Aluminium on Nailuminium (+tutorial)

Hey! I was thinking the other day that I hadn't worn black nails for a long time and I tried to come up with dark design. I remembered these very effective shattered glass nails by Polish Pals and I wanted to recreate them. But she used large glitter to make those and unfortunately, that wasn't available for me at the moment. I looked for another material and, being nailuminium, aluminium foil saved me. You see, cause the name Nailuminium is combination of words nails and aluminium (my common nick). I had hard time photographing these, the light was simply wrong, but let's have a look!

How to and more photos after the jump!
Polish Pals also made a tutorial for her mani, I partly followed it, but it was little different with the aluminium and I'd like to share my process too.

What I used:
Rimmel 800 Black Out
NYC Turbo Dry top coat
enii-nails matt finish top coat
scissors
toothpick (or similar)
piece of aluminium foil

 
The process:
Prepare everything before you get to polishing your nails. Take a piece of aluminium foil and cut it into tiny pieces. To cut it more quickly, cut it to stripes, put those stripes together and cut that. (as shown)

When you have it all cut and prepared, polish your nails black. If you have two coater like me, you can polish all 10 nails and then come back to the first nail, put on second layer of polish and start placing pieces of foil in the wet polish. You need to work quickly so the polish doesn't dry, but when it does you can always add another layer of clear polish or glue the foil with dot of polish on your nail. Finish one nail and move to another, put second layer of polish, start placing pieces... and so on.

At the end make sure the surface is smooth, seal it with two or three coats of top coat (one is good, but not totally smooth, I covered it in two coats of NYC top coat and one coat of half-matte top coat).

The removal is pretty similar to glitter, I used aluminium foil method to remove my aluminium design :D.

And as usual, a bit of matching the outfit:

You can see new button in the sidebar: I finally set pinterest for Nailuminium, the thing I like about this is that you can browse my nail art by categories, I used that a lot at Chalkboard Nails' pinterest when I started with nail art. I wanted floral, I browsed her floral pinboard. I wanted tape, I browsed her tape manicures pinboard, all in one place. I also made Inspired by Nailuminium board, where I pin your recreations and have them all in one place too (let me know about your recreations so I can pin them there! :).

I'm afraid I will be posting just about once a week now, I don't have enough nail art to post more, I only polish my nails once a week during the school year, hope you understand, sorry.
Take care!