Today's theme is Royal Blue. I was so excited when I first saw this because as you may or may not know, I love anything blue. Yes, I know that I say all the time I love anything mint, but blue is really where my heart lies. Maybe with purple as well. Regardless, I really love that I could go into my stash and re-visit some of my favorite polishes.
I have always thought of royal blue as a rich sailor blue. I decided to Google the color to see if I was on track, and I found that there are light and dark versions. Truly, depending on the person, it could be different. So I grabbed four bottles from my blue stash that were the most royal blue to me.
The first polish I selected is OPI - OPI Eurso...Euro. This is one of my favorite blue creams. I used it in my manicure I posted yesterday. To me, it's one of the darker royal blues. The next polish I selected is Zoya Dream. Looking at the bottle, it's a lot darker than it really is. When it's on the nail, to me, it's a royal blue. The holographic glitters throughout give it a new dimension which makes the polish not as dark as well. Truly a must have polish for anyone.
If you aren't willing to spend the $9 price tag for OPI or Zoya, drug store brands have you covered as well for royal blue. I next selected two Sinful Color polishes. The first is Midnight Blue, a gorgeous royal blue shimmer polish. I'm not even sure you can call it a true shimmer, but it's truly gorgeous. This was my first blue polish when I started my little hobby. The next bottle of Sinful Colors I selected is Endless Blue. This polish (from what I have read) is a dupe of Essie Butler Please and Sally Hansen Pacific Blue. When I Googled royal blue, both the Essie and Sally version popped up, so of course I grabbed this bottle. A gorgeous two coat polish that is perfect for Summer. Now the Essie is about $8.00 a bottle so you can't go wrong snagging this dupe or the Sally Hansen version for $1.99 or $2.99.
Since Midnight Blue is an oldie but goodie of mine, I decided to use it to create an easy and adorable nail art tutorial for today's post!
Colors Used
- Sinful Colors - Midnight Blue
- Orly - Instant Artist - White and Black*
- Zoya - Darcy*
*While I used these polishes, you could just as easily use a Sinful Color Black/White/Yellow polish. I used these ones because they were handy and my white had dried up.
Tutorial
- Paint your nail with a base coat (blues tend to stain) and then paint your nail with your favorite royal blue polish
- With a medium sized dotting tool and a white polish, create a dot flower. Do this by starting off with one dot at the top, then two off to the side, then two closer together at the bottom.
- Once the white dot flower is dried, with a black striper or a nail art brush and black polish, add a little line on each of the petals .
- With the medium sized dotting tool or smaller, use the yellow polish to create the yellow inside of the nail.
- With a small dotting tool and the white polish, fill in the empty spaces with little polka dots. Add a top coat and call it a day!
I have stepped out of my nail art zone today and decided to look for an outfit which I think that this look would look adorable with! I started out looking at Polyvore but kind of got confused with how to actually use the site. By next post, hopefully I'll have it down. Anyways, since I failed at Polyvore, I was going to just share my favorite polish and the tutorial, until I logged on to Pinterest. One of my old co-workers has been pinning royal and navy blue outfits all day long. It's so weird how it happened! I rarely talk to her and she has NO clue about today's post, and here I am logging in to see a full feed of just what I was looking for!
My mind was set on a white dress with some form of a blue cardigan. This is the look that my co-worker pinned.
**no source as it led to a .jpeg link and I did a Google Image search and turned up with tumblr/pinterest links**
Now, this isn't the exact dress I was looking for, but it totally works! When on Polyvore I was looking for blue dresses, but quickly decided against it because I feel like the blue of the nails would clash with the blue of the dress. The white dress, with a blue cardigan and blue nails just seems so fresh and perfect to me.
The dress I wish I could find is something Blair Waldorf-esque. In an episode of Gossip Girl, she wore the dress above which I found to be adorable. I imagine that dress in a sleeveless version with no tights and a blue cardigan, or keep the sleeves and have a royal blue bow and tights, and no cardigan. Maybe my fashion sense is totally wrong, but I think it would be cute and totally compliment the nail art design!
What do you think? Like the design? Like the outfit selections? Am I anywhere on base when it comes to fashion??
I love being a member of this group! I feel like I've come out of my comfort zone posting outfits to compliment a nail art look. Even though the second outfit you kind of have to imagine differently than pictured, I still tried! I hope to continue to expand my blog and maybe in other posts feature outfits that I think would be cute.
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