First of all, If you haven't entered my giveaway, DO EET!!! Also, my special guest today will be "Random Cat Hair", and since he snuck into some of my pictures without my knowledge, he asks that you admire him and just kinda chuckle at his sneakiness.
Today's challenge was Violet/Purple nails, which meant that I was incredibly indecisive and didn't actually decide what I was doing until the very last second. I had actually planned on doing a checkerboard mani for these, but for some reason I really wanted to play with my dotting tools, so I went with a multi-purple mermaid scale dotticure instead. This is my first time attempting this design, and I'm fairly pleased with how it turned out. My ring finger is less than stellar, but since it's not noticable IRL, I didn't bother re-doing it. Not that I want you guys to have to see manicure wonkiness, but this mani was time consuming and by the time I was done there was no way I was re-doing anything that wasn't glaringly obvious! It was a lot of fun though, and I'll definitely be trying this with different colors in the future.
For this mani I started with a base of Color Show Iced Queen, a lovely soft yet vibrant lilac purple. hen I added the dots in a straight line using China Glaze VIII and Grape Juice, Petites Mystical, Essence Break Through and Iced Queen again. The trick here is to dot in between the row above where you're currently dotting, creating a fish-scale type effect. The hardest part was keeping my darned dots centered between the dots. I'm not good at much around 2 am, and that's when I chose to do my dotting, so a few of the lines are dotted like I just finished a plethora of jager bombs. ;)
I also don't know why my camera has decided that it really must make my hands look so lobstery, but okay. I'd rather have lobster hands and color accurate photos I suppose.
And now, without further adieu, I give you.....*drumroll please!* VIOLET NAILS (co-starring Random Cat Hair!)!!
Did you spot Random Cat Hair? That guy is a show-off, I swear. He lives to try and sneak into my photos.
Anyway, this didn't turn out half bad for a last minute change in mani plan and my first attempt at mermaid nails sans stamping. Would you rock this look?
Our next challenge will be Black and White Nails on Friday. I'm excited about that one since it's rare that I wear either color these days!
Don't forget to check out the rest of the Varnished Vixens Violet Manis! I guarantee they rock!
-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
- Robin Sparkles
Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!!
-Kimber
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