31 Day Challenge, Day 11: Polka Dots!

For this mani, I wanted to do something a little different. I didn't want to do the standard polka dots. I took my inspiration from Erika over at Chloe's Nails, since I just love her matte and shiny manis. Hell, I love ALL her manis! Her site is one of the first that I found when I started on my nail polish fetish journey, and I still go to her site (as well as Manicure Addict and a few others) when I'm lacking inspiration. So this is my ode to Erika mani, and even though she might cringe at my lack of dotting skills, I'm pretty proud that I managed to make something that resembled polka dots! This is only my second time making dots of any kind using my dotting tools, so please forgive my not even close to uniform dots. I'm still learning.

For this mani I chose Wet N Wild Black Creme as my base, used Hard Candy Matte-ly in love to matte my black polish, and then dotted using the same Wet N Wild Black Creme polish. I love the contrast between matte and shiny! The pictures are not that awesome since I had to play with the lighting in order for the dots to show up, and my cuticles look horrid since I couldn't moisturize or the matte would disappear (you know what I mean). But enough babbling, let's get to some pics!

 I must work on my dotting skills! But overall I think it came out ok. What do you guys think?

Tonight I'll be working on stripes. Man, I am not good at stripes! I may do a tape mani just so my lines aren't all over the place! I wish I could freehand well, but my hand tends to be highly uncooperative when I try. It's like it knows I want my lines to be perfect, so it just purposely defies me! Funny since I can freehand on paper. I'm also having a hard time picking colors for stripes. I want to use colors I don't normally use, but I keep drifting back to blue. I am addicted to blue polish. I need an intervention.

Happy Polishing!
-Kimber