Overlapping Dotticure

Hey everyone!

Today I have a simple dotticure to show you! I really like how this design is so simple and eye catching at the same time. The effect of the dots overlapping really make it a cool design.

For this design, I used the biggest sized dot of the dotting tool. If you want smaller dots, you can use the smaller dot sizes to make it smaller. 

I used Sinful Colors Amethyst, Wet n Wild's French White Creme, and Sinful Colors Creme Pink for this design. You can use any and as many colors as you want.  

First, I placed a dot of polish onto a scrap piece of paper. Next, I dipped the dotting tool into the polish and made a row of dots along the nail. With the next line of dots, I placed the line slightly over the first line of dots. I continued doing this for the other colors until the nail was filled. 

I didn't use a base color for these nails, but you can paint your nails first and then do the dots if you'd like.

I love this design so much. I think this looks great on short nails, but it would look good on long nails as well. It's so eye catching, it kind of looks like tie dye a little bit.

What do you think of this design? 

Thanks for reading!

Halloween Mix n Match Nails

Hello everyone!

I don't really do holiday nails normally, but I decided to do some for Halloween. Halloween is probably one of my favorite holidays after Thanksgiving and Christmas. I really didn't want to do just one design on all my nails due to me being indecisive, so I decided to just do a mix n match of different designs.

I'm going to apologize in advance for the photos with my thumb in it. The thermostat at my house isn't working at the moment and it's making my wrist tendinitis act up due to no heat, so my poses with the thumb look so awkward lol.

For these Halloween nails, I did a variety of designs. 

For the pinky, I was inspired by candy corn. First, I placed two pieces of striping tape onto my nail. With my detail brush, I painted Wet n Wild's French White Creme, Sally Hansen's Sunkissed, and Sally Hansen's Mellow Yellow in the spaces. Once all the spaces were painted, I carefully took off the striping tape.

For the accent nail, I made a sugar skull. I first painted  one thick coat of Wet n Wild's French Creme. Next, I put two drops of top coat on the nail to stick the gems on for the eyes. With my detail brush, I made two lines for the nose and a long black circle for the mouth with Sinful Colors Black on Black. Going back with the detail brush, I made white squares inside the mouth for the teeth with Wet n Wild's French White Creme. For the dots around the eyes, I used a small dotting tool and created dots with Sinful Colors Pink Forever and Sinful Colors Why Not. I finished it off with three small dots below the eyes using Sinful Colors Black on Black.

 For the middle finger, I was inspired by The Nailasaurus's Halloween Patchwork nails. I first painted two coats of Sally Hansen's Sunkissed. With a detail brush, I sectioned and filled in the different sections with different colors (Sinful Colors Pistache, Sinful Colors Amethyst, and Wet n Wild's French White Creme). Finally, I used Sinful Colors Black on Black to make the patchwork detail.

For the pointer, I did a simple dotticure. I painted my nail one coat of Sinful Colors Amethyst. With a dotting tool, I created dots using Sally Hansen's Sunkissed, Sinful Colors Pistache, Wet n Wild's French White Creme, and Sinful Colors Amethyst.

For the thumb, I created blood drips. I painted my nail one coat of Wet n Wild's French White Creme. With a dotting tool, I made four dots and connected them to the top of the nail making blood drips using Wet n Wild's I Red a Good Book. Finally, I made big dots at the tip of the drip.

I finished off all the designs with Sally Hansen's Insta-Dri top coat.

I really like these nails! They were fun to do. My favorite is the candy corn, sugar skull, and the blood drips.

What design do you like best? Any plans for Halloween?

Thanks for reading!

31DC2013 Day 11: Polka Dots

Hey everyone!

Today is going to be post heavy because I'm in the process of catching up to where I need to be in the challenge. I'm posting the six prompts that I missed during the time that I was gone. 

The 11th was actually my birthday and I did have a nail design for that day, but when I was over at my girlfriend's place, there was no internet. Plus, by the time I came back home, they were chipping pretty bad.

I did another polka dot design which was very simple to do for today. I went for a mint chocolate chip theme with the colors, even though I really don't like the ice cream lol.

Colors Used:
Wet n Wild's I Need a Refresh-mint
Zoya's Angelina

For this design, I first painted two coats of Wet n Wild's I Need a Refresh-mint. With a dotting tool, I made dots on the nails. They don't have to be perfect. That's the thing that I love about polka dots is that you can mess up, but it still will look good.

I'm so glad to be back and blogging! Even though it was four days, I missed it a lot. I don't even mind that I have to do all these designs and play catch up right now.

What do you think of this design? Next one coming up is stripes! 

Abstract Dotticure

Good afternoon everyone!

 I have a fun and easy nail art design that you only have to use the bottle brushes for!

I was working on trying completing a nail wheel yesterday to practice some designs when I did this one. I was just doing something random and testing out colors, but it turned out to be a really pretty and unique design. I call it "Abstract Dotticure". It looks like it should be a design on a nice skirt or something.

Basically, all you do is dab the colors onto the nail with the tip of the brush. You also want to be a little messy with it, it doesn't have to be perfect. 

In my opinion, it looks better when you do small dabs instead of big ones, but the big dabs look just as cool too. Also, it doesn't really matter what order you dab the colors on, but it will kind of matter when you're trying to finish it off. Some nails will look like they have an even amount of each color on the nail and others won't. It's really up to the person though and how they want it to look!

Colors Used:

Sinful Colors Energetic Red

Wet n Wild's French White Creme

Sinful Colors Pistache 

Sinful Colors Pink Forever

Color Club's Take Me to Your Chateau

What do you all think of this design? Liking the abstract look?

Until next time!