So, this is not perfect- not even close- but it's babby's first ever dotticure if you can believe it! I was definitely inspired by , which I traced back to .
I know we all have nail art that falls short of what we originally envisioned, and that definitely applies here. I was going for a reverse ombre fade: having the base color gradient go from light to dark, and then having the dotting embellishment "ombre" to go from dark to light the opposite way. I think my color choices were not cohesive enough to convey that, but the gradient underneath came out really well, although I failed to get a picture of that first!
Here are the polishes I used:
left to right: Butter London- Tramp Stamp, Nyx- Gold, Illamasqua- Gamma, Butter London- Yummy Mummy, OPI- My Vampire Is Buff, Zoya- Purity
The base color is Butter London- Yummy Mummy with Nyx- Gold sponged on top. I do like how the Yummy Mummy dots came out really sheer allowing some of Illamasqua- Gamma to show through! That wasn't intentional, but I like it!
I think they kinda look like abstract Turkey tails!
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I'm still really happy with it, though! Dots are so fun to make. I have a bunch of dotting tools, but not one big enough for the size of dots I wanted, so I stuck a sewing pin into the eraser of a pencil and used that.
In hindsight, my dots were a little too big. Especially on the pinkie nail, which is just a much smaller surface area to work with!
I will definitely be re-attempting this design at some point- hopefully with some more cohesive colors!
Happy Thanksgiving!
They're cute! I assumed they were turkey feathers. :)
ReplyThat was such a happy accident, as Bob Ross would say!
This is awesome, I love how it turned out!
ReplyWoop! I'm such a fan of your nail art, so this made my day. :)
I thought it was an abstract turkey at first! I like the outcome, especially the idea of overlapping dots! Maybe we should do a challenge to create fish nails this way!
ReplyThat would be cool to do fish scales like that- good idea! :brainstorms:
Oooh I like this a lot! i will be trying this with other colours sometime, thanks so much for the idea! :D
ReplyThank you and no problem! I'm going to experiment with it too!