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    Hearts are hard.

    I was inspired by all the V-Day mani’s and have been wanting to goof off with some other magnetic designs. Made a heart-maker out of a steel paperclip and then used three neodymium bar magnets to test out it on a few different magnetics I have. It wasn’t terrible.

    I magnetized the hearts for a minute for the first two layers and then probably 4 minutes for the top coat. I did the heart nail in one round so I could focus on magnet timing and try to optimize the outcome. I had to redo it once because bubbles formed on the first round as it dried and the worst was when I touched the shaper to the nail the second go’round! 😭 I refused to do it again.

    Including practice on my swatch plastic, this mani was close to two hours. 12 hours later and I’ve had a lot of dispersal. I have decided focused magnet techniques (e.g. cate eye) are not may favorite to do on myself often but they are so pretty! But maybe this cheapo polish just doesn’t cure well even with QDTC.

    Base: nailtiques 2, Nail-aid 9-in-1 (1 coat each)

    Color: AZUREBEAUTY #181 (3 coats)

    Top: SH Insta-dri (red) (1 coat, floated)

    I used the dot magnet (pointer fingie), bar (cat eye: ring, pinky), and velvet (thumb). Sunny photo was after 12 hours. Video added to comments.

    by HunnyBadger_dgaf

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    2. ilfy_Hanne on

      Funnily enough i was considering doing this and was thinking “how hard can it be”. Thank you for saving me to pain, ive been de-influenced 😂

    3. uranustinky on

      Tried to make one with paper clips and couldn’t get it to work no matter what. I gave up 😒

    4. Iwillenjoythislife on

      I tried the same thing the other night! I tried with BKL choo choo which worked pretty well but Kathleen and co molten sky didn’t do anything. I think the fine particles must show the design better. I sandwiched a paper clip between a metal gift box lid and the neodymium magnet so that I didn’t have to hold it. I angled the paperclip so it would hover above my finger. 

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