It's all about the polish: dotting tool

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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Sea Siren skittlette - Motion of the Ocean and Bronzed Siren

I love mint green so much but hate that it turns my hands into red lobster hands :(. Still I love it enough to keep wearing it and enjoying it. Today's look uses Sea Siren Motion of the Ocean and Sea Siren Bronzed Siren. I used striping tape for the lines and a med small dotting tool for the flowers. Apart from having reddish hands I really loved this look.

Review and swatches of Motion of the Ocean and Bronzed Siren coming up next.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

L-O-V-E Valentine's Day Nail Art

Is it bad of me to say I really love this design? I do, I love the colours and am so pleased with how the letters turned out. I used a base of OPI My Vampire is Buff. I then taped my nails in the inverted letter shapes. Then is was simply a matter of grabbing my dotting tools and dotting with OPI Mod About You, OPI Sparrow me the Drama, OPI In the Cable carpool Lane and Zoya Burke. I really love My Vampire is buff, it's a perfect neutral colour for my skin tone.

Hope your week is going well, Tx.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

OPI - Keeping Suzi at Bay Dotticure

Today I have a simple but fun dotticure using OPI Keeping Suzi at Bay as a base colour. Polka dots are very simple to do but look fabulous on nails. There are so many options and styles you can try. If you don't own a set of dotting tools you really should, you can pick them up on eBay cheaply. I used Essie Bikini So Teeny and a white creme by EmilydeMolly for the dots.

Have a fabulous Thursday, Tx

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Aussie Nails Monday Spring

I'm a day behind but I still wanted to do a spring mani. I followed a tutorial by Nailed it that you can find here. This month my blog turns one and I've decided to do a few then and now manis. This look I used in October 2012, a couple of months after I started my nail addiction and it's interesting to see the difference. This time I used Essie Bobbin for Baubles as a background and China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy, Essie The More the Merrier and OPI No Room for the Blues for the flowers. I really like it and think it's a fun spring look. I also popped a matte top coat on and I just love it matte as well.

Hope this week is going well for you, Tx

Ten Little Nubs -

Nail Gun XS -

Marie’s Manicure Madhouse

Shatter Me Claire

A Polished Prance

Shades of Phoenix

The Epitome of Superficiality

Lacquer Dreams

NananaisNails

Enamoured With Enamel

Adelle1985

Kelly's Kolors

Jas’ Blingtastic Nails

It's All About The Polish

Caylah

Tash

Tracy

Kate

Drama Queen Nails

Friday, August 16, 2013

Essie The More the Merrier and Bobbing for Baubles

I'm back :). A huge thank you to the ladies that helped fill in for me. I hoped you enjoyed their posts. I am still working with my Cinderella, which limits the amount of nail art I can achieve. My swatch nails are growing so hopefully soon I can change back.

For this look I wore one of my favourite Essie's Bobbing for Baubles, it's such a gorgeous deep dusky blue. I teamed it with the new Essie The More the Merrier and I love how the colours work together.

It's already Friday and even more mind blowing it's half way through August!! Where has this year gone?!? Hope you've all had a fantastic week, T

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Dotticure

I do love polka dots!! I also really like this gorgeous peaches n' cream colour by Picture Polish. The perfect match for me was black, white and silver and I love how it all came together. Dots are really one of the simplest nail arts and there offer so many options. A dotting tool is a must have and you can usually pick up a set very cheaply on ebay. The silver which is Trixie by Zoya really adds a nice pop to the look.

Sorry I've missed a day and am not very verbose, I have a migraine that just won't go away. It gets a little better and allows me out of bed, then slams me down again. I am super excited about the royal baby and hope to do a royal baby mani soon :)

Have a fabulous Wednesday, Tx

Saturday, July 20, 2013

butter London - Poole flowers

Today I have a simple but cute nail art. The green is butter London Poole and white is Nubar White tip. Flowers are easily made with a dotting tool and I added Zoya Trixie for a silver pop. It is really easy to do and it looks great!

Original idea seen on Instagram @sparkleandpolish

Have a great Saturday! Tx

Sunday, June 9, 2013

EmilydeMolly - Ivory Tower

This is another pretty holo from EmilydeMolly. The sun isn't shining here so I could only capture half of it's awesomeness. I love glitters, I love colour and you know I love green but I have to confess this is a really 'me' look. This is something I could never get sick of wearing and I just love neutrals and golds. They are palette cleansing on the nails but also always my first choice for eye makeup. I guess there's no surprise if I tell you my inside decor is neutrals into browns, a touch of green and a touch of gold. Unfortunately it's Aussie Nail Monday tomorrow so I'll have to change it, not too much of a burden as I do love to do Aussie Nail Mondays. Tomorrow's theme though pushes me out of my comfort zone so make sure to pop back and see.

Ok so all nails but the ring are EmilydeMolly Ivory Tower, my ring is OPI My Vampire is Buff dotted with Ivory Tower.

Enjoy your Sunday - Tx

Monday, June 3, 2013

AN Monday - hearts

For this week's theme hearts, I didn't want to go for a heart overload so chose this look where the hearts are subtle. I used Zoya Micky which is a gorgeous new creme polish by Zoya. I'm not usually a pink girl but this shade is beautiful and on the cusp of being a coral. For the black I used butter London Union Jack Black. The hearts were made with both a dotting tool and a nail art brush.

I love how it turned out :)

Hard to believe it's Monday again, hope you have a great week!

Ten Little Nubs -

Nail Gun XS -

Marie’s Manicure Madhouse

Shatter Me Claire

A Polished Prance

Shades of Phoenix

The Epitome of Superficiality

Lacquer Dreams

NananaisNails

Enamoured With Enamel

Adelle1985

Kelly's Kolors

Jas’ Blingtastic Nails

It's All About The Polish

Caylah

Tash

Tracy

Kate

Drama Queen Nails

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Zoya Imperial Russia

Today I finally got to try one of my Mother's Day pressies Imperial Russia from the Zoya Zang Toi collection. Oh my it's so so pretty!! I added photos at the bottom of it on it's own to show just how pretty. I love purple and gold so chose to team it with Zoya Jules. I also adore polka dots so love how this came out.

Hope you're enjoying a fabulous day!

Monday, April 22, 2013

Aussie Nails Monday - Flowers Zoya Paloma

This look is based on a look by Oliveview Fashion, I just loved it and loved the 3d effect of the design. I don't think mine shows the depth as well, but for next time I know to do more flowers and overlap them more. It was a little painful to do, lots of time waiting for jelly to dry or dots to dry.

So I began with one coat of a jelly Zoya'a Paloma, I did two flowers with OPI Mod About You and waited for them to dry. Next stage I did the same thing but with only one flower, this is where I should have done more. I continued until I had the above design. I think it's 5 coats, so lots of waiting though the wait time on the jelly was less than I thought it would be.

In the end I still really like the look and know how to improve next time :)