Pop Up Video

Hello all! Hope everyone's labor day weekend was great.  I had a nice time with some neighbors at the pool drinking beer.  It was a good day! I ended up in bed by 8:30.  Jeez. The polish I have for you today is what I was wearing over the weekend.

As you know, my favorite indie polishes are made D & R Apothecary.  The lovely Rachel makes so many unique and inspired polishes but sometimes she can't think of a name.  She holds contests on her FB page to name some of these polishes.  Her husband and daughter chose the winner and that person wins the polish. She recently held a contest for two polishes, one of which was a multi-colored glitter polish that had colors reminiscent of the 80s.  I thought of the name Pop Up Video and I won!! I realize that the show Pop Up Video was on in the 90s, but many of the videos that they showcased were from the 80s.  Apparently this how has returned on VH1, but since I hate today's music I have no desire to watch it.   So, today I have a swatch of that polish for you! I just love it.  I didn't do anything special, just swatched it over a base coat of Misa Spaced Out.  I thought it made the colors of the glitter "pop" out.  hehe

If you haven't checked out D & R Apothecary you really need to.  They are closing the Bath and Beauty part of their shop and will only be doing nail polish.  The name of her polishes is Hit Polish.  Check it out.

Day 11-Dotty the Octopus

We now begin the part of this challenge that focuses on patterns.  It's going to get harder.  I'm very excited to live up to the challenge.  So, today's mani was Polka Dots.  I have great dotting tools and i was thrilled to do a mani with NO stamping. Don't get me wrong, I love stamping...I just wanted to do something different. I've had some success with my dotting tools in the past but I find that I am trigger shy and this ends up messing me up.  So, I went into this with confidence and a steady hand and all in all I like the way it turned out.  I named this Dotty the Octopus because the end result looks like the little suctions on an Octopus' tentacles. My neighbor totally agreed!

I started with a beautiful new base color called Spaced Out by Misa (a brand I had never heard of)  Then I used three dotting tools to create different dots.  At first, I put only one color of dots on each of the non-accent nails, but then decided to add another smaller dot inside each of those.  This is what made them to look like octopus tentacles :-P And the accent nail uses all of the colors.

Misa Spaced Out :-) I just loved this color! I almost didn't want to do anything to it.  You really can't see how pretty and shimmery gray it is in the pictures though

Pink-Color Club Hot Like lava
Teal-Wet N Wild Caribbean Frost
White-Sally Hansen Hard to Get
Black-Milani Black Swift

This was a lot of fun to do, even if it took a lot of time and patience.  Hope you enjoyed it! Thanks for stopping by :-)

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