The nail art technique that we are covering this week, takes a little bit of practice, if you want your dots to be precise and neat. But, it is still super easy and simple to do.

Now there are a couple of dotting tools out there with different sized heads, and they are all pretty standard, so no need to overspend on them.

I bought mine at Dischem from the essence range.

And, you can even improvise with the “tools” that you have available to you around the house, like using the back of a bobby pin.

The rules for dotting is also quite simple; pick two or more colours for your design, paint your nails with one of the colours, and then just dip your tool into the second colour and start dotting away after the base colour has dried completely.

Here are a couple of dotting designs that I have played with, and I hope they inspire you to do your own bit of playing 😉

This was my very first dotting design, and I have really come a long way since… lol.

Try reversing your two colours on one finger as accent nail, and here I also did a “double dotting”, using the base colour for smaller dots inside the original dots:

Painting only my tips and reversing my colours on my ring finger as accent nail:

Starting with a Two-tone mani, and then dotting on a third colour on the ‘body’ of my nail:

And, I really liked this multi-coloured dots design, which I am yet to try:

Tip: getting the right amount of polish on your dotting tool can sometimes be tricky, so practice on a piece of paper a couple of times before taking it to your digits.

Article by: Mariaan Enslin