Polka Dots with Red Carpet Manicure

Sooo... it's spring!  But is it spring-like for anyone else?  It's certainly not here! I feel like I always complain about the weather on this blog, but it seriously has been snowing or raining for pretty much the last two days.  I don't think the sun peeked out for more than a minute any day.  Hence, I didn't do to well trying to get photos of my current nails.

The more that I look at my nails, though, the more I realize they weren't such great colors for spring!  Considering all the snow we've been having, the polka dots I made kind of remind me of snow against a dreary grey blue sky....

The colors I used are Red Carpet Manicure's "Love Those Baby Blues" and "White Hot" for the polka dots.  The glitter I used is from the Born Pretty Store, it's one of the 12 colors I got in the pack of  1.5mm glitters. 

"Love Those Baby Blues" may look a little misleading in my pictures... since I had no sunlight to shoot in, my photos have either an artificial flash or a bright (but extremely blue) tint due to the snow outside.  The photographs show it as very bright, almost sky blue.  It does show that way in some lights, but it also has a lot more of a grey base to it, which you can kind of see in the second picture.  I think of it as kind of a periwinkle, but my photos tell me otherwise! It actually kind of looks the sky has looked lately--you know, when the clouds have blocked out any semblance of sun, and the sky takes on a very saturated grey-blue color?  I tried to get an indoor picture with no flash to show you, but it came out pretty blurry:

Anyway, as for the formula, it's very thin. It took me three layers to build up this gel polish, which honestly is about my usual for cremes, but the first layer was very, very sheer looking.  As I was painting it on my nails, I was forcing myself to remember, "it's gel, it's supposed to go on thin and build up".  It also took a lot of shaking and swirling my brush to mix up the color before I used it.  I'm not sure if all Red Carpet Manicure colors are the same way, although I have heard that they are a little thinner compared to the Gelish colors they coordinate with. 

I was pleasantly surprised with "White Hot", when using it for detailing this time, though! Considering the thinness of this gel polish, too, the polka dots looked great with just one dab on the nail, even if I happened to be wobbly with my hand.

I also did a video, which is kind of a "tutorial" to show you the two ways I accented my nails, although I'm still trying to work on my camera.


I must admit I love the polka dots, but next time I'll try to be a little more spring-like!

Update 4/14: I think this color may be the RCM "dupe" for Gelish "Up in the Blue", but I do not have the Gelish color to compare.