Dot Mani

The One With the Rose Manicure

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  Happy Friday to you all!!  To my friends on the East Coast, hope you are staying warm while the snow is falling.  I'm kind of jealous, I want a big snow storm.  Just one snow storm, then let it melt, and let Spring begin.  Unfortunately I don't see that happening.

Today I am sharing with you a re-creation of a rose manicure I did back in 2014.   This manicure is one of my all time favorite floral designs that I've ever done on the blog.  After it came up on my Facebook memories a few weeks ago, I have been wanting to re-create it.  Since Valentine's Day (ew) is right around the corner, I thought it would be an appropriate time to do so.

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • FingerPaints - Blushing With Excitement
  • Acrylics
For the life of me I cannot remember what polishes I used to create the roses.  The only thing that was done with acrylics on this manicure were the dots and the black outline on the roses.  Everything else was done with polish.  I think the green was Josie by Zoya.....I really need to learn to write these things down.



Anywho, Blushing With Excitement by FingerPaints is a gorgeous pink nude polish from the Limited Edition Ashley Neill Tipton Collection.  I don'tk now why it has taken me so long to use this beauty.  two coats and I had complete coverage.  It's such a gorgeous, delicate shade.  FingerPaints really needs to release something like this in their permanent collection.

What do you think?  Like this manicure?  Something you would try??

I have to stay, it still is one of my favorites.  So happy that I decided to re-create it!

Until next time, <3.

Dry Brush Mani

The One With the Gradient and the Dry Brush

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today?  The week has started and is in full swing and I'm already for it to be the weekend.  It will be here before we know it, followed by my most hated holiday, Valentine's Day!  Funny that my five year anniversary on the blog falls around the same time.  Clearly five years ago I was so angered over Valentine's Day that I thought blogging would be a good distraction.

Well, you know me, I'm not one for traditional Valentine's Day manicures.  I've decided to try to throw some pink and purple manicures together that are semi festive, but not totally in your face Valentine's.  Today's manicure is a purple to pink gradient with a black dry brush thrown over the top.

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • FingerPaints - Lavender Love
  • FingerPaints - Black Patent
  • OPI - Kiss Me I'm Brazilian
  • INM - Northern Lights
I am in love with gradient!  I started off with a base coat of Lavender Love by FingerPaints.  I used one coat since I knew I knew I was going to be doing a gradient it would cover any patchy areas.  Once the one coat was dried, I painted Lavender Love and Kiss Me I'm Brazilian on a make up sponge and dabbed it on my nails.  The colors blended quite nicely with one another, especially after I added the top coat of INM Northern Lights.



After Northern Lights was added, I went back through with Patent Black by FingerPaints and did a light dry brush across all my nails.  I was going to copy a look by mrswhite8907 on Instagram where she had this gradient then black on the outer edge, but it failed miserably.  I don't know how she was able to do her manicure so flawlessly.  Maybe one day I will try again.


One more bottle shot because I truly do love this manicure.  I think it's one of my favorite gradients of all time.  I don't know why I avoid doing the two color ones and always end up reverting to three.  Hmm.

What do you think?  Like this look? Fan of the simple dry brush?  


Until next time, <3.

Orly

The One With Round 33 of Bestie Twin Nails With Fashion Footing

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!!  How are you all doing today?  I'm getting sick, so you know it's going to be a great weekend because of that.  I was wondering when I was going to get the illness that's been going around work.  Oh well, what can you do?

Today is round 33 of Bestie Twin nails with Fashion Footing!  I know we just posted Round 32 last week, but we really wanted to do Super Bowl nails for tomorrow's big game.  Now, I wanted the Packer's to be in the Super Bowl so I'm not 100% thrilled with the game.  I will be routing for the Falcons though because I am not a fan of the Patriots, at all.

Let's take a look at our Super Bowl mani!  One photo since I accidentally destroyed them after taking this photo and didn't feel like re-doing them.


Colors Used:
  • Zoya - Hunter
  • Zoya - Louise
  • ORLY - White Tips
  • ORLY - Liquid Vinyl

It was nice using some of my lovely Zoya polishes which I rarely use since they aren't the colors I would typically gravitate towards.  Both Hunter and Louise cover completely in two coats.  I feel like I need to start using Louise a little more, it's such a pretty brown polish.  I bet it would be a pretty base for a floral manicure....hmmm.

What do you think?  Fan of this manicure?  Something you would wear for the Super Bowl??

Until next time, <3.

Monthly Mani Favs

The One With the January Monthly Mani Favs

9:00:00 AM

Good morning polished world!  I apologize for not having this post up yesterday on January 31st, but my days got away from me and I literally thought that today was the 31st.  Oh well, I guess maybe I'll make the first post of the new month the manicure favorites of the previous month??  We will see how the year goes....

Let's take a look at my favorite manicures for January!


  • The One with the Dry Brush Chevrons and Zoya Finley - I absolutely loved this chevron dry brush manicure.  Zoya Finley is one of my new favorite polishes.  Two coats of a purple scattered holo?  Yes please.  Everyone needs to get their hands on a bottle of this beauty.
  • The One With the Blue Gradient and Splatter Manicure - I think this is my favorite manicure of the month.  A blue gradient with a fun black and white splatter - you really cannot go wrong.  I'm in love with the new ORLY LaLa Land collection for Spring.  So many pretty pastels.  This blue was a perfect base for this gradient.
  • The One With Round 32 of Bestie Twin Nails With FashionFooting - I swear, every single time month my manicure with Amanda pops up on this list.  I loved this yellow, black, and taupe tape manicure.  Most certainly a color combination I never would have used if it weren't for the Pinterest pin that inspired us.  I need to start using more yellow.
  • The One With the Snowflakes and ORLY Celebrity Spotting - Last but not least, this beautiful snowflake manicure with ORLY Celebrity Spotting.  Such a gorgeous purple polish.  This manicure took me forever to do because the design was so intricate.  My OCD took over and I needed them to be absolutely perfect, so that's what took me so much longer.  Well worth it in the end.
What do you think?  Were any of these your favorite this month??

Here's to February!!!  

Until next time, <3.