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.

On Pinterest? Repin here!

Reverse Glitter French

Hey! So if you are one of my 'real life' friends I posted this on my facebook not so long ago, I decided to revisit it, to show you exactly how I got this look.

What you need:

Funky Fingers - Sand & Stilettos w Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure  - Commander in Chic 

wFunky Fingers Cheshire  w Sally Hansen Insta-Dri w paint brush 1/8"

Start with one coat of Funky Fingers - Cheshire

Next you want to add 1 coat of Sally Hansen Commander in Chic; paint about 1 cm  away from your cuticle to reveal the base coat.

While you let that 2nd coat dry, you are going to want to prep your paint brush. 

Start by painting on a small amount of glitter polish to the end of your brush,

 Press the paint brush together using your fingers so you can create a flat, small surface. 

(you will get a little glitter polish on your fingers but you can always wipe away with remover later) 

Let the paint brush dry (glitter polish usually dries super fast anyway) & you will have a semi stiff brush tip which will help you control where the glitter is going to go.

When your ready, begin by painting the glitter polish to you brush just along the paint brush tip. 

(Don't dip your paint brush into to your polish bottle! This will give you too much polish to control.)

Gently dab the glitter polish along the Cheshire line that you created earlier (you may have to reload your paint brush once or twice with more polish for each nail.)

Finally add on your top coat all over the nail including the glitter portion. 

& there you have it, the reverse glitter french! 

On Pinterest? Repin this look Here!

My original inspiration for this came from 'Love Maegan's blog, you can see how she did it, if you click here, I however changed it up a little bit, mainly because Martha Steward Glitter Pens are wayyyy over priced and lets face it, I'm broke as a joke.