I am so sorry that I stopped blogging for so long. I kind of had to, since I was away at camp! However, I am really glad to get back to blogging, especially because I only had time to paint my nails once the entire time that I was away!
I have been in sort of a polka dot obsession phase, in which I have been trying to incorporate polka dots into so many of my designs! My most recent pedicure involved polka dots, the manicure I am about to show is polka-dot themed, and my next pedicure will be very similar to the mani I have on.
The design I did today uses just two colors: light purple (Sephora by OPI Iris I Was Thinner) and black (Wet and Wild Black Creme--I finally ran out of Ebony Hates Chris, and the black creme has a much better formula and about the same drying time, even though EHC was a supposedly fast-drying polish). I painted the base using the purple, and I then did an accent finger with the black. Next, I used my beloved, tiny dotting tool to randomly dot the tips of my fingers with the black polish (except for the accent nail, which I dotted with the purple). I continued to dot down to the cuticle, spacing out the dots more and more as they got lower down on the nail.
And that's all there was to it! It was so simple, I'm going to paint the same design with a different color scheme on my toes later. You could also do a variation by dotting the nail with two different colors... perhaps black and white would work? It depends on what works best with your base color.
Here are the results:
My nails grew so much over the summer, but unfortunately all of them broke completely :( I've been trying to grow them back, but I think I like the length that they're at now... but I might grow them just a little bit more. However, I do really like the shape!
Also, for those of you who are on Tumblr, I might be getting an account to add on to this blog... the main posts will be up on here, but I will post pictures on the Tumblr!
I can't wait to catch up on all my missed blog posts! Keep reading for more nail designs!
'Til next time,
Caroline
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