How To Use Nail Dotting Tool

Howdy all!

Nail school has been going well, except we're in the dreaded Cuticle Zone. I detest having mine messed with. Interestingly enough, what I usually retrieve of equally the "cuticle" (that piffling border of skin on the sides of the nails) is not. The existent cuticle is actually a thin film that grows over the nail and is invisible until you scrape it off (aargh, I die a yard deaths!). It's not at all painful, but I hate doing information technology on other people and *really* detest having it done. Especially by other students who are a bit overzealous with their pointy tools. Gaah. It gives me the heebie jeebies.

Just use a creme cuticle remover once or twice a week and moisturize your hands regularly and you won't accept to worry nearly information technology.

My nails are likewise 10 unlike shapes and lengths due to some enthusiastic student filing too. I await they'll look pretty bad for the duration of nail schoolhouse, unfortunately. It's simply part of learning.

So, for now, I have a cool tutorial to show you lot while my poor nails recover.

Dotting tools are pretty inexpensive- you can notice them on Ebay or in salon supply stores. They look like this:

They have picayune metal balls on the terminate in various shapes to make unlike size dots.

Put a drop or two of nail smooth in a silicone baking cup or on a palette. Simply a tiny fleck is enough, since it will dry very quickly. Yous volition need to use a fresh dab of polish every 30-45 seconds or so, because thick, partially-dry smoothen will non give you a squeamish clean dot.

Hold the dotting tool similar a pen, dipping apace and lightly.

Do making dots in various sizes. The dotting tool works best when practical with thin, fresh polish with a lite bear on. Once the polish begins to thicken fifty-fifty slightly, it's much harder to work with. Merely add a new driblet of polish to the palette.

Once yous've got the hang of information technology and tin can make dots where y'all want them, you can make a eye! The heart is made with two large dots fairly shut together. After doing the 2d dot, quickly elevate the tool diagonally in a "v" shape to make the heart.

Equally you can run into, the heart on the eye nail got a scrap thick. I stopped to take a photo, and then the polish thickened upwardly in that time, so be conscientious! You tin adapt the shape of the heart by how far apart you infinite the ii dots and the angle of the "five" you draw at the end. Experiment and have fun!

Bows are like shooting fish in a barrel too- make big dots farther autonomously with the larger side of your dotting tool, add a dot in between, slightly lower than the other dots, then utilize the smaller finish of the tool to create the ribbon ends- but do an upside down "v" shape.

And so add a rhinestone in the center, or a contrasting color dot!

Yous can as well do dot-within-dot using contrasting colors also!

It's a fun and easy way to add an accent nail, or to jazz up a pedicure. But remember that you need a new dab of polish the minute the previous one begins to thicken!

Well-nigh nevertoomuchglitter

Nail artist. Wanderer. I'm a color-holic, in fact, information technology was my dearest of color that brought me to the nail art globe. Well, that, and the fact I was too cheap to pay crazy Japanese prices for nail polish while living in Tokyo, so I had to get-go mixing my own. That's how NTMG began.