Birthday Manicure: Dotted French Tips

So my birthday was this past week (the 11th) and it was time for a new mani.  I had my outfit planned out and thought I'd do the matchy-matchy thing with my nails.  So marine blue, silver, and white it was!  But what to do?  Didn't really have the time for a water marble, so I thought I'd try my hand at a simple nail art.  I'd only done one before (a simple diagonal color block; sorry, no pics) so I wanted to keep it simple, and I knew I wanted to use my new dotting tools that I got for Valentines Day (I sent him a wish list; he would never have known to get them himself!).  You can find great kits with various ball sizes on amazon for ~$5-10.  You can also use simple household objects- bobby pin tips, ball point pen tips (preferably dried out), alteration pins (the kind with ball-tipped ends) stuck into a pencil eraser...just to name a few.  But I do like the size variety and comfy fat handles of these. 

Double-ended.  The balls are all the same on the left, but size varies on the right

I chose to do a French tip manicure, with dots along the color join to help disguise my amateur hand-painted tips  :)  And I was really happy with it for a first go!  Again, I took pictures to show my bub.  (He gets to see them and say nice things whether he wants to or not-hehe! ;D)  I can't wait to try more dotting-tool nail art.  All of the polish colors are by Wet N Wild Wild Shine.  The blue looks much more teal/green-toned in these pics than it really is.  

#443D-Bijou Blue, #449C-French White Creme, & #468-Metallica

By now the corners are starting to chip, so it's time to sign off and break out the remover.  Yep I'm one of those who can't stand a chipped manicure.  Don't know if I'll repaint tonight, but at the least I'll have a clean slate tomorrow!  Until next time!

In-tro-duc-tion! (You have to sing it ala Schoolhouse Rock!)

Well, here we go.  All set up so I reckon I should post something.  :)  Yeah, you heard me right:  reckon.  My vocabulary is a strange mish-mash of all sorts of regional vernacular, so you'll get everything from "big words" to "ya'll".  Some times you feel like a nut, some times you don't.

So I'm getting into this whole blog thing due to a recent upsurge in love of makeup and sart. I've been reading more beauty blogs and when I actually went to post on a friend's blog the browser was like, "set up an account!".  So here we are.  My biggest plans are to post about my two big "Ta-da! - Look what I did!" hobbies:  nail art and knit/crochet.  Weird combination, I know, but I'm a little bit girly-girl, a little bit old soul.  We'll see how it goes.  For now it'll probably be more nail-oriented since I've put knit & crochet on hold.  


Next post coming soon, stay tuned for pictures of a few of my recent nail art designs and other girly endeavors (read: I need to build a polish rack soon!).