Loving these and these @Green_Eyed_Girl and @Peithofab iridescent colours, thanks for the inspiration.
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Topcoat was maybelline electric mermaid, if you fancy some 
very impressed with it. Still looks good even after a week
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I thought “maybe it’s Mabelline”
thanks @Green_Eyed_Girl I’ll see if I can get some 
…and @Melody1 then again 
"maybe she’s born with it??? 
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I put it ontop of an old mint blue rimmel polish called peppermint that I’ve had for yonks. The shimmer is all the topcoat though.
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@Sea - apologies for a tardy response. Mine is Born Pretty Astral Realm over a black polish. It is certainly not looking it’s best in the photo! 
The gold and purple shine and shimmer and play off each other so well in the light. I really like it and it went perfectly with my outfit and insane gold stilettos.
My favourite Born Pretty polish is still Aurora Borealis though.
@MsSubExperimenter I think the roulette wheel served you well, they’re fabulous Christmas nails.
@ChloJakes - spectacular, love them! Strong statement nails.
And @Melody1 , very good for a first attempt, I love the colour.
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@ChloJakes I love the reindeer 
@Peitho thank you I’m generally grinchy so too Christmassy is a no-no haha. These are festive without being over the top Christmassy I think!
I had the Halloween roulette twice in a row and that’ll probably be the one I gravitate to for most of the year
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@MsSubExperimenter & @ChloJakes love the Christmas manicures, something I can aspire to for next year.
@Peitho , thanks for the encouragement, most people have diplomatically avoided comment, a couple were similarly enthusiastic about the colour but I have yet to hear the magic phrase
“Ooh, I love your nails”
Maybe next time
As they say, practise makes perfect… I am clearly a lot less practised than most on this thread! The magic phrase will come but it’d be very jammy of you to get it on your first go when some of us have been failing miserably for years!
@Melody1 there’s a reason I pay to have mine done! 
I do love the colour and the effort (when I attempt my own nails it basically equates to coat the entire end of my fingers and then use nail varnish remover and cotton wool buds to remove it from everywhere except the nails!)
Brilliant job 
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@ChloJakes stunning. Simple (for you, not me!) but brilliant. Love them.
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Beautiful Tequila Sunrise Holiday Nails @ChloJakes - Very holiday appropriate. They look happy!
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I was thinking exactly the same! 
Heya sorry late on reply I am doing this colour mix again I two weeks will keep you posted
LOL… this one will be a bit different. A male posting about nail polish of all things. Those into true drag would use it and many in the Goth scene would use black but my situation was a bit different. I use a wood stove for secondary heat and also have a hobby based maple syrup operation. I have to process a lot of fire wood each year. Like a dummy, I was wearing running shoes instead of steel toe boots while running the log splitter. To be expected, a log fell off the splitter right on my foot and within a week the nail was an ugly black and purple. With the start of pool season and in-laws coming I decided to paint them all black so not to gross anyone out. It was actually well received to my surprise. A couple comments about “Uncle B’s” toes was all I got. Did it again this past summer while off work for three weeks just for fun. I don’t know anything about the different types but the cheap drug store stuff I bought would chip around the edges after a few days and also show the nail growth. It also didn’t work well just to add new coats on top of what was already applied. Strip it down and start again. Not sure if that is a kink or me just liking to be different.
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Many routes into using nail polish, though I admit disguising damage is a first for me. Good on you for keeping it going during pool seasons. There’s lots of good advice and articles at the start of this thread from when @Ian_Chimp was giving a trial go on the best ways of applying and keeping it pristine. Not sure there’s much you can do about the nails growing out though but there are ways to prevent them being damaged by the solvent removers so reapplying is easier.
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Many routes into using nail polish, though I admit disguising damage is a first for me. Good on you for keeping it going during pool seasons. [/quote]
LOL… no idea how I dreamed up that one. Wore sandals to the local petrol / convenience store a couple times. No one even noticed. Doing it full time? No, but summer vacations? Likely Not sure if I have the guts to try a colour other than black though.
So… I reviewed the entire nail polish thread and only recently did the first male post show up from @Melody1 . I am in the same camp. I don’t regularly paint nails but once in a while it’s fun. To the ladies that do this often; how do you get such straight defined lines? How do you get the high gloss smooth nail look? If I try, I paint "outside the lines"and the top of the nail is too course to have that shine look.
You reviewed “the entire thread” poorly, the third post is from @PleasureDrone and the fouth post is from @Ian_Chimp as well as further ones from both gents!
I do not paint my nails regularly, even when I did (a couple of decades ago), they were not as perfect as many in the thread but I would say, using regular polish, getting a smooth finish is about having a well prepped nail underneath, buffed and smooth and then making sure each coat you apply is completely dry before adding another. As to the straight lines… practise improves technique - mine used to be a lot straighter when I did pain them regularly than they are now!
I would also say though, that most of the “perfect” nails in the thread are gel nails rather than regular nail polish from a bottle. I’ve never tried gels so I’ll let the experts answer questions on them but they do look incredible.
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