Carnival 2014 Nail Art

It has been far too long since I last did a post; exactly a month, in fact. My sincere apologies. For three weeks I was sick with bronchitis and then Carnival came around and I couldn't think of anything but sweet soca and colourful costumes. Still, even though I haven't been posting, I've been doing my nails weekly, so I've got a lot of manicures stored up for any rainy days ahead!

I'm still really hyped from Carnival, and in a state of what we call tabanca, which is when you miss something a lot, and you just kind of stay living in the memories of happy moments, even though you're sad in the present because you no longer have it. Does that even make sense? Anyway, here are the nails I wore with my beautiful costume.

Rose Manicure

After last week's simple two-colour manicure I was in the mood for something colourful and exciting. Of course, I still wanted nails that my supervisors at work wouldn't raise their eyebrows at, so I tried to keep the colours a little bit on the darker side for this pretty floral nail art.

Yellow Spots and Stripes

The nice thing about living in the Caribbean is that we have two seasons: Rainy season and Dry season. If you think that's a joke I'm actually 100% serious. We have no such thing as Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter. It is warm and lovely all year round and we can wear whatever colour polish we want at any time of the year and it's always going to be in-season and on trend. Welcome to the good life! ;)

Because I'm not held back by seasonal hues (and I felt like wearing something light, playful and bright), this week's manicure is a lovely yellow and white colour scheme with polka dots and stripes! 

Tutorial: Nude Dotticure

It's not often that I do nail art on my toes. I'm not sure why. I mean, sure, eight of the nails are too tiny to do much on, but my feet provide me with two large canvases in the form of big-toes, and I really ought to take advantage of that more.

Since the nails on my big toes are so...well, big, I love doing dotticures, because the large space allows more room for the design, making the finished product look more complex. If you're not familiar with the term "dotticure", it's just an easy way of describing nail art that is done mainly with dots. Haha no surprises there!

For this design, I decided to do rings of dots in alternating colours. It's really easy to achieve this look, but it looks so great and detailed once it's done that people will marvel and wonder how you did it. People are so often convinced that this is a complex look, but to show you just how easy this is to recreate, I made a tutorial (toe-torial? no? okay, I'll stop).