This week the challenge is Purple + Gray. I kept my manicure very simple as inspiration is in very short supply lately. Since you can hardly ever go wrong with a dotticure, that's what I did:
I started out by painting my thumb, index and pinky with a gorgeous medium-dark dusty purple with small red glitters and tiny holo sparkles: LCLVernis La Cigaline Coquine. It is a bit sheer to allow the glitters to peek through, so I needed two coats on my pinky and three on my index and thumb. It has a great formula so I didn't mind the three coats one bit :)
Next came my middle finger in three coats of Cirque Colors Chainmail, a gray jelly base filled with steel-gray micro glitters and some black specks thrown in for good measure. It dries to a gritty, almost PixieDust textured finish... and since it's an old Cirque Colors polish it smells like lavender ❤️
The accent nail was done in two coats of white OPI Angel with a Leadfoot, a slightly softer-than-bright white from the Ford Mustang collection that was released ages ago. My go-to white is Alpine Snow and AwaL isn't as crispy white as that, which is what I wanted as a base for dots I created using La Cigaline Coquine and Chainmail. I finished my manicure with a generous coat of Seche Vite on all nails but my middle finger.
The mug shot:
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| LCLVernis La Cigaline Coquine, Cirque Colors Chainmail, OPI Angel with a Leadfoot |
Quick, easy and (as far as I'm concerned) one of the nicest ways to show off pretty polishes, especially if they're not opaque enough to stamp with. I really like how this turned out. Hope you like my dots too :)
Lovely nails :-D
ReplyDeleteThank you <3
DeleteI love this so much. I wish I had thought of a simple but gorgeous dotticure. Those polishes are goooooorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThanks hun <3
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