Day 11: POLKA DOTS

Wooo POLKA DOTS! Today's challenge theme gives me a chance to use my dotting tool for the first time. Yup- that's the extent of my dotting tool skills. I seriously give props to all of you amazing artists who can use a dotting tool to conjure up nail art. I think it's crazy insane. I'm sure I'd be ok at it if I practiced... but I'm just not patient enough.

For today's manicure, I was inspired by an old dress that I saw at my best friend's house. We were reminiscing looking at older pictures (we've known eachother since we were 5- that's 15 years, WHOA) and she saw one from our junior prom. Of course, that led to a twenty minute dress up sesh and it ended up in this brown dress with light blue polka dots that she actually wore to my sweet sixteen. I'd show you a picture from my sweet sixteen but my Facebook is acting up- darn. ;P I remember begging my parents for a big party and they insisted I didn't need one. Of course, I was able to convince them otherwise. Those were the days. 

I don't like how my fingers look in this one, but I wanted a good sunshiney picture
to show you the beautiful orange shimmer in SpaRitual Howl.

For this manicure I used two coats of SpaRitual Howl. I never understood why it was called Howl when I first got it, but I noticed the orange shimmer today. DUH, Halloween polish! Side note: I freaking love Halloween polish. It makes me feel so nostalgic and reminiscent of my childhood. Love, love, love! 

I'll definitely be wearing Howl again sometime soon because I loved it. I am always so impressed by the formula of SpaRitual polishes. A polish's formula can either make or break a manicure, and this polish went on like satin. It applied perfectly. I want more SpaRituals, but I'm just not crazy about a whole lot of their shades.

The dots and bow are done with China Glaze For Audrey and my dotting tool from Sephora. Of course, you don't need to actually buy a dotting tool. Polka dots can be made with toothpicks or even the head of a sewing needle.

I'm in love with this manicure. I don't want to take it off. It's so much fun and so girly! What do you think?

Deborah Lippmann Lavendar Glitter Mani

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Happy Monday! I'm almost done with finals so my week is looking up! I was excited to have some time to paint my nails this morning (I don't usually have time on Mondays) so I headed over to my stash for some color inspiration. I picked two that were near eachother that I thought would look good together:

Colors I Used: SpaRitual Ripple Effect, Deborah Lippmann Today Was A Fairytale

What do you think? Ripple Effect is an AMAZING purple cream... I absolutely love the formula and pigmentation of it. It's my first time using Today Was A Fairytale but I'm impressed. That's only one coat on my accent nail!

SpaRitual Ripple Effect & Lynnderella Love, Lace and Lilacs

Happy Sunday! I have a pretty manicure to show you all today! I'm a member of a polish group on Facebook, and we have secret swap gifts every season! We did one for Christmas and it was so much fun that we wanted to make it a regular thing. I just got my package, and I got some amazing polish! I don't have an excellent picture, but here are the polishes I got:

Joe Fresh Twilight (my first JFresh, and one I've wanted for a while!)

SpaRitual Howl

Essie Dive Bar

SpaRitual Ripple Effect

Lynnderella Love, Lace and Lilacs

(Thanks Jodi!)

I wanted to feature a couple of polishes that I received, so I paired Ripple Effect and Love, Lace and Lilacs, my third Lynn polish!