NOTD: Mermaid Polka Dot (Tutorial)

Who says that polka dot nails are boring? Polka dots can be sexy & mysterious!
And applying them to a mani is simple, too! Here's a little tutorial for my Mermaid Polka Dot nails.

Click on the pictures to enlarge!

The colours really remind me of a mermaid's tail, hence the name!

All we’ll be needing is a matte top coat, a turquoise nail polish, a gold nail polish, a black nail polish and a bobby pin.

Yes, that is the smelly nail polish from H&M that I do not like. But I needed a gold for this mani, so I grabbed a scarf, tied it around my nose and mouth and went for it. I nearly died, but that's a side issue.  

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 colour 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 colours. Mix them like the picture and then stop. If you mix them too much, you get one new colour. But that’s not what we want! We want to see both colours 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 colours 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 colours?

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!

  

I love the contrast between the matte black and the shiny metallic gold & turquoise! And because you don't apply another topcoat, it actually looks like you have little buttons on your nails. 

You can do this with any colour!

Hope you liked the mermaid polka dots and the tutorial!