Simple Polka Dot Lace

I've been lax lately. I have been keeping up painting my nails, but haven't been taking pics. And frankly, the paint jobs I've been doing have been rather basic, by my standards. 

So for the beginning of this week, I decided to go with a brightly colored lace like manicure. 

The color is actually a neon coral, but looks hot pink in these pics. 

I painted a diagonal of black at the inner edge of my nails. 

 Next, using my larger dotting tool I placed evenly spaced dots along the diagonal.

I then placed coral dots within the black dots, using a smaller dotting tool. I also put a couple dots in the black space.

I wanted to do a arch of dots over each dot, so on my pinky I decided to do this completely free form. As you can see, it didn't so much arc over each dot as it just sagged. So sometimes it doesn't always go as planned. 

 I decided to try a different approach, so I first placed dots in the space between the larger dots.

Then to make the arch, I placed dots over the top of the larger dots, which worked out well and gave the look I was going for. Yay!