Good morning everyone!
I am sure many of you have already heard of the nail art dotting competition that Sarah is hosting at Chalkboard Nails. Not only are the prizes great, it is a great time for us (especially me) to brush up our dotting skills.
In any case, seeing as we've posted way too many swatches for the past few days, I thought it would be fun to have a few dotty dotting mani-s here! :D
As usual, all designs are done with a bobby pin and/or a toothpick.
So.. on to the first design!
This is my very sad attempt at a bokeh look on my nails. It took me quite a few tries before my nails look remotely decent. The first few attempts were horrid and the random dots look just like splotches on my nails. Quoting our dear Jayo, they look liked someone just puked on them. -_-||
Since it is not very obvious on my nails, this is what bokeh is about: where the lights / colors are deliberately blurred to create a very soft and dreamy effect
Well... I suppose if I blur the picture a little, it may just look bokeh-ish?
So, does it look more bokeh?
Come on, humour me please? LOL!
Polishes used:
Nails Inc - Black Taxi (black)
My franken - Purple Rose of Virgo (just a stroke across the nail for the sprinkle of glitter)
My franken - Spring Kisses (glittery / shimmery sheer dots)
Sally Hansen - Flashy Fuchsia (pink)
Clatty - #92 (white)
Since I don't have so much pink shades, most of the shades you see are mixed from the pink and the white on a piece of cardboard. I also used some clear polish during mixing to make the dots more translucent for a more bokeh-ish effect.
And just because I quite like the pink and purple dots, bokeh or not, here's another shot:
So... what do you think of this design? Love or nay?
xoxo,
mich
p.s. do check out my other dotting design! <3
very pretty none the less.
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous! I really like the colors together. <3
ReplyDeleteI don't know what bokeh is, but it's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThank you! :D
ReplyDeleteThank you Ivana! I'm glad you like them too! xx
ReplyDeleteThank you!! xx
ReplyDeleteThis is so pretty!
ReplyDeleteThis looks awesome, may have to try my hand at it tonight!
ReplyDeleteThank you Kelly! I'm glad you like it! :D
ReplyDeleteThank you Shelby! Have fun dotting! ^_^
ReplyDeletelove! I'm inspired :D
ReplyDeleteinsanely gorgeous, seriously!!
ReplyDeleteI really like it! The colors look great together and it just looks all around good. So pretty!
ReplyDeleteThat design is so pretty! Love!
ReplyDeleteLove :)
ReplyDeleteAww... you flatter me! Thank you! <3
ReplyDeleteHehh! Thanks meimei! xx
ReplyDeleteThank you Rebecca!! xx
ReplyDeleteThank you, Yvonne! With that coming from you, I'm truly flattered! <3
ReplyDeleteThank you Miss Lara! xx
ReplyDeleteI love bokeh, so this is so lovely!!!
ReplyDeleteSo it does look bokeh-ish? Thank youuu <3!! lol ;p
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful! I don't know if I would have the patience for this ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you!! It's a fairly simple mani really! Just dot some dots randomly and you'll be surprised how pretty it looks! ;)
ReplyDeleteLovely, I really like the design and your inspiration source :)
ReplyDeleteLURRRRRRRRRRRVE THIS xxxx
ReplyDeleteThank you, El!! I'm glad you like it too! :D
ReplyDeleteawww.. Thank you Debbie!! <3
ReplyDeleteI love it!! It came out great. I never knew those were called bokeh. Great idea for a mani!
ReplyDeleteIt's great color combo, it looks really nice :)
ReplyDeletereally loving this mani, it's so creative. and bokeh pictures are just gorgeous... in love.
ReplyDeleteThank you Marisa!! <33!
ReplyDeleteThank you Maddy! I'm glad you love it too! :D
ReplyDeleteThank you Maria! xx
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sarah! Glad you love bokeh too! I fell in love with it even before I knew what they were called! lol!
ReplyDeleteThis is a very nice one.. I shall try it next time :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Esther! I hope you will enjoy dotting these as much as I did! :D
ReplyDeleteI like it, you did a great combination of colors!
ReplyDeletewww.missadelinne.com
Missadelinne's Fanpage
This is so cute, the colors are great and I love the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteThank you Missadelinne! ^_^
ReplyDeleteThank you Beverly! I'm glad you like this too! :D
ReplyDeleteI love it
ReplyDeleteThank you! ^_^
ReplyDeleteI really like it!=D
ReplyDelete:D Thank you Stephanie!
ReplyDeleteYour Bokeh dots are so cute and a great idea!! (: Thanks for the sweet comment on our blog btw, it's so nice to find fellow nail polish lovers, especially ones that are also law students in Singapore (:
ReplyDeleteI love it!!! can you make a video tutorial??? I really love it
ReplyDeleteI LOOOVE bokeh! I was just thinking of how to do a bokeh mani the other day and you've enlightened me! I am adding "bokeh mani" to my to do list!
ReplyDeleteThank you! It's definitely fun to find your guys! Look forward to seeing more amazing posts from you! :D
ReplyDeleteThank you! I haven't tried shooting a video tutorial before but I will see what I can come up with :)
ReplyDeleteMe too! I love the soft dreamy effect it creates!
ReplyDeleteGlad to know that I could be of help. Have fun dotting! :D
this is lovely! I hope you'll win :D
ReplyDeleteThank you Karine! <3
ReplyDeleteI think it turned out perfectly! I really like how you added the clear polish to make them more sheer and translucent. Next time I do dots I'm going to try this!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Nicole! Have fun dotting! :D
ReplyDeleteI love this, but I wish that you would make tutorial videos of how to do this
ReplyDeleteGlad you like it Robyn! I've been meaning to work on tutorials but have been caught up with my school work lately. So sorry!! I promise to do something about it soon! xx
ReplyDeletewaw! i love it
ReplyDeleteGlad you love it too! ^_^
ReplyDeleteloved it! Vcan you make a video tutorial? :) (PLEASE!)
ReplyDeleteThank you Julissa! I haven't dabbled with videos before but I will see what I can do about it :)
ReplyDeleteWow what a cool idea!! They look awesome!! Can't wait to try this! Thanks for the great idea (:
ReplyDeleteGlad you like them! Thank you for reminding me about the tutorial! >< I really should get around to doing it soon! Will keep you posted! <3
ReplyDeleteI want to do this and before I read what it was suppose to be I had thought it looked dreamy. Let my know when you get the tutorial up.
ReplyDeleteLOVE!
ReplyDeleteThank you! xx
ReplyDeleteThank you!! I'm glad you like it! ^_^
ReplyDeleteActually, I think you captured the bokeh effect beautifully. I would love to have seen a tutorial of it or more details on the process, though. Then, I could give it a try!
ReplyDeleteI saw in the comments that you said you would make a tutuorial...where is it?? If you can't do a video tutorial maybe you could do a picture tutorial. =)
ReplyDeleteThank you Hikeeba! I'm so sorry I keep procrastinating on the tutorial! Hopefully I will get it up soon! ><
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry I keep procrastinating on the tutorial! I have been caught up with a lot of things recently and never really found time to do it. I will see if I can find the time to do up a pictorial instead! :)
ReplyDeleteThat would be awesome! I'll keep an eye out!
ReplyDeletesad? I love this! so cool! I'll try it. Love your blog really pretty much, subbed. Please come and check mine http://nailsnoob.blogspot.it
ReplyDeleteThank you! xx
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous!! I love it so much im going to try it out tonight i think :P
ReplyDeleteThank you Nikita! <3 I hope you had fun painting your nails! :D
ReplyDeletesimple but yet an eye catching art! <3
ReplyDelete