26 Great Nail Art Ideas: Dotting Tools - But Not Just Dots

 

Dotting tools, but not just dots were asked for this week's challenge. I decided to go with a needle drag mani, using a very fine dotting tool. The result shows you, how not to do it... ;-)





Needle drag is a technique I'll probably never master, what is quite interresting in my eyes, since it's the first nail art technique I ever used (it must be about 20 years ago now, I saw it in some youth magazine and used it quite often back then. Yes, I'm that old...). There are so many pictures of gorgeous needle drag manis floating aroung on the net, but I just can't do it. But as I usually don't have time to re-do my nails, I wore this failed mani for two whole days, and I dare to show it here, even if I'm not at all happy with it. The polishes I used are Contrary Polish Better Together, a dark grey with blue shimmer and tiny silver glitters, and MoYou London After The Storm, a pale purple creme. As usual, I added one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.











 



Contrary Polish are available at Femme Fatale and  Norway Nails.

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Lacke in Farbe und bunt - gold

Lacke in Farbe und bunt is a weekly nail polish challenge by Lenas Sofa and Das Jahreszeitenhaus. Each week they have a new color scheme, and this week's color is gold.

My base polish is Hits Specialità Hermes, a sheer gold linear holo. I used three coats for the pictures.





For the stamping I used MoYou London Black Knight and Moyra stamping plate 03 Ornaments. One coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Tip finished the mani.

Born Pretty Store Thermal Glitter Polish

Today's polish was offered by Born Pretty Store, thank you so much!






The polish is (supposed to be) a thermal polish with a hot pink jelly base and silver holographic hexes and microglitters. In the bottle, it looks purple, and in the shop pictures it has a deep red color, but on the nails, it's just pink. I used three coats (it wasn't completely opaque after these, was you can see) and added one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

I held my hand in cold water before the first picture below, hot water for the second. See the difference in color? Yeah well, me neither. So the thermal effect just doesn't work with this one. If you still like it, you can get it here for 3.99$.









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The nail polish was offered for reviewing purposes. Again, thank you very much, Born Pretty Store!

Nail Crazies Unite: Sunflowers

For the last August challenge mani, Sunflowers are the theme.





For this mani, I used MoYou London White Knight, Sweet Custard and It's A Date, MoYou London Pro Collection XL plate 23 and a dotting tool (plus one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top, as usual).

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Lacke in Farbe und bunt - aubergine

Lacke in Farbe und bunt is a weekly nail polish challenge by Lenas Sofa and Das Jahreszeitenhaus. Each week they have a new color scheme, and this week's color is eggplant.





My base color is Picture Polish Attitude, a dark purple polish with scattereds silver holo particles. I used three coats for opacity.





For the stamping I used MoYou London White Knight and a stamping plate Born Pretty Store offered me, thank you so much!

The plate is BP-140 and as you can see, it works perfectly well. It has the usual size of round stamping plates (like Bundle Monster, Konad and all the other brands) and shows a big peacock and some twigs, leaves and flowers. You can get it here for 1.59$. I got it as part of a set of three plates, but I don't know if you can order this set (the one I asked for showed other patterns).

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas: The End Of Summer

Summer is nearing its end, the leaves, that are now still juicy green, will soon turn brown and wither...





Base: three coats of China Glaze OMG A UFA, a light olive green linear holo.

Stamping: MoYou London Winter Green, Ever Green, Into The Woods, It's A Date, ÜberChic plate Lovely Leaves

Topcoat: KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

(Ink stain on my thumb: Diamine Sargasso Sea ;-)  )

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Born Pretty Store Nail Art Magnet

Born Pretty Store also offered me a very handy nail art magnet, thank you so much!







 



I tried the magnet with a polish I found very hard to work with, Dance Legend Thunderball, a royal blue and gold magnetic polish. I tried several nail art magnets with this one, and never had any visible effect. But this little helper is strong enough to work even with this polish. The magnet is quite small, so it's not really easy to hold it over the nail, for me it worked best just sticking it on a pair of tweezers (the magnet is strong enough to hold itself fairly secure). I applied one coat of the polish, let it dry, added a second one and held the magnet over it immediately, as close as I could without touching the polish. I used the magnet a second time with the freshly applied topcoat KBShimmer Clearly On Top (I don't know if it really makes a difference, I've just read on several blogs that you should magnetize the polish a second time after topcoat...)

.If you're looking for a small but strong nail art magnet, this might be the right one for you. You can get it here for 1.59$. In the shop it's marked for magnetic UV gel, but it works perfectly well with ordinary magnetic polish.

 




For more nail art items, check out Born Pretty Store (use the code below for a 10% discount)

The nail art magnet was offered for reviewing purposes. Again, thank you very much, Born Pretty Store!