Aqua Dotticure

Hi! Today I bring you my first nail post!

This weekend I did my mom's nails. She's really traditional and doesn´t like too much color on her nails, but she saw what I had done on mine and asked for the same design. I was sooo nervous cause she's a tough customer. But it turned out alright, she hasn't taken the polish off yet :).

This is how her nails look now!

For the base I used Essie Chinchilly. For the dots: Essie Mint & Candy Apple, Essie Turquoise and Caicos, Sally Hansen White On and Revlon Nail Art Expressionist Monet Monet. And Sally Hansen Hard As Nails as base and top coat.

(Ooops! Forgot the white one :P)

From Revlon I just used the kind of yellowish one, the green side was a little darker than the rest (and too similar to Essie's Turquoise and Caicos). (By the way, I love this Revlon polishes, they have two colors and one of their brushes has a smaller tip brush for drawing lines or details easily)

 I'm still waiting for my dotting tools to arrive in the mail, so I had to make my own tools for this mani... They work great, actually, haha.

 I alternated the colors of the bigger dots on each nail so they wouldn't all look the same. I didn't do this with White On because I thought it would give the nail a different color scheme from the rest; I used that only for the smallest dots to bring some "brightness" to the nail.

I had some trouble applying the base. It wasn't as fluid as I would've liked. When this happens I apply two coats of base coat to minimize the irregularities on the surface of the nail, but I didn't have much time on saturday...

 

Some detail on the thumb...

Pinky finger!

And this (below) were how mine looked. Usually I can't get my nails to grow that long.

That'll be my first mani on the blog. Hope you enjoyed it! Feel free to comment your suggestions or reactions to this! :D Sorry if the pictures aren't the greatest quality, I'm still getting the hang of this...

Thanks for stopping by!

Andrea :D