Scofflaw Letter To Kurt Vonnegut with gradient and dots

Scofflaw Letter to Kurt Vonnegut with gradient and dots

This started out just as a straightforward blue mani with Scofflaw Letter to Kurt Vonnegut, so let's have a look at that polish first! Letter to Kurt Vonnegut is a light periwinkle blue with an interesting shimmer, lots of tiny glitters in various shades of blue and the occasional shard of gunmetal. It was a limited edition Finch made a few months ago, and if I remember correctly it sold out fairly quickly.

The application on this was smooth and easy - this is two coats with Gelous and Seche Vite and it dried to a super glassy finish.

Scofflaw Letter to Kurt Vonnegut

Here's a bottle macro and a nail macro to show the details in the glitter:

Scofflaw Letter to Kurt Vonnegut

Much as I loved the colour, I had a problem with my nails......... as you can see in the picture below, they're not properly square! When I cut them the other day, I didn't go far enough into what I'd let grow out straight, and the more I looked at them, the more this was starting bug me. So out with my file and square them off properly - but then of course I've filed off some of the polish on the tips so the mani is pretty much ruined!

Scofflaw Letter to Kurt Vonnegut

I didn't want to take Letter to Kurt Vonnegut off straight away, so the ideal solution was a gradient to cover the tips! I used Bourjois 10 day polish in this nice dusky airforce blue - it doesn't seem to have a name, just no. 18. It has a bit of a subtle shimmer and tones well with Letter to Kurt Vonnegut. Actually, Letter to Kurt Vonnegut is a great base for a gradient with a darker shade as the glitters seem to pick up and extend the gradient further down the nail. And then I couldn't resist adding big dots - I'm on a bit of a roll with dots at the moment. I used Barry M Gelly Nail Paint in Lychee for these dots - it's a perfect polish this, being very opaque but quite fluid. I think these dots turned out a lot better than the ones I did with OPI My Vampire is Buff (the dots are near the bottom of that post) - although MViB and Lychee are similar in colour, the Lychee dots are both denser and rounder. And I think dots look better on square nails than pointy ones :D

Scofflaw Letter to Kurt Vonnegut with gradient and dots

I purchased Scofflaw Letter to Kurt Vonnegut direct from Finch at her Etsy Shop; you can follow her on facebook for details of restocks. Llarowe also stocks Scofflaw polishes.