Pastel Purple Galaxy Ruffian Nail Art
I decided to have a try at a pastel pink and purple galaxy mani, I thought it would be nice to try using some “spring time” colours than black lol!
So I sponge my galaxies add my stars and my glitter, tidy up my fingers and add my topcoat. It was quite late so I decided to go to bed and photograph my nails in the morning (hopefully with some sunshine)
The next day (after my second cup of coffee when I was feeling slightly more human) I noticed it…Â Epic shrinking, I honestly haven’t seen anything like it! The polish had shrunk round the edge of my nail but not from the free edge oO
The base colour was still exactly where I had applied it and so was the topcoat! The only way I can think of to describe it is like a sandwich without enough filling! I really should have taken a picture!
After staring at it for a while I realized that I could try removing the flappy bits of topcoat and paint round the edges to make a (almost) ruffian mani.
Purple Ruffian Galaxy Nails
The polishes I used:
- Barry M – Blueberry.
- Sally Hansen – Good To Grape.
- Barielle Shades – Stardust.
- Barry M – Shocking Pink.
- Maybelline – Lilac Charm.
- Seventeen – Pinking Shear.
- Sinful Colors – Cinderella.
- Sally Hansen – Lavender Envy.
- Illamasqua – Baptiste.
- Barry M – Pink Flamingo.
I started off with a couple of coats of Blueberry, which is a really pretty pale blue cream.
I added a few drops of Good To Grape, Shocking Pink, Lilac Charm, Pinking Shear and Pink Flamingo onto a plastic box lid (they are great for mixing polish) I then used a small bit of sponge and some tweezers to dab the polish into my nails.
When that was dry I did the same with Cinderella and Lavender Envy, I applied three iridescent stars to each nail and painted on a little bit of stardust, when it was dry I applied Color Club topcoat.
Purple Ruffian Galaxy Nails
Then the shrinky doom happened!
I used a nail art brush and pure acetone to remove the flappy edges of the nail polish, Then using a very tiny brush I used Baptiste to fill the gap! Cleaned up my cuticles and the rescue was complete!
Purple Ruffian Galaxy Nails
I think I managed to rescue this reasonably well! I’m just wondering, has anything like this shrinking ever happened to your nails?
it just didn’t want to work, this was my third attempt lol
The Adorned Claw 