Aussie Nails Monday 11Feb "Food" - Caviar nails

natural sunlight

This weeks Aussie Nails Monday's theme is 'Food'. I had an awesome week away holidaying at a coastal town and my nails were naked for longer than I can remember. It feels strange to have chunky textured "caviar" - coloured micro beads - on my nails and it was good decision to have them only as accent, for two reasons: 1) the caviar discolor the next day, fainted from bright purple to silver, and 2) they keep dropping off which is no good when I have small children around. I bought my nail caviar from an online site, maybe you've better experience from branded caviar-polish system?

For base colour, I used essie's No More Film, a deep violet cream which looks similar to butter London's Marrow. On the rest of my nails, I layered on Cult Nail's Seduction, a colour shifting purple sheer with red and blue flakes, subtle but stunning.

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I was not very patient with caviar. My initial application was to dip my ring finger into a pot of caviar immediately after polishing (to let beads stick on wet polish), and clean up the edges with a small paint brush. After one third dropped off the next day, I peeled the remaining caviar off, put on a layer of PVA glue base coat and dipped finger into the caviar pot - and that's the chunky accent you see in photo taken under natural sunlight.

So my first try with caviar mani leaves me feeling I just had caviar - slightly fishy and an acquired taste. xx Ann  

Aussie Nail bloggers participating in ANM:

Lissa’s Polish Addiction, Marie’s Manicure Madhouse, Shatter Me Claire, A Polished Prance, Shades of Phoenix, The Epitome of Superficiality, Lacquer Dreams, NananaisNails, Enamoured With Enamel, Adelle1985 (Instagram), Kelly's Kolors, Polished Peripherals, Every Little Polish, Mel My Issta, Walk In My Eyeshadow, JennLojko (Instagram), Erinzi’s Nails, Lovessweetas (Instagram), Jas’ Blingtastic Nails, Mckfresh (Instagram), DamoJess (instagram), Lili_Bete (Instagram), The Reluctant Femme, Jibber Jabber, Messy Mansion, Nailovelogy, Ronda, It Is All About The Polish, Pretty Polish Please