14 Days of Pink: Black Dot Funky French on glitter

This MAY be a little over the top for some, but the pink glitter is so pretty underneath!

Weeee! I just did 3 layers of Finger Paints Hue Left A Message? and then, using a dotting tool, I added dots and a french tip with black!

Finger Paints Hue Left A Message? and Pure Ice Black Rage (no pictured, dotting tool)

14 Days of PINK!: Daisies on pink

Another day, another post! Today's manicure is so cute! Who DOESN'T love pretty daisies?

This is so easy using a dotting tool! It looks so complicated but when you break it down, it's only dots! You can do this!

Pure Ice Super Star!, Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow and Pure Ice Love and dotting tool

Pink Wednesday: Fun With Dots: Pink, Brown and White

It's another Pink Wednesday! This pink is an o.g.  I've had it for years and years--so long that I cannot even remember when or why I got it. Here she is:

Neapolitan, anyone?

Fun, huh? I thought so. The brown is my first Finger Paint nail polish. It was part of my husband's foray into a Sally's beauty supply unsupervised.  He said, and I quote, "You like to wear brown, right?".  Yes, dear.  It really is a great polish though...ONE COAT! Shazam!

Pure Ice Super Star, Sally Hansen Rose Amore and Finger Paints Sketchy Character plus super cool dotting tool

Fun With Dots: Rainbow

This manicure was fast and easy. I LOVE these dotting tools my brother got me for Christmas. THESE are the ones I have.  My husband works all over the place and he happened upon a Sally's beauty supply shop. He called me to ask if I "needed" anything--um, yes! Finger Paints just came out with this amazing Special Effects collection that are flaky bits of pretty in a top coat. Apparently that sneaky husband of mine bought the whole collection for me, but he only gave me Asylum for now.  My birthday is just around the bend so I only have to wait a bit longer! But look how lovely:

Fun with Dots: rainbow

I'm not so crazy with how the yellow and green turned out, but eh. I'll just have to find the time to try again, right? Here's the line up of polishes I used:

Art Deco Pink, Yellow, Green, china glaze Purple Panic (I added this to my thumb nail), Pure Ice Black rage, Finger Paints Asylum, Dotting Tool.

And yes, somehow I didn't get the Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Blue Me Away in this photo. that was a lot of polish for one nail "didding"!

Stamping Sunday: Green

Christmas was good to me this year! My brother bought me these fun Mash stamping plates. I've never done stamping before (the most popular brand seems to be Konad, youtube it if you want to know more). I'm also a part of a super cool new group called Adventures in Stamping on Facebook. Every Sunday we have a challenge called Stamping Sunday.  Today's challenge was to stamp with a green color. TRICKY for a girl like me with about 20 polishes! But, here's the finished product, my very first stamp manicure!

Stamping Sunday: green

I didn't have a TRUE green (other than an Art Deco nail polish, which has a tiny brush). I used Wet N' Wild in Caribbean Frost. It's in the green family--ish. At any rate, I did a base coat of Pure Ice Super Star and then 2 coats of Pure Ice Excuse Me (the banana yellow color). Then it was stamping time! I used Mash plate 16. The Mash plates are my first plates ever. I have small nail beds so I thought I would be okay with their smaller all-over images, but they don't cover my nails so I'm on a quest for larger all over images. I thought the star alone was kind of plain so I used my dotting tools and added a few dots. So far, so good with stamping!

Pure Ice Excuse me, Pure Ice Super Star, Wet n wild Caribbean Frost, Mash plate 16 and dotting tol

Fun With Dots: White/Teal/Orange

Did everyone have a great holiday? I did! I got a lot of new polishes to show off too! Here's today's fun manicure:

Fun with Dots!

I did two coats of Nicole Do The Right Thing. I got these great Mash Dotting Tools for Christmas and couldn't wait to break them in! I used them using Nicole My Lifesaver (the teal color) and Pure Ice Super Star (white) to add the fun dots. Super easy.

Nicole by OPI The Right Thing, My Lifesaver, Pure Ice Super Star, Mash dotting tool

Pink Wednesday: Fun With Dots

I'm starting a new thing called Pink Wednesday. Every Wednesday (or thereabouts) I'll be posting pink polishes! Where did this come from? Mean Girls. I'm not mean--but from now on, on Wednesdays We Wear Pink!

Fun With Dots, China Glaze Purple Panic (Neon)

This isn't just ANY pink! This is pink of LOVE! One of my lovely friends online sent this to me. I LOVE it. I did a coat of white under it (to avoid any staining) and it went on great. Then I used my Sally Hansen Nail Art Pens to add some fun dots. Another friend (RevMo) sent me a black Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen so now I have both white and black! Love love love wearing polishes from friends!

China Glaze Purple Panic (Neon), Sally Hansen in white and black

Fun With Dots: White/Black/Grey

This was my first manicure with so. many. dots. It was kind of gutsy for not having a real dotting tool (like THESE).  Like most things in my life, I had to improvise to get what I wanted. In this case--it was bamboo skewer cut in half. Here are the colors I used:

 Pure Ice Kiss Me Here, L.A. Colors Art Deco and Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen.

The first step was 2 layers of Pure Ice Kiss Me Here. Part of me is so torn with grey nail polish. I love some tones of grey and others just make me feel like I have "morg fingers" or I look kind of...dead. I like this shade though. Next, I randomly dotted flowers on my fingers using a Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen. This stinkers are EXPENSIVE, but worth it for dots. It sort of just looks like a glorified white-out pen to me though. Then I took my rigged-up bamboo skewer and dipped it in my Art Deco black for the centers. Not too shabby!