My Nail Journey: Oct 5, 2012

It is time for me to post day 2's post for the Nailaween Nail Art Challenge. There are 10 topic in this challenge and the one thing that I love about this is that it is self pace. We have until October 31 to post all of our manicures. This works great seeing as how I am in like a gazillion challenges this month... Not to sure why I did this, but oh well. It is keeping me busy and I like it.

The second day of this challenge is to produce a matte doticure. I was really excited for this one because I have wanted to do a doticure like the one I am showing you for quite some time. I am so let down with how this turned out. I had such high hopes and it wasn't what I wanted. It would have worked if I had a more opaqe orange, but this one would barely show up on the black so I ended up having to use a white base, only for the dots that are overlapping the black, and you can tell that it isn't right.

I applied the black over the orange using the tape method. After the black dried I went in and added the dots with a dotting tool to give it the interlocking look.

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener

Base color: Citrine from Sinful Colors - 2 coats

Black: Black Creme from Wet N' Wild

Top coat: Essence Nail Art Special Effect! Topper

Taken inside with flash