Hey everyone, today's post is inspired by my friend Kyla who texted asking where was the best place to find Matte polishes in Canada. You can imagine her surprise when I told her that she didn't have to look further than Wal-Mart to make every polish Matte!
I started off with my Revlon Post Trauma base and over that 2 coats of Sally Hansen's Black Heart, my go-to black polish. Once that was fairly dry, I added a coat of NYC Matte Me Crazy Mattyfing Top Coat.
Then, once that had dried transforming my base into a Matte version of it, I freehanded with Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat the shiny tips and used China Glaze's Cranberry Splash to do the same on my accent nail - adding the top coat after. And voliá!
That's all you need and you have a nice, simple but elegant what I'm calling a Matte French Nail. I have no idea what the actual name is, but that's how I used it to describe it to my Mother.
Every girl should have a Mattifying Top Coat in their collection, it's such a handy tool to transform your normal day polish into something with a twist! And they don't even have to be expensive either! Like I mentioned above, I got mine at Wal-Mart, 2 polishes for $3.00!
Do you have any cool nail design to do with matte polish?
ETA: And for some weird reason my middle nail has an indent in it. I wonder what I did to it....
ETA: And for some weird reason my middle nail has an indent in it. I wonder what I did to it....
Thanks for the info!! I got my nyc matte bottle at rexall (2.49...still very cheap) and i should check walmart next time when I used up my bottle... 2 for 3.00 is such a steal!
ReplyDeleteNo problem! It's actually pretty funny, but I just did a design with matte this time and it's still working perfectly. And yeah, 2 for $3, you can't get any better than that can you?? Glad you enjoyed it, I'd love to see what you did with it!
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