2015 31DC2015 - Day 8; metallic - Gear / Sprocket nail art over duochrome polish

Today's nails is a simple stamping but I'm still happy with it. Still not perfect, I notice that the free edge of the nail is the hardest place to get the pattern on for me, when I had shorter nails, like 3MM shorter, it was way easier to stamp tbh. Today's 31dc theme is "metallic nails" and I decided to use a duochrome/multichrome base'll take more about in a future post.  I'm not sure if a chrome polish finish counts as "metallic" but here goes, also I could perhaps claim that a gear or sprocket is made out of metal.

Here's the base polish and wow how much I liked it! I love when polishes looks even better on the nail than in the bottle. I will as I said above make a swatch post of this Rival de Loop polish after the 31dc.

This and below is just bonus pics of the manicure in a different light and therefor more purple to blue looking.

Polishes used:
Rival de Loop - no 06
MoYou's special black nail polish
Born Pretty Store Image Plate BPL-022 (itemID: 20787 http://www.bornprettystore.com/geek-pattern-nail-stamp-template-image-plate-born-pretty-65cm-p-20787.html)

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2015 31DC2015 - Day 7; b&w - cartoon inspired black and white paw nail art

Today it's the black and white theme for 31 day challenge, a theme which is a favorite of mine. I also choose to combine this for the pet theme in the Nail Challenge Collaborative. In my mind I see this as cat paws or dog paws. I wanted to make it quite clean and abstract so I did free hand paws in a straight line rather than "swirly". Also did a reverse accent nail on each hand. :)

Polishes used:
Dance Legend Matte top coat
R De L Young - Black
R De L Young -White
Essence - Black Is Back
Essence - Wild White Ways

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31DC2015 - Day 6; violet - Purple pencil nail art

Day 6 in the 31dc2015 and it's violet nails. However I guess violet or purple doesn't matter. I got a fun stamping idea that felt good for purple (so yes, this is something as unusual as a NOTD). I used my stamping plate from Born Pretty Store which I got for review and has talked about HERE before. I feel very happy that stamping has started to get simpler, and you who has followed me for long know that I've struggled before. I think I've reach a huge improvement this year, and I'm aware that all nails aren't perfect but I think that each time gets better and better at least. :)

I started with a violet base and then stamped the full pattern on each of my nails except one accent. On my accent I picked up the pattern as usual but removed all pencils except one from the stamper and then stamped that in the middle of my nail. After everything was dry I used a Promarker pencil and filled in some color inside the pencils and also made the colored parts on my accent. Really happy how this turned out. :)

Polishes used:
Essence - A Whisper Of Spring
MoYou's special black nail polish
Born Pretty Store Image Plate BPL-022 (itemID: 20787 http://www.bornprettystore.com/geek-pattern-nail-stamp-template-image-plate-born-pretty-65cm-p-20787.html)

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NCC presents: Heart beat necklace inspired nail art

Quick post for the 4th Nail Challenge Collaborative  this month. (really hopes to manage to do a Blue Monday post too, but my boyfriend's parents are here and time is limited). I got inspired by a simple necklace with a heart beat symbol, is it called MRI? Let me know in the comments if that's correct and if you like the nail art. Other than freehanding the pattern's I did a needle dragging (inspired by an instagrammer called Sveta_Sanders) and also some black bow rhinestones as accents. :)

Here's the necklace. Also a purchase from ebay.

Polishes used:
Dance Legend - Machete
R de L Young - Black
Essence - Black Is Back
Bow black opaque rhinestones

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NCC presents: Black and silver metal stud nail art

Here's my 3rd nail art inspired by jewelry and again I'm being inspired by my own jewelries. And so far it hasn't been so colorful. XD This time I've been inspired by a sequin silver tie necklace that I like. I used some metal stud rhinestones from Born Pretty Store which have an etched checked pattern which I think could symbolize the look of the tie. Then I made some accent tie nails with a square stud and a diamond shaped stud. My other nails got rectangular studs. Really happy with this one! :D

Polishes and materials used:
Essence - Black Is Back
Born Pretty Store metal stud wheel with itemID: 20277

Little more info about the studs. There is six types of shapes of the metal studs and both come in silver and gold. (There are round with holes, rectangular, diamond, round, square and wing shaped.) The special about these ones are that they have this etched checked pattern. I used clear nail polish to attach them and added top coat on top and the studs lasted til I removed them 3 days later. :) This retails for $3.42 and you can use my 10% discount code NGL91  for other stuff which isn't already on sale.

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