Cleaning up your nail polish
When it comes to self-polishing, you’ll always have the risk of screwing up. I never took nail polishing a serious activity and my mind set was “oh well, as long as there’s color on the nail!”. But if you look at professionally done nails, it’s always clean and crisp.
One thing that is important (and what people often look over) is where the nail polish is applied. You shouldn’t fill in you nails all the way up to your cuticles (I didn’t know that at first :p), and subtle differences do look a lot different at the end.
So, what’s a good and bad example of nail polish application?
I’ve gone through my past swatch photos and brought out some.
– Good –
– Bad –
Uneven & covering the cuticle area 
Pushed all the way into the cuticle zone 
Shamelessly overspilling on to the cuticle
So what happens if you ALMOST make it, but have rough zig-zag shapes like below?
you can use a brush, some nail polish remover and a swab to make your imperfections prefect! 😀
hope you guys enjoy!
Catalina
Anonymous
What is wrong with the 2nd pic, with the red polish? It doesn't completely cover the nail?
Oreleona
omg this is so innovative! thanks catalina! i usually use a qtip on my nails, so not a pro at applying nailpolish! but the brush tip makes it easier 🙂
Catalina
@Maye: there is nothing wrong with the second picture. It's in the "good" category.
ckim722
What is that black nail polish?!!
Catalina
Black polish is OPI's baby it's coal outside