52 week nail art challenge – Week 25: Polka dots

Hello lovelies,

Happy Monday!  Did you have a good weekend? Mine was alright.  Just a weekend.  I feel like it kinda just flew by in a blur so can you imagine if it was something exciting 😉

Time for another week of #52weeknailchallenge hosted by Polish Portfolio.  As always, you can follow this # to see what other people are creating and you can find the list of prompts for this year below.

The prompt this week is polka dot and I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t love polka dots.  I wanted to do something a little different and when I saw this post by Valiantly Varnished I knew I had to do this.  Let me show you what I did,

I started with just my base coat and then applied one coat my home made sheer black topcoat.  (I’ve used it before and explained how I made it but if you missed it let me know) Once that was dry I stamped using Lina Feeling Shapely 02 and Mundo de Unas – Black.  I then used a thin nail art brush and Nubar – Noir to make a border around each nail.  I let that settle for a minute and then I added another coat of my home made sheer black topcoat.  Once everything was dry I used a matte topcoat to mattify everything.

What do you think? I really love the concept and I think it came out really well.  I am not usually a fan of VNL or exposing my (stained) nails but I think this just works.  I also took a snap of it glossy before the matte topcoat and I can’t decide which one I prefer. I think I like the matte version but what do you think?

Thanks for reading,