The Polka Dot Mani

Who says that polka dot nails are boring? We think polka dots can be totally sexy and mysterious! And applying them to a mani is simple, too!

1. Start with a base coat. After applying your base coat, apply a layer of black nail polish. If your nail polish doesn’t cover properly, add another layer.
2. After your nail polish dried, apply a matte topcoat. It’s important you let the coats dry! You don’t want to ruin your mani, do you?
3. After your matte topcoat has dried, you’re going to start with making the color for your polka dots. Get a piece of paper and let a few drops of the gold nail polish drop on it.
4. Into the drop of gold nail polish, you drip some of the turquoise nail polish. The proportion has to approximately be 1/3 of turquoise nail polish and 2/3 of gold nail polish.
5. After that, carefully mix the two colors. Mix them like the picture and then stop. If you mix them too much, you get one new color. But that’s not what we want! We want to see both colors in the mix and in the dots.
6. Get some of the mix on your bobby pin. The effect is most beautiful if you can still see both colors separately in the dot.
7. Dot away!
8. You can randomly put dots on your nail or you can put them in a structure like on the picture. Can you see the effect of the two colors?
9. Apply on all nails and you’re done! Make sure you let your nail polish dry. It takes a while before the dots dry. Enjoy your polka mani!

- Petite Sal

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