Canadutch
I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend! Here in the Netherlands we had a four day weekend and it was HOT! Reaching temperatures over 25 degrees every day. I spent a lot of time here:
Out on my balcony, that I wish was bigger but hey at least I have one! It gets SO hot out there in the afternoon I always have to get out my umbrellas to give me a break from the heat. The animals love it though, our cat and two dogs spend a lot of time out there basking and sleeping in the sun.
Between Easter and this beautiful weather screaming SUMMMMMERRRR at me, I needed a colorful and bright mani.
It was an easy choice due to my limited stash, these were really the only really colorful colors I had. I first did a mani with each finger a different color and then dots of each other color on it but it looked horrid so I removed it. It looks much better with the white dots.
I’m still wearing this because I just think it’s SO cute. I guess I’ll have to remove it soon but I will be doing something similar to replace it. I’m still trying to get my full nail Essence stamps to work, maybe I’ll finally be able to get some stripes on there if I figure it out. I’ve already gone through an entire bottle of the stampy polish just from trying to get a full nail design onto the stamp.
Polishes used: Orange / Blue / Pink are Miss Sporty, Purple #33 by Etos, Green Maybelline MNY #753, White spots are Essence white stampy polish.
Tags Blue Dots Easter Essence Etos Green Maybelline Miss Sporty Orange Pink Purple
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I love this mani very colorful! I have given you the Kreativ award. http://shadowsnails.blogspot.com/2011/05/award.html
Oh it was REALLY easy, I don't have a proper dotting tool either and didn't want to buy one.
I took 2 different sized stick pins with the plastic ball ends, cut the pin part in half and then stuck them each into the erasers on the end of pencils! Voila, dotting tool!
Then I just put a few drops of the white paint on the back of a metal stamp plate, dabbed the round head of the pin in the paint and then dabbed it on my nail.
It was super easy and didn't cost me a thing as I had the materials here at home :)
What did you use to make the dots? Was that from a stamp or a dotting tool or something else altogether? I love the look of dots but I'm awful at stamping and trying to figure out how to do them nicely on a VERY limited budget. ;)