Iron Lung Nail Art

I saw the movie Iron Lung back on Sunday and it's been living in my head rent-free, so I decided to paint some nail art before I see it again soon. I'm going to list all of the products used then explain the process on the second paragraph to try to keep things somewhat neat: Glisten & Glow Dry + Prep, KB Shimmer Stay Put Hydrating Base Coat, Bee's Knees Lacquer Void, Bee's Knees Lacquer By Azura!, Cracked Worthy of Love, Cracked Drugstore Chocolate, DRK Nails Magic Effect, DRK Nails Seal Glaze, KB Shimmer Restoration Drops Polish Thinner, Cracked Quick Dry Top Coat, a dotting tool, a small detail brush, and various magnets (I used both velvet and glass bead magnetization styles).

Alright. The way I managed this was doing the usual prep and base coat and then I added opaque bases of color (Void, a black, for the x-ray design nails, and Worthy of Love, a dark red for the magnetic red nails). After that, I did the first rounds of magnetic polish: For By Azura! for the x-rays, I applied the polish thickly and quickly magnetized by resting my thumb over one of the "legs" of a horseshoe magnet, then moving my thumb to rest next to the magnet (similar position to doing velvet, but just being next to the magnet instead of inside, if that makes sense) and for Drugstore Chocolate, I did a simple glass bead. After the magnetic layer, I added the seal glaze, remagnetized, and let that dry (I also added it to the glass bead ones even though it wasn't strictly necessary). After that, I painted designs for the x-rays with By Azura! in a traditional velvet style. I let all that dry for a bit, added seal glaze to the nails with painted designs (also kept up the velvet magnetization for that stage), and let that dry again. After that, I finished things off by adding top coat to all of my nails (along with a second coat of it for any nails I felt had a bit too much texture from the design painting). The thinner and magic effect had been used during the design painting phase as needed when I felt that the polish was getting a bit thick on my work dish or the laid design needed some more wiggle room for the magnet. I know it's a lot, so I'll try to answer questions as well as I can if anyone has some and I'll post static photos of the finished nails below.