My skills are still needing improvement, both in the steady hand area and placement and whatnot of said dots...
this ain't my old high school pointillism assignment! Though it could be, and that's an idea I'm putting into my head..someday it will become real.
Anyway, here is the mani that I had to completely redo because I realized I was basically subconsciously copying off of a friend, and that's just lame! This is my cheap-o base coat (i think it's LA Colors..) plus two coats of Sally Hansen's HaN French White on most of my nails, and then for my accent nail I used Kleancolor Neon Aqua for my bases.
Next, I grabbed a dotting tool and started dottin'! I went over my white nails with mediumish sized blue dots in the Neon Aqua, and decided that could not be enough. I went back with a much smaller dotting tool and used Finger Paints I have no idea what red I used still.. and randomly put them in white spaces. I even made a little heart at the tip of my accent nail, by making two dots next to each other with a tool and then just drawing them together to make the heart bottom. I went over it all with a nice coat of Poshe, and viola!
Sorry about the messy clean up, I really thought I got it all and then my camera tells me otherwise...
I still haven't really swatched my Kleancolor mini collection, except for my blue accent nail above. From what I can tell from doing that one nail, it's a nice creme, opaque in two coats with a nice shiny finish. I don't have any full-sized Kleancolor polishes but the brush is surprisingly nice and wide for the little bottles. I will definitely be wearing these colors this summer!
Anyway, I'll post more about my even better Kleancolor dotted manis tomorrow!
I love it!!! Such a fresh, cool and simple mani! I love adding cute polka dots and transforming my polish. I seriously need to start experimenting with nail art. Thank you for following my blog, I really appreciate it! I've returned the favor :) xo.ya and Happy Polishing, Sheila
ReplyDeleteif you haven't tried dots, then you need to! it has to be the simplest and easiest form of nail art lol. I got my tools on amazon for about five dollars maybe. Five come in the pack, and they're double ended in varying sizes. I'm really gonna try to do some kind of super teeny tiny pointallism art on my nails
DeleteLooks really pretty! :)
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DeleteSo cute! I love the accent nail!
ReplyDeletethank you! my original idea was sort of a sailor theme, but that went out the window lol
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