Showing posts with label jumbo dots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jumbo dots. Show all posts

Saturday, 8 August 2015

Jacava Nail Polish - 3 Polishes, 3 Nail Art Looks

Hi Goddesses



Earlier in the week, I posted swatches of Drury Lane and Mount Row, which I had been sent for review by Jacava Nail Polish.  They also sent me Mont Blanc, a white, and there was just something irresistible about the 3 colours together, and I began seeing nail art patterns everywhere!  So here are 3 very simple looks that you can achieve.


1.  Jumbo Dot



I've got Drury Lane here on base, and I wanted to do something very simple to preserve the serenity of the colour.




I did a single jumbo dot with Mount Row.  To get a dot this size I usually use the end of a pen or pencil - I think I used my wax pencil for this!




I then did a smaller dot inside using Mont Blanc and my largest dotting tool.   Because the polish was new, I think it was still a little thin, and it didn't handle the intensity of Mount Row well, which is why the dot looks pale blue rather than white!




Super simple look.


2.  Floral Dotticure



This is also a really simple look to achieve.  Here, Mount Row is on base.




I then used Drury Lane and a medium dotting tool to create a circle of dots for my flower shape, before adding a centre dot with Mont Blanc.





The key to making this pattern work is to not just do complete flowers - you'll also want some half flowers around the edges.





Final touch - some small, random dots in Mont Blanc to take the edge off the blank spaces.



3.  Gradient



Oh how I loved this gradient!   The camera hasn't totally picked up the colours perfectly, but this was utterly gorgeous to wear.





I've used the colours in order, from palest to darkest, as I felt this gave the smoothest and most dramatic look.





This also looked great before I glossed it up.   





I loved this last look so much, I couldn't resist doing something else to it .... but I'll save that for another post.


Have a great Saturday!




Friday, 29 August 2014

Digit-al Dozen Dotting Days - Dots Within Dots Within Dots Within Dots ......

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






Thursday, 28 August 2014

Digit-al Dozen Dotting Days - Jumbo Dots!

Hi Goddesses


Today sees one of my favourite looks of this week – Jumbo Dots.




I’ve always loved it when I’ve seen super large dots in other people’s manis, but I’ve never succeeded in getting them to work myself.  Until now mwahahahahah.  My weapons of choice?  The eraser on the end of a pencil and the end of a Berol pen.  Whatever you choose, I’d just recommend you practice first.  You need a little puddle to blob in, and from there you need to make sure you get full coverage on your “tool”, but not so much that you leave an irregular shape.




This mani became an excuse to use a shitload of bright colours and have fun.  I do honestly think it might be one of the happiest manis I’ve ever done – just looking at it makes me smile.




On base I have Literary Lacquers Tesseract, for no other reason than I was swatching it at the time.  For my colours, I used –

Barry M Lemon Ice Cream
Rimmel Ultra Violet
OPI Hot & Spicy
OPI Strawberry Margarita
W7 Neon Green




I like the overlapping of the dots, and I’m curious to see what this looks like in blue – whether it looks oceanic or just blue lol.




Tomorrow, you can see how I took this mani further, and further again :)   Don’t forget to check out the other DD geniuses xx






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