Half Moon + Polka Dots

Another one of those looks that was better in my head than in real life. I'm currently working my way through my polish rack, trying to give some love to many polishes which haven't been used in a LONG time. This brown is actually a franken I made before I knew that anyone else did that sort of thing.

Long side note: Six weeks after my 4th baby was born, fibromyalgia descended like a load of bricks out of a dump truck. Among the many ways I have tried to deal with it was a long phase of treatment from this book. It didn't work for me, but during that phase I bought some sal-free cosmetics here. I ended up dumping some coppery brown loose mineral eyeshadow into a polish I didn't like, and tada! I never even named it...maybe I'll go back and do that!

So, it being late spring, I wasn't really excited about going into my brown stash. I thought pink (Sinful Colors Pink Forever here) would be a good pairing, and it might have been with a shade a bit lighter. But I was going for something that wouldn't require a gazillion coats over the brown, or laying it down first and then carefully painting in the half moons as I saw one blogger recommend. I did learn something cool: I was able to go back with a second coat of the pink, and it sort of reactivated the first coat, so I was able to remove the paper hole reinforcements from the half moons without messing up the lines.

The polka dots were a pain. Kudos to every nail artist out there who can achieve perfectly same-sized dots with their dotting tools. I can't. No matter how carefully I work, I can't. But really, who in real life is going to look at my nails that closely? And I did get a couple compliments on these!