Nubar Black Polka Dots over pastels

I decided to have a little play with the Nubar Black Polka Dots following on from my Black and White mani reviewed here (also practicing with links in my blog so apologies if they don't work quite right!)

I have to confess that it was Lucy's Stash  that made me realise I had to have Nubar Black Polka Dots. Recently Lucy blogged the Nubar polka dots over some pastels and I just had to have a try!!
I chose Nails Inc Instyle Peach Sorbet, Power Pink,  Bluebell, and Nails Inc Haymarket. Typically with Nails Inc, I got excellent coverage with 2 coats from each of these 4 polishes. These are lovely colours although not really the sort of shades I would normally wear, but looking back over what I have blogged recently, my "normal" shades have not featured much!

As I experienced earlier with my black & white mani, the polka dots took a bit of an effort to get out but I got there in the end.

 

I did try an extra coat of each of the Nails Incs over these, as Lucy did, here but they were too opaque! The black almost completely disappeared, so perhaps I'll try this again with maybe a wash of Leighton Denny Starkers to soften the black as I loved the effect that Lucy got. 

Anyone else tried this?

Monochromatic Week - Black & White

It's Monochromatic Week on All Things Nails and my immediate thought was black & white, although monochrome means one colour or shades of one colour, so black or white, or any other colour. I checked it out on Wikipedia and that is the case but the term is often used to mean the same as black & white.
Anyway, that aside, I decided to do black and white and having just acquired Nubar Black Polka Dots I thought it would be a great opportunity to try out both the Black & the White Polka Dots.
I don't actually own a pure white, but I have OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls which is a very pale grey, almost white, and I have used Nails Inc Black Taxi.
So this is my base...

The Nubar Polka Dots are very elusive! Plenty of the fine glitter came out, but first time round only 1 white dot and no black ones at all! It's also rather difficult to see if you have any on the brush with the black since the brush is black too, and I think I might try to find a white brush to apply these with next time! I finally got enough out to create the effect I had in my mind and this is it.

 

And because she was black & white, a pic of Posky, who would have been 19 last week.