Erica's Nails & More Nail Art Challenge!! Day 9!

Hellooooo!!!

It is the last day and I am cutting it close! 

Today's theme is to re-create a favourite & to honour Erica and her awesome challenge I chose her polka dot nails! I picked this mani because the colour combo seemed totally funky and awesome to me. Looks so cool!

Here is her mani: http://ericasnailsandmore.blogspot.ca/2013/02/february-nail-art-challenge-day-8.html#more

& Here is mine!

I didn't have any of the same colours as Erica but I think I chose similar ones! Color Club Chelsea Girl, Essence Wanna Be Your Sunhine & China Glaze Harvest Moon. CG Harvest Moon is my untried! I think Erica's look much prettier and neater than mine. My dots are just too darn big!!! Color combo is cool though! :)

Thanks for looking, and thanks for sticking with me through Erica's Nail Art Challenge. It was so much fun and I'd like to thank her for being so awesome! :) Thanks Erica!

Retro Polka Dot Nail Art :)

Herroh :)

I'm really needing to get called back to work and it is kind of depressing, so today I am in need for a happy manicure.. so I set out on a mission to create one!

I think I finally mastered doing polka dots on my nails. I absolutely love the way this manicure turned out! Usually my dots are misshaped and unequal and not in straight lines but I think the practice is paying off! It's not perfect but I like it a lot.

I started with two coats of China Glaze Stone Cold, a charcoal grey matte from the Capitol Colours Collection. Then I added polka dots in diagonal lines with a medium sized dotting tool, in order from bottom to top of my nail with:
Color Club Twiggie
China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy
China Glaze Sun Worshiper
Orly Glowstick
Color Club Warhol
Color Club Pucci-licious

I went over the dots twice to make sure they popped against the grey, and were nice, shiny and opaque. I like the way the shiny dots look against the matte background. Here are some pictures!

I think it looks retro and kind of funky, which I think is awesome. I like it a lot, it has certainly cheered me up! I hope you like it too :)

Color Club Twiggie - Swatch & Nail Art

Color Club Twiggie may be my favourite green of all time. Probably because its the most unique green on the planet! (or you know, in my collection). It manages to be a light shade of "soft or almost pastel" green... while being insanely and almost neon-ly bright. How?!?! Why?!?!?! I don't know. I just know that I love it and I will continue to wear it all of the time. I need a back up. Without topcoat it dries to a semi-matte finish, which is kinda cool too.

Twiggie came out with the Summer Poptastic collection set. It was my first Color Club set ever and I still love it so so so much. I wish Color Club was more available in Canada. I can find the sets long after release at Winners for 12.99 (Which don't get me wrong, I love) but I want more Color Clubs and online the sets retail for about four times what I pay at Winners, and single polishes for almost the price of a set! Thus... I must wait and hope I snag Color Club's at Winner's. This puts me out of the loop for awesome older collections unless I want to dig deep into my wallet.

End rant, now let's look at Twiggie. This is two coats plus topcoat.

In the sun!

Artificial Light

I decided I wanted to spice it up a bit so I added some a-symetrical dots on the tips with a medium sized dotting tool using OPI Jade is the new black, Orly Green Apple, and China Glaze Jolly Holly. On my ring finger i switched it up and did the dots on the bottom. I think it makes it look sort of funky and cool. I'm not very good at doing this but I think it turned out okay!

Have a nice day :)