Rose Gold Cherries nails

Coffin · Cherries

Doable at home

Rose Gold with Milk Bath cherries hanging in twos, stems joined at the top.

3 bottles: Rose Gold, Milk Bath and Copper. Rose Gold and Milk Bath are close in tone, so the design is tonal rather than graphic. It shows up in daylight and softens indoors. The bottles are not all the same finish (shimmer and sheer), so the pattern picks up light differently from the ground.

On a coffin shape there is more flat nail than almost anywhere else on the site, so a dense or textured finish has room to be seen.

Make it yours

Pick a part of the nail, then a shade
Base: Rose Gold · Shimmer Open the bottle

Bottles for this nail

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What you need

Base colour cured
Petal paint detail brush
Fine liner centres and stems

How to paint Rose Gold Cherries nails

  1. 1 Buff, dehydrate and base coat, then cure. Two coats of Rose Gold, floated on so the particles stay lying flat, and cure hard.
  2. 2 Two Milk Bath dots per pair, then join them with a fine Copper stem in one stroke.
  3. 3 Gloss top coat, cure, then cuticle oil once it is out of the lamp.

Questions about Rose Gold Cherries

  • Is Rose Gold Cherries hard to do at home?

    Yes, with a steady hand. The motif is freehand, so the first nail is usually the worst one. Budget around 45 minutes for a full set, and three colours means three chances for something to bleed, so cure between each one rather than working wet on wet.

  • What polish do I need for Rose Gold Cherries?

    3 bottles: Rose Gold (shimmer), Milk Bath (sheer) and Copper (shimmer). Plus a base coat and a gloss top coat, which every design here assumes you already have.

  • Does Rose Gold Cherries work on short nails?

    Coffin is the one shape here that genuinely needs length. On a short nail there is not enough free edge to cut square, and it will read as a squoval instead.

  • Do I need a UV lamp for Rose Gold Cherries?

    Yes. Rose Gold and Copper only work as a gel — the effect depends on rubbing or setting the finish into a cured tacky layer, which air-dry polish never gives you.

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