Sos Nail Rescue Plus Nail Designs

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  Step 1

  Gather your material:
  - A tea bag ( you can get tea bags for loose tea or just sacrifice a bag of pre-packed tea ;) )
  - Your base coat of choice, I'm using Misslyn Repair polish.
  - a soft, gentle nail file ( no metal or glass )
  - Uhm, your nails, obviously? :D

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  Step 2

  Rip the tea bag tissue into little pieces. You can do like I do and rip a lot and store some for later use, or you just rip a few.
  First of all: you won't neccessarily need 10 of them. If, say, 5 of your nails show splitting symptops, you'll only need 5 little pieces, right?
  Try to get the size about right so you're ready to go once you started. Small pieces for your pinkie, bigger pieces for your thumb, you'll get the idea.

  I do not recomment cutting the pieces because the define edges might show!

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  Step 3

  Work slowly and thoroughly: Give your first damaged nail a layer of base coat. after a few seconds - before the polish dries! - pick a piece of tissue and lay it down over the damaged white part of your nail. You don't need to cover more!

  gently press down with your finger tips, dab down stubborn edges with the polish brush.

  LET DRY!

  Give it another layer of your basecoat, covering the length of the tissue also. Work from the tip down to smooth down the lower edge of the tissue.

  Give your undamaged nails a normal layer of basecoat.

  Let dry!

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  Step 4

  Once everything has dried - this is VERY important!! - get your file and carefully and softly (!) file off the excess tissue in a downward motion ( see picture ). If your nails aren't dry yet, you'll just pull off the tissue again.

  The excess tissue will come off by itself once filed down everywhere, don't pull it off.
  It's basically the same step you'd do for a nail foil. :)

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  Step 5

  Here's what you'll end up with.

  Continue your usual nailpolish procedure from here. I recommend using opaque polishes that are not too runny but rather thick and gooey as the texture of the fixed nail might snow.

  Please note that if you go and take a bath or swim, you will be able to peel the tissue off. You'll have to remove / undo this after a long soaking session.
  The tissue comes off easily with nail polish remover.

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  Step 6

  *drumroll*

  From here on, it's just nail designs I made. :P

  I call this one 'before dawn': Purple gradient on translucent pink base with black design.

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  Step 7

  Candy shop, my alltime favorite.

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  Step 8

  The Thing from the Swamp: Steel grey with a sweep of red/green changing pigments, black claw marks.

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  Step 9

  Water Marble style

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  Step 10

  Laggon ( on acrylic nails I had last summer ): glittering lilac base with a blue gradient and black swirls.

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  Step 11

  Most recent design, 'Mermaid': Steel grey to blue gradient, embellished with some glitter particles and a few rhinestones.

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jenny.furner · Boggabri, New South Wales, AU · 2 projects 27th November 2012

I've read this over and over again and never understood what you mean by 'splitting' now I totally understand and this is the most frustrating problem in the entire world, like ever! Thank you soo much! will definitely try it next time!

FrolleinKram · Las Vegas, Nevada, US · 132 projects 28th November 2012

Hehe... I wasn't sure about the word, I'm not a native speaker.

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blurrymind · Alameda, California, US · 32 projects 22nd September 2012

love the mermaid gradient nails.
prettymarshmallow.blogspot.com

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munday.wendy · Weymouth, England, GB 20th July 2012

just when my nail split i came across this thankyou you are a life saver very impressed on how well this works applied it on top of nail and underneath

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linda e. 11th May 2012

love the tea bag idea!

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Belinda's Grace · London, GB · 7 projects 30th January 2012

love the water marble style! ....wish i had nails :/

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