Lotsa Dots

One Hundred, to be exact.

This week I gave myself a dotted manicure with my dotting tools. The colors were inspired by (and intended to match) the dress I wore to my nephew's confirmation on Sunday. You can see it in the background of my photos. My nails are painted an orange base with puple, white, and pink dots. The pink dots are hard to see in the photos, but they are there!

The base color is two coats of Wet n Wild fastdry "9.0.2.1.Orange". I probably could have used three coats, because in person, in the right light, you can still see some visible nail line. Oh, well. The white dots are Sinful Colors "Snow Me White, the purple dots are Rimmel London "Violet Metal", and the pink dots are from the E.L.F. Cosmetics "Metallic Neon" collection, but there's no name on the bottle of polish.

This was a fun and easy manicure. The dots are really not hard to do. If you don't have a dotting tool, there are a variety of things you probably have in your house you can use instead, like the head of a straight pin.

China Glaze and Rimmel London, a great combination!

I think I really put the "bling" into "My Nail Bling" this week. I did another angled tape manicure, using a bright, bright metallic pink called "Electric Pink" from Rimmel London, and one of China Glaze's new Prismatic Chroma Glitters, "Prism". I finished it off with light blue rhinestones.

I did have a little trouble with not waiting long enough for the polish to dry before I put the tape on, at least on my left pinky. I also had a couple spots where the tape left residue on my left hand, so I had to touch those up. Don't look at the photo too close!

 Rimmel London "Electric Pink" and China Glaze Prismatic Chroma Glitter "Prism"

First off, the China Glaze. China Glaze has 6 shades in their new Prismatic Chroma collection, Full Spectrum, Liquid Crystal, Optical Illusion, Polarized, Prism, and Ray-diant. Besides the Prism I used here, I also have Optical Illusion, which I'll show you another time. These are really gorgeous glitters. Of course, they feel pretty rough, but a good top coat will take care of that.

I picked up the Rimmel London a couple of months ago on clearance at K-Mart. I was really, really impressed with how nice the application of this color was. It has the wide, flat brush that I like (I know some people don't) and also a somewhat thin formula that prevents drag lines.


Also, one of the other blogs I follow is having a giveaway! The blog is called The Do It Yourself Lady, and she's giving away some Zoyas and some Deborah Lippmans. You can read more about it and enter at this link: http://doityourselflady.blogspot.com/2012/04/giveaway-time.html