Mini Polka

I have played around with my dotting tools quite a bit, and decided to try a slightly more difficult polka dotted pattern (just smaller dots really). I selected black as a basecoat and paired it with a soft pink, as I wanted it to almost appear as black and white, but maybe a little warmer in colour. Please ignore my cuticle on my thumb, TERRIBLE!

I liked how this mani reminded me of close up pictures of fly's eyes, (weird huh?). 
It was difficult to keep the polka dots uniform, and I think occasionally I ended up with slightly larger dots, as you can probably see in the pictures. Despite that, I loved this mani, I think it was quite eye catching from far away, and close up quite impressive. It wasn't too difficult to do, but required quite a bit of time and concentration as well as a steady hand! Well worth the effort though!

Thanks for reading!

M

Geo

This is my first attempt at using taping to create a geometric multicoloured pattern. It was a slow and quite difficult process, and I can’t say that I loved the outcome, but I am most definitely going to be trying it again, as I know this mani has lots of potential.

As with all manis I do that require taping, I use just regular tape that I cut into strips, as I have yet to find a nail tape that is not too sticky (I feel like really sticky tape tends to mess up manis I do with them).  However, this means that often times the width of any stripes are not quite the same, so I am still on the hunt for perfect nail tape that doesn’t hold on too strong.

Anyway, I do quite like the finished result, I like the colours I put together here, and I am excited to try this again with a new colour palette.

Thanks for reading!

M