Method: Dotting.

Products: Essence Colour & Go Back to Black. Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear 300 White On. UO Candy Coating Lemon Drop.

I got a cheap but proper metal dotting tool, allowing me to make polkadots bigger than pinpricks. While my blue and green polishes are singing siren songs to me, I know that I’m always happiest with bold, graphic black and white. I’m pleased with these and impressed with how eyecatching they are, even from relatively far away. Incidentally, both polishes and the topcoat and the dotting tool cost less than a single-use packet of nail stickers with a similar pattern. DIY rules.