At the weekend, I was near a Hobbycraft, and popped in. In the fancy dress make up section they had these little bottles of liquid latex for £3! It's designed to make warts and wrinkles and fake skin for wounds and so on, but it's perfect for nail art!
This bottle is 28ml, so not huge, but bigger than Liquid Palisade, and £3, so much, much cheaper!
There is no brush, but I just used a small paintbrush.
Step 1: paint a coat of latex round your finger, getting close to the nail but not touching the polish.
Step 2: allow to dry - the latex turns almost clear. This is where Liquid Palisade looks better, as it's coloured, so you can see it more easily. But maybe I could add food colouring to this?
Step 3: do your nail art. In this case, I stamped using Models Own Chrome Cerise and a MoYou London plate.
Step 4: Allow polish to dry, and then peel off your latex. It comes off in one big stretchy piece.
Step 5: You're done! This was the nail immediately afterwards - but you can just rub the skin a bit and any extra bits come right off.
This was the result immediately after removing the liquid latex. I didn't do any clean up at all! The reason for the random colours and patterns is that I was just experimenting with different polishes (these are all Models Own Chromes) to see if it made a difference - it didn't seem to!
It was a bit tricky to clean up the brush afterwards, as I left it quite a while and it had gone all gummy. I think next time I'd wash it straight away, or maybe try using a cotton bud. But I can't wait to use this for water marbling, as it's ridiculously easy and practical!
I had thought about liquid latex, as I knew it was something that artists use to block off areas of paper they don't want to paint on. I know that it can be quite runny, and I wonder if the 'fancy dress/make up' version is a thicker consistancy than the artists version?
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I've never seen the artists' kind, but this wasn't runny at all. I'm trying to think of a comparison, but it's easy to paint on and doesn't drip or anything. It's runnier than toothpaste, but less runny than shampoo.... Maybe about the consistency of good thick hand cream?
DeleteThanks- I think a friend may have some of the artists version, I'll check with them. I know it's used for watercolours, so has to be used with a paintbrush, and can be quite finely put on, sounds like it would be thinner than yours.
DeleteStjärnor
If you've got a clean empty polish bottle put some in there, you can keep the brush in then and don't have keep cleaning brushes :)
ReplyDeleteThanks - I don't know why I didn't think of that!
DeleteWhat a great idea! A saviour to the nail art community for sure :-D
ReplyDeleteIt's brilliant isn't it? It wasn't my idea!
DeleteI've used this several times now, and I'm a total convert. It's so easy, and really really useful.