Hi Goddesses - and Happy Birthday to Meeeeeeeeeeee
Yesterday I posted a Jumbo Dots mani full of happy colours. It was one of those manis where I had to talk to myself (honestly) – do I leave it as is, or do I carry on and do what I set out to do?
Well,
I carried on. The only difference
between this conversation and the identical ones I’ve had over the years, is
that I’m a cleverer pup now and I take photos before I carry on lol. You know it’s wise! I even took photos at the half-way stage of the dots within dotting ... you can never be too careful!
So
this mani was always supposed to be a dots within dots extravaganza. It’s only because I loved the jumbo stage so
much that that became a separate post, PLUS you don’t get to see a mani like
that very often.
So
I started putting dots inside my dots, and then more dots inside my dots that
were inside my dots lol. You need to
get the colour balance right, so that you’re not adding a central dot too close
to a jumbo dot in the same colour, but for the most part, I think I got it
right.
My
only difficulty with this mani came where I’d overlapped my dots. Some were fine, but with others, I had to add
half a dot or ¾ of a dot, and it bugs me that the middle finger is a bit wonky.
That
said, I still absolutely love it. A
reminder of your colours –
On
base I have Literary Lacquers Tesseract, then
Barry
M Lemon Ice Cream
Rimmel
Ultra Violet
OPI
Hot & Spicy
OPI
Strawberry Margarita
W7
Neon Green
I
added matte top coat quite early on in the re-dotting process. Everything was just too damn shiny lol, and
in photos, you really couldn’t see all the marvellous that was going down.
Plus,
doesn’t the matte make it look all sherbert-y?
Sweet shop goodness.
I
hope you’ve enjoyed this extra Digit-al Dozen Week. I have a couple more dotty manis that didn’t
make it into this week – I don’t know yet whether to group them together and do
another week in September, or just slowly release them into blogland.
Don’t
forget to check out the other DD geniuses xx
