Cat-eye gel, explained without the marketing
What's actually inside cat-eye polish, and why your finger angle changes the look.
"Cat-eye" gel has a thin band of shimmer that moves when you tilt your hand. There's no special technology behind it — just iron pigment and a magnet held over the wet polish for ten seconds. The reason it looks different on each finger is the angle you held the magnet, nothing more.
What's in the bottle.
A normal gel base, plus a tiny amount of iron oxide pigment. The pigment is what aligns under the magnet. The bottle isn't haunted and it isn't proprietary — anyone with a magnet shaped right can do this. The art is in the angle.
Four shades we keep around.
Soft pink, deep red, navy and a sage green. They all work the same; the shade just changes the personality.
— Lyah
