Kat Stays Polished | Beauty Blog with a Dash of Life: dot mani

Guest Post: Lo's St Patrick's Day Mani

Monday, February 25, 2013

Hey everyone! Please help me welcome Lo to the show! You may know her from Facebook and Instagram! She's going to show you how to get this really simple and cute St' Patrick's Day look!

Take it away, Lo!

To achieve this simple and cute St. Pattys day manicure I started off with 3 thin coats of Gargantuan Green Grape by Opi.

When that was completely dry I added two strips of striping tape to each nail and filled it in with Envy by Sinful Colors.

After a little more waiting to dry time, I added one coat of Seche Vite.

Since I used acrylic paints I didn't want my white to turn neon yellow from the green underneath.

Once my top coat was dry I grabbed my smallest dotting tool and created the tiny clovers and shamrocks with white and green acrylic paints.

This is really easy, just make tiny heart shapes that are connected to each other! Then when my paint had dried, one more layer of top coat and my look was complete!

Thanks for stopping by Kat's blog to see my design! Follow me on Instagram for more of my nail art!

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Dot Gradient Mani and Tutorial

Thursday, February 14, 2013

HI!!!!!!!!! How is everyone??? Today is a quick post about dot gradient manicures. So, the first one I ever did was because of an idea from my friend, Lo. She suggested I do a teal dot gradient over a neutral color. I did it and I was so happy with the result.

Last month, I did a pink one for a Valentine's Day idea. It was an ALL PINK dot gradient but I kinda liked it.

Today I have a purple dot gradient for you. I also made this into a video tutorial for anyone who was interested. Please check it out below the pictures.

I hope you enjoy the post! Let me know what else you'd like to see a video for!

Purple Dot Gradient

Learn how to do this EASY dot gradient mani!

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Valentine's Dot Gradient Manicure

Friday, January 18, 2013

WHAT?! Another PINK manicure from Kat? Well, yes. It's going to be Valentine's Day soon and pink and red take over the world!

Do you remember my teal dot gradient mani from a couple of months back? Well, I thought it would be nice to do one with pink polish.

These are 4 of the 35 polishes I won from Milani's Holiday nail art contest.

The two hot pink colors are hard to tell apart, but trust me, they look different on the nail. I super bummed about the smearing on 2 of the fingers. I managed to carefully apply top coat to the remaining fingers.

I hope you like this one. If you try it out, post it to my Facebook page!

Dot Gradient Manicure for Valentine's Day

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Friday Fan Pick: Lo - Teal/White Dot Gradient

Friday, December 14, 2012

Happy Friday, once again! Today's Friday fan is LO!!!!!!!!!

I actually want to begin by thanking her and all of you for giving me ideas for manis. I would never have the courage to try all these different things if you didn't show your support the way you do.

I had been thinking about this mani for a while and I started practicing on Wednesday for it. I had no such luck so I figured I'd just wing it.

I began by doing a trial hand with different designs. I asked hubby what he thought and he gave me his influential answer. Here is my test hand.

Clearly I had no idea what I was doing, but you know what? This is how you learn, people! Trial and error! I'm glad I did it this way and I wanted to show you that ugliness occurs quite often, lol.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the pictures. The one thing that got me though this mani was Lo's words to me when I told her I was a little nervous about this mani. "Just have fun with it," she says. Well, I did!