The Story
Weather,
in a black sky
Black on a short nail is usually flat, and flat black reads as a hole rather than a colour. The atelier mixes a magnetic pearl into it and pulls the powder with a magnet while the coat is still soft, so the black keeps a bright seam running through it — the trick that makes a cat's eye, used here to make a galaxy. The planets are then drawn where the seam is brightest, so they appear lit from within rather than printed on top.
Each coffret carries thirty tips, not ten, cut across a broad range of widths. That is deliberate: a short squared shape is unforgiving, and the difference between a tip that sits down and one that lifts is often half a millimetre. With thirty in front of you, you find that half millimetre on every finger, wear your ten, and still have two more skies in the box — one for later, and one for whoever asks where you got them.
A sky is more convincing when there is enough of it to lose some.