31 Day Challenge: Day 11 (Polka Dots)

Had the colour combination for this polka dot mani in my head since forever and ahhhh, the manicure is soooo cute! :D



The trouble I experienced was that the dots look so irregular. Boooo.

For this mani, I used Nubar Boyfriend Jeans (the Chanel Blue Boy dupe) and some white acrylic paint I bought. I thinned it down a little with water and it's so much cheaper than actually using white polish. Plus it's so much more opaque. And in case you're wondering, the white acrylic paint only cost $2.55 from Popular Bookstore!

Anyway, thought I'd try a different "pose" cuz I always see swatches with the bottle in the picture!



You like? :D

I was a little curious how this polka dot mani will look like matte because well, it seemed like agood idea at that time.



On my index finger, I layered on a coat of Nailtek Foundation II. I know it's meant to be worn as a bse coat but since it dries matte, I wanted to test whether it can be used as a matte top coat. And you can, except that I got little white specks on my nail. I read that most matte top coats eventually get these white specks but my Nailtek is BRAND NEW. So obviously, unless you don't mind the white specks, I wouldn't recommend you using this as a matte top coat.



Here, I used Essie Matte About You, a proper matte topcoat and it dried to perfection, without any white specks.

I actually quite like this mani mattified and I got quite a few compliments when I had this on!