My first tutorial (for galaxy nails)! Yay celebrate okay done now let's just jump straight to the pictures :)
(Also, for some reason whenever I edit my pictures my fingers turn super red. Just want to say my fingers are an actual normal color!)
Step 1: Paint your nails two coats of a blue/green polish (I used: Essence Choose Me!)
Don't worry about it being perfect, you can fix that after the whole manicure is done :)
Step 1.5: Rip off a small piece of a makeup sponge and hold it with a tweezer
Step 2: Once your base color is dry, use your tweezer-sponge combo to randomly sponge on a darker blue polish (I used: Sally Hansen Blue It)
Step 3: Sponge the edges of the dark blue with a lighter blue (I used: China Glaze Sky High Top)
Step 4: Sponge the edges of the lighter blue with a green (I used: China Glaze Entourage)
Step 5: Sponge the edges (are you seeing a pattern?) of the green with a mint green (I used: Sally Hansen Mint Sorbet)
Step 6: Lay down a bunch of newspaper. Then, using acrylic paint and a stiff toothbrush (preferably one you don't/won't use), run your finger over the toothbrush-with-paint to create flecks ("stars"). This can get a bit messy :)
Wash the excess acrylic paint off with soap and water.
Step 7: Add some stars that are closer (therefore bigger) to the viewer. I used dotting tools. My actual star-shaped-stars aren't wonderful, and I realize that ;)
Step 8: Add a little holographic polish to certain plain areas of your galaxy (I used: Rimmel London Lasting Finish Pro Top Coat with Spectraflair mixed in)
Homemade holographic top coat!
Step 9: Top coat and cleanup.
There you have it! Your own galaxy :)
HOLO!
I accidently smudged my middle finger, so you can kinda see the Essence base polish :P
Ta da! Loooots of pictures! I was really really happy with how this turned out. I've been watching galaxy tutorials for weeks but I was always nervous of screwing it up. But it really is true that there's no way to screw it up! So go for it!
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