Vintage flowers using Milani Color Statement Polishes

Hey Monkeys! recently I showed you the info for the new line of Milani polishes called Color Statement. I'll have swatches for you over the next few days; there's so many, I've broken up the posts to make it easier to digest. I did some nail art though while I was playing with some of the colors... I ended up with a really bad color combo that looks like grandmother curtains or something vintage. I thought I'd share it anyways because I love the base color which is Mint Crush (a super pretty pale blue with green hints and a creme finish). I used my dotting tools and went to town using Mango Tango (darker and more red 'mango') and Tattle Teal (love this one so much right now too). Dotting flowers are easy to do, I've done them before but something just didn't work for me and this. The lacquers though were fantastic, super pigmented, applied like butter and dried fast. You can see the Tattle Teal even covers most of the Mango Tango where the dots over lap so that speaks to it's pigment. This collection is great, can't wait to show you guys the rest of the collection!

*samples provided* 

Brazilian Flowers

I have some flowers for you today using the OPI Brazil collection. I started with the great tealy green Amazon-Amazoff and for my accent finger I used Where'd Suzi's Man-go. The darker coral for most of the flower petals is Toucan Do It If You Try. These are super simple flowers to do with a dotting tool. The colors look kind of  vintage because they're so dark, but you could change it up and do the lighter colors in the Brazil collection and get a totally different look.

#33DC - Mani With Same Pattern, Various Colors

Today's challenge was to do a mani with the same pattern but using various colors. I sort of did this... I started with two coats of OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons (a great warm nude creme) and my accent finger is OPI Unfor-greta-bly Blue ( a deep blue shimmer), and used Sally Hansen Celeb City for the silver. I then just did a random dotticure. I figured since there are only 3 colors but different combinations, it was ok for the challenge. I like the combo of all this, the blue against the warm nude is a nice contrast with the shimmer and silver foil- lots of different finishes happening. Be sure to see everyone else's!

Bettina Polka Dots: Aqua and Cotton Candy

I had such high hopes for this mani but alas, you cannot win them all! I started with a base coat of Bettina Aqua for my middle and ring fingers and Cotton Candy for my index and little fingers. I did opposite colored dots on each and then it was all down hill... The inset picture shows China Glaze Fairy Dust which seemed like a good idea but the pink polka dots ended up lightening up and showing the aqua underneath so they turned like a tan.. I'm not sure if it was the Fairy Dust that made it worst or what but it looked fine before. I like corresponding dots and I'll do more dotticures for you soon :) 

Monkey See Monkey Do Monday: Gradient with Dots

Another Monkey See Monkey Do Monday mani! This time I copied Amber Did It! because her gradient dotting was awesome.  I'm still working on gradients but I did two coats of Zoya Arizona then sponged Milani Yellow Whiz (my go to yellow). Then I took my dotting tool and did dots with Zoya Arizona. The only thing I didn't really like about this mani is the bumps that the dots left on top of the already orange... but... I guess I could have stopped dotting. I could look at it as a texture for the top half of the nail I suppose. Either way, great idea and eas really fun to attempt. I'm still practicing so I'll probably have more gradients coming soon. Check out everyone else who participated in MSMD Mondays:

OPI: Planks Alot, stamping, dotting oh my!

I wore this mani for 5 days... a current record for me it seems :)

The base color on this is from OPI's Pirates Collection Planks Alot. It's a super pretty soft lilac purple creme.

 I did two coats and it dried relatively fast. I wanted to jazz the mani up but I wasn't quite sure how. I used China Glaze's Platinum, which I recently purchased, to check out it's stamping ability. I would say it's not as 'in your face' as OPI's Birthday Babe but it is quite great.

After I stamped with it, the design looked like it would "disappear" depending on what light it was in.  So I got out my dotting tool and OPI's Funky Dunkey and dotted over all the dots from the Konad... It took a while because I did both hands and had never used a dotting tool before, but I have to say it turned out really really fun! In some light/angles you could see the entire design and in others, you could only see the darker purple dots. So whatever angle you were looking at it, you always saw there was some sort of  nail art happening.. Mission accomplished!