Piercing Cat Eye nails tutorial

Do you want an excuse to pull out those magnetics that are so on vogue right now but you kind of don't want a basic manicure with just the cat eye effect? Why don't you make literal cat eye nails with cat eye polish? I will teach you how to do it, it's very easy and you can create more realistic looks or more outlandish ones. Sauron's eye, anyone?

 

Please understand that due to the way I present my swatch sticks for the photos, this doesn't look... very feline. But imagine it sideways and you'll see what I see. This is very customizable as you basically only need a magnetic for the eye, and then black. You can also add a third colour for the fur of the cat, or the effect you're going for, around. But I decided to go with a black cat anyways. The shades I've used are:

As I said, you only need a magnetic and the black. Mine are from Holo Taco:

• Holo Taco's Menchie Cat Eye
• Holo Taco's One Coat Black

I totally feel like using a shade called after an actual cat's eye just adds to the concept, that's why I chose this one. Also it's a light sage green, in contrast with more saturated shades I own as other magnetics. I should expand my magnetic catalogue but honestly I am quite lazy to use them personally. And I'm not good at them, anyways.

First, you want to do basically a basic magnetic manicure with the cat eye style of magnetization. I personally prefer to build the polish to opacity and magnetize only the final coat, because ten fingers and waiting a minute there for each nail and coat? Not happening, let me tell you that.

Make sure you put your magnetic stripe on the direction you want the cat eye to look at. I made mine horizontal, instead of the regular diagonal, for this nail look.

 

Then, we will define the shape of the eye. I draw two curved shapes, from the center of the cuticle from the center of the free edge. Fill the outer part of it with the polish:

In my opinion, this is just a nice framing for the eye, specially to trick the brain into this extreme shape. If your nail shape is more on the pointy side, you might want to go extremely thin with your lines here, like the cartoon nails that were a trend several years ago. The final step is close, you will need to draw a thin line in the middle of your eye, don't fully cover the magnetic stripe but paint it there:

 

And that would be the final look. There are many variations of this, like adding a white dot to express shine or just go for more extreme colour combinations or pupil shapes. I think that with a red background, this could totally go hard as Sauron's eye from Lord of the Rings, for example.

Thanks for reading! This is one of my main ways of wearing magnetic nail polishes when I want something fast to do to them without wearing them on their own and I think it's just perfect for this season! I don't really succeed at the velvet or aura or whatever they call it nowadays style of magnetization of bringing all the pigment to the top, and honestly a horseshoe magnet for just literally five polishes in my collection that are magnetic is overkill, so... I don't know! Maybe I need more magnetics!