Purple Polka-Dot Perfection

I'm Back! Forgive my brief absence from the blogosphere, my summer has been quite busy filled with road trips, music festival adventures, & well work... but I all that aside I still had my blog on my mind. I'm still debating doing a post about my adventures at Electric Forest, but I'm thinking I should just leave it a mystery & force you curious cats to venture out there next summer to join me! (If you really wanna know what went down, gimme a call and we can chat!) All you need to know is that it was worth it. 

 Ok back to business...

What you need:

 Essie play date w Funky Fingers Sand & Stilettos w Sally Hansen Diamond Flash w Funky Fingers Paparazzi w Essie no more film w Bobby pins

So I started with a mixed accent on each hand. On my left hand I have play date as the accent color & on my right I have no more film as the accent color.

Then using the bobby pin dotting tool technique, found here, I dotted my accent nails. I paired play date with  Sand & Stilettos  & no more film with Paparazzi. 

 For the pairings, I found that Paparazzi & no more film both had indigo & blue undertones while play date & Sand & Stilettos both carried a pink shade. 

You are going to to want to use one side of the bobby pin for each nail. The lacquer will eat away at the plastic part of the bobby pin after awhile, so in order to keep your dots nice & round & avoid asymmetrical shapes I would alternate bobby pin ends for each nail.

Then the glitter got the best of me (which it always does) & I put a coat on each nail using the same pairings. 

Then I topped it off with Sally Hansen Diamond Flash Top Coat. For the dotted nails you will probably want to do a double layer of top coat to avoid any weird textures... eek.

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Cheshire Cheetah

Here is a purple spin on a cheetah print nail. I felt like Katy Perry fell down the rabbit hole with this nail look. ;) Enjoy.

What you need:

Funky Fingers Cheshire w Sally Hansen Insta-Dri w Essie to buy or not to buy wFunky Fingers Paparazzi wVery small detailing paintbrush

Start with two coats of Essie to buy or not to buy

I don't know what is "not to buy" about this polish it's spectacular. From afar it appears to be a nice lilac purple, but once you get up close and personal you can see that there tiny specks of magenta and blue glitter in the polish. Hard to catch on camera but amazing to the naked eye!

On my accent nails I  just added a few random dots of Funky Fingers Paparazzi, Make sure you leave some space in between.

Using Funky Fingers Cheshire, take your paintbrush and with very little polish begin dotting some 'C' shapes around the Paparazzi dots.

 You can make them look like (parenthesis) or just do one C shape per dot. Mix it up. You can also make random dots to fill in any space that looks empty. 

(tip, don't load the paint brush with lots of polish, less is more, using a stippling technique to control the shape and size of the C's) 

Finally top it off with your favorite quick dry top coat & voilà! The Cheshire cheetah.

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