[Den]

I've got a quick dry glossy "taco" that I got at the dollar store. I also have a matte "taco" that I got for $.59 at K-Mart last year. When I'm having a stressful day, I'll paint my nails with the peel-off base coat, 1-2 coats of color, and one of the topcoats... and once it's all dry, I'll peel it all off. Peelies are so satisfying.

[Damies]

@Den & Kaderin: I have the peel off base coat, I think I have three bottles of it. xD I don';t use it super often but like Kaderin it pops off my nails within 24 hours if I don't have dried out crappy nails as my canvas (or wipe them down with vinegar to remove excess oils). xD I use Seche Vite for my quick-dry top coat simply because it is available locally for not too expensive a price. It may not be the best but it does the job.

@Sparx: Sounds awesome! Good luck with the thing! xD

[Kaderin Triste]

Personally, I have found Seche Vite to be the best...but then I haven't been able to actually even find any other quick-dry glossy top coats where I live. I can get matte top coat and glossy top coat, but not quick-dry.
And the other top coats I have tried are way too thin and tend to smudge stamp designs and...well, pretty much everything...badly.

Sparx: Whoops! Meant to respond and forgot...
That sounds really awesome! Good luck!
8D

[Damies]

Well if you order online and are willing to pay out the butt, there is HK Girl by Glisten and Glow which is really good quick dry and glossy, and then there is the one by Super Chic called Marvel Liquid Macro, I think, that is supposed to be super amazing. But due to shipping on top of the product price I just stick with Seche Vite. x nx

[Den]

Being a broke artist means I have to wait for holidays and birthdays to be able to feed my addictions... or I have to buy the cheap shit. which isn't always shit, surprisingly.

[SparX]

I've finished the base, now I want to blend and smooth the colors, add maybe 18 more levels of shading (XD) and the company logo at the bottom.
First picture is the original drawing by hand.

[Kaderin Triste]

Damies: But...I already pay out the butt for Seche Vite! D:

Den: Yeah...one of my favorite brands is Sinful Colors, which only costs $1.99 here.

Sparx: That is very...unique. O.O

[Damies]

Kaderin: Extra butt payments then!

Den: Oooor rack up so much debt that you can't afford food to become a literal starving artist! No... don't do that. I did that besides the artist part... -5/10 would not recommend. I have gotten to the point where I can't find much in the drug store nail polish aisle that I don't already have....

Sparx: That's gonna be a lot of shading. o no

[SparX]

Update on it! I just got home but this is what I did over the weekend

I now have to finish shading the leaves, the teeth, and erase some mishaps.
Also need to adjust some of the outlines on the black one. . . .

[SparX]

So today to do more stuff for my boss design wise I finally decided to download some paintbrushes for my gimp.
OMG
I CAN DO SO MUCH MORE HOW DID I NEVER KNOW

That whole thing was only made with paintbrushes, in ten layers XD
IS THIS WHAT I HAVE BEEN MISSING?!?!?

[Kaderin Triste]

PRETTY!!!
*grabby hands*
That sky...and the moon...and the silhouetted trees!

[SparX]

I also grabbed some water paintbrushes while I was there so I think Imma try to do one of those paintings that you usually see street spray painters spray, with the galaxy and the waterfall paradise and multiple planets in the sky

[Kaderin Triste]

So uh...I actually have one of those spray paint moonscapes...
One of my former friends wanted to learn to do them, and because I had been so nice and had kind of hung back with her at the fair (she had a bad back and it was really acting up) and kept her company, she let me take one that I liked for free.
I think her initial plan was to sell them online, but I don't know if she kept up with them at all.

[Damies]

I have not been around much I just realized ;n;

[Kaderin Triste]

Yeah....I try to check in this thread for new posts about every other day or so...but otherwise, haven't been very active.

[Den]

>.> I found a scattered holo nail polish at the dollar store today, for $1. Yes, I got it. I wasn't sure it was truly holo at the store, but I figured if I got it and it wasn't, it was still pretty and sparkly... So now that's three awesome polishes/topcoats I've found at the dollar store. I've got a quick dry topcoat, my one-coat-wonder black polish, and my scattered holo polish.

The brand of the polishes: LA Colors for the topcoat, Broadway Colors for the one-coat-wonder black, and Wet 'N Wild for the holo polish. :3