Fancy Schmancy Nails: Nail-Aween Challenge, Day 2: Matte Doticure & Matte Top Coat Comparison

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Nail-Aween Challenge, Day 2: Matte Doticure & Matte Top Coat Comparison

This past week at work was pretty tough, and I was too wiped out at night to change my manicure, so I went pink all week. But it's the weekend, and I did Day 2 of the Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge: Matte Dotticure.

I'm still not totally confident in my dotting ability, so this was truly a challenge for me. I've had this one in my "Must-Do-Mani's" Pinterest Board for a while now, so I figured it was time to give it a go!

I used Orly's "Grave Mistake" and "Decoded" for a dark, vampy-like effect. I also took this opportunity to compare Butter London "Matte Finish" & NYC "Matte Me Crazy", and I used both to matte-ify the dotticure, just to see if there was any difference (besides the price).

This mani was hard for me to photograph. Here's with flash:

Here's no flash:

Can you tell a difference between the matte top coats? Neither could I! Butter is on the pinky & ring fingers, and NYC is on the others. The Butter's brush dragged my dots when I first applied on the pinky, so I used a much thicker coat & lighter touch for the ring finger, and got much better results. I had no issues w/NYC. Dry time was about the same. Butter retails for $18 for 17.5ml, and NYC is $2 for 9.7ml; a "normal" bottle of nail polish is 15ml, so these are kind of weird amounts. I know which one I'll be stocking up on ;-)

As far as the dotticure goes, it's okay. I'm not liking the transition line, which is supposed to be the coolest part. But I'm glad I finally tried out this technique, and I know it will look better the next time I do it! ;-)

Here are the other peeps doing this challenge with me, so check 'em out!

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