Baroness X Stargate

 One of the man's besties has taken to acrylic paint pour art (everyone has a quarantine hobby), and was therefore fascinated when he was told that I could do that same look on my very fingertips.  I was also reminded of a great bundle sale on fluid art polishes  that had recently arrived and so needed to be tried out.

indoor, bright CF lighting

Baroness X keeps doing all sorts of really fascinating stuff with fluid art polishes, adding a whole lot more ingredients and unique flair than just the bubbles.  Stargate is a deeply saturated midnight blue with just a touch of holo dust thrown into the mix.

window-filtered daylight

To this midnight starfield, I've added Llarowe Katarina (aqua with purple shimmer), Cult My Kind of Kool Aid (mauve shimmer), and at the advice of a polisher in the BX fan group who recommended thicker stamping polishes as being great for fluid nails, Pretty Serious Presence (a white crème that's now thickened up to nearly stamping opacity).  

outdoor, bright afternoon sunlight

I dotted and layered all the polishes onto a round silicone mini-mat, making a large enough puddle to end up with enough decals for both hands.  Using the mini-mat was much easier than manipulating a corner of my full-size silicone mat, and I felt confident that a thin polish pool that covered most of the mat would yield enough interesting areas for 10 decals - total success!

indoor, CF task lighting

I let this polish pool dry for about 2 hours, then peeled it up, snipped it into rectangles, and stuck it on to a very thin layer of one of the base colors (which prevents any gaps if the fluid cells result in bald spots).  

window-filtered daylight

I love fluid art nails, and really need to do this more often!

Where to buy:  both a really cool assortment of fluid art polishes and the mini-mats are available direct from Baroness X.

~Michelle