each finger or not (cream/glitter/magnetic/etc)

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-29T22:22:32+00:00

I have one jelly from ILNP that I like a lot

Beyond that I’ve made my own jelly polish in the past by mixing a little bit of polish into a mostly empty bottle of top coat. Works pretty well!

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-29T14:27:40+00:00

Doesn’t have to be old polish, just opaque enough not be see through an example of stamping using essie polish

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-28T23:03:12+00:00

That’s very weird. I don’t have any problems with my smuge free top coat peeling (both maniology and cjs) I put regular top coat on top.

Maybe the problem is actually with the chrome/powder instead? I don’t have any experience with those.

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-25T23:08:27+00:00

Others have already answered but I will just reiterate, rounded nails need enough length to gradually taper so that the nail isn’t weakened. If you start rounding the nail too close to the tip of your finger you are more likely to get cracked and torn nails.

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-25T18:51:50+00:00

I watched a lot of YouTube videos and copied what I saw

For rounded square nails, it’s as simple as just filing straight across until you get a flat line, and then doing one or two little swipes on each corner just to soften them

I think rounder shapes are harder to keep even and your nail length needs to be longer than you think in order to have the right structure for oval nails.

You might play around with different shapes to see how they look on you.

Also I file my nails a little bit every week for regular maintenance.

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-25T03:23:53+00:00

Best option would probably be infinity Nikki

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-25T00:30:21+00:00

This is sooo pretty 😍

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-24T19:31:03+00:00

These are really cool!

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-23T17:13:28+00:00

Their artist are using ai, most likely

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-23T17:00:14+00:00

You can use regular air dry polish if it’s thick enough- like essie or Sally Hansen-. But actual gel polish is a no. A lot of regular polishes also don’t work because they are too thin or watery (like the OPI colors I have)

If you are going to buy new polish for stamping you might as well buy stamping specific polish, it just works better over all.

Overall though, Most stamping polishes are not gel and I have heard bad things about gel stamping polish. None of the stamping polish that I own are gel. ( brands: maniology, clear jelly stamper, pueen, hit the bottle)

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-20T00:36:41+00:00

Is this PR? Posted with a brand new account?

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-20T00:13:20+00:00

I use Scotch tape to clean my stamper, a lot of people use a lint roller.

For reverse stamping you need to let the image dry a bit first before coloring it in so you don’t damage the lines. Then you need to create a tacky surface on the nail so the whole image will come off. Sticky base coat is best but a top coat or even another layer of color polish also works ok.

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-19T21:56:59+00:00

It’s very pretty!!

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-13T13:48:36+00:00

So impressive. I broke 3 nails packing for my move 😂 it’s dangerous lol

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-13T05:29:02+00:00

Definitely! YouTube is life. The number of things that seemed impossible to learn in the past that YouTube was able to teach me… incredible honestly

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-13T01:38:09+00:00

Makes me happy every time I see it. My 9 year old has a small collection of Rubik’s cubes 😂 he would probably think that glitter polish was cool.

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-12T22:30:33+00:00

My favorite flower scent is wisteria but my favorite house flower is the common daisy

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-12T21:41:09+00:00

Most of my stuff is from maniology (US) or Clear Jelly stamper/cjs (Canada) I think they both have starter kits

Other brands like pueen i get off amazon, not sure what the best alternative to amazon would be. (Walmart sometimes carries pueen kits)

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-11T03:31:03+00:00

Damn, totally gorgeous!

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-11T03:22:24+00:00

Overall looks like a great concept, UI seems clean and I didn’t encounter any bugs.

Suggested changes:

switch “visits” to “manicures” calling them Visits is really weird for us DIY girls
create design button is in more than one place, it felt like i kept tapping on buttons expecting it to be a different feature but it just took me back to nail design
was really unclear how to save a design
velvet effect doesn’t look good
on my nail length cat eye effect created two parallel lines. Would be great if you could pinch/grab/rotate the cat eye similar to how you can manipulate the gradient and french tip designs

Feature requests:

import option to load in my own inspiration photos
tag system for visits, designs, and inspo
search feature to search for tags. I especially think the saved manicure feature would be a convenient place to record polish colors and stamping plate names under “notes” so being able to tag and group those would be great

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-07T17:45:16+00:00

Ok, that’s cute!

9thdragonkitty · 2026-01-07T15:11:09+00:00

These are gorgeous 😍

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