NOTD– dotty for dots
Hello! This is just a quick little NOTD, featuring Barry M’s matte polish in Vanilla, which is strangely more of an off-white/lilac shade than anything remotely vanilla. I am a huggggge fan of Barry M so I was ultra excited to try these out. However when I painted my nails using just this polish they looked like this:
(As always do excuse my manly hands, rough cuticles and uneven nails..what can I say..I have little patience for pampering my hands ._. plus..it’s winter ok)
hmm. Slightly TOO plain and…flat you know? I dug out my wonderful ‘dotting tools’ purchased from Amazon: Set of 5 Multi Coloured Swirl Double Ended Nail Art Dotting/Marbleizing tools
for a ridiculously affordable price(LESS THAN £1.20!!), and I took out my most favourite shade of Nail polish EVER Barry M’s ‘cappuccino’ and got to work.
I say got to work as if this took my longer than 5 minutes, it’s the easiest thing to do! put a dollop of polish onto a card and dip the chosen dotter in..and get to dotting! I can’t think of a simpler way to jazz up your nails a little yourself, and really cannot recommend these tools enough.
I know I’m not at all creative enough to buy a nail brush set, but these 5, between them provide more than enough for anyone to get creative (check out my summer roses!)
Also the contrast between the matte and the normal looks sooo chic, I don’t think the camera QUITE picked up how chic it looks, but I assure you it looks a lot more professional than using two normal polishes haha.
When was the last time you jazzed up your mani?
(I’m seriously resisting the temptation to dollop glitter polish all over them…clearly I don’t do minimalism well)
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such a cute, simple way to do something exciting! x
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Thanks so much Rebecca! ahh I know ^.^ and the best part is it took such a short amount of time 😀 x
love this!!! dots are such an easy way to make a mani more cute. but i always get lopsided and uneven dots lol. have to practice.
Jenn
A Beautiful Zen
love this!!! dots are such an easy way to make a mani more cute. but i always get lopsided and uneven dots lol. have to practice.
Jenn
A Beautiful Zen
Thank you Jenn :')
it's ridiculously simple! haha awh don't worry dots CAN be random and uneven x) plus the smaller you make them the less easy it is to notice haha
Thank you Jenn :')
it's ridiculously simple! haha awh don't worry dots CAN be random and uneven x) plus the smaller you make them the less easy it is to notice haha
so cute.. and what a cute blog!! <3
N'awwh thankyou Safiyah!! Kind of fangirling here XD thankyou so much :')
ooo i like what you did with the dots. the thing that makes the nail art work for me is the combination of both neutral colors. genius! 🙂 the color theme looks like my current wallet that i love so much <3
Thankyou 😀 Yeah, it's so simple and I guess that's what makes it cute and effortless – because it really was! haha, n'awhh cute! I do have a kind of obsession with purples on my nails ^_^