NCC presents; french and paris inspired nail art

De la lune et retour. To the moon and back. The theme for the Nail Challenge Collaborative for July is Travel. I just love travelling and visiting new places. I have such a huge "bucket list" of places I want to go to. The moon is not one of them, and Paris I've been to a couple of times. But I do like france and wouldn't mind going there more times too.

For the nail art I decided to make something nude/pastel like with black details, feminine but still not too sugar sweet. So, pink lines, freehanded little lace thingy's, freehand text and Eiffel tower.  I which I would have made the "retour" a bit smaller, since the "R" isn't visible from all angles. Hope you like it. :)

Polishes used:
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Baby Pink
R de L Young - Black
Rival de Loop - 502

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NCC presents: Poison ivy nail art

The theme for June is Super Heroes and Villains for the Nail Challenge Collaborative. I decided to make a Poison ivy nail art. A female villain found in Batman, which want to protect the nature etc. I decided to make a simplified version. And I ended up liking my non accents the best actually, and overall I'm not that happy with the manicure. I think it was because I was in such a hurry. Anyways, here it is. What do you think?

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Scattered & Tattered, swatch
Kleancolor - Poppy Field
Pure Ice - Wild Thing swatch will come)
Essence Satin Matte nail polish
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Bright Green
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Yellow
Sure Promise (black)
Green flower rhinestones
Green 1 MM round rhinestones

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NCC presents: Spring flower nail art

Something happened, like life and I got behind in NCC and blogging. However, the manicures where done in advance, I just didn't have time to post them, so this is still for the May theme; Spring Flowers. I had an idea of making a pastel blue base, did some saran wrap with white and added matte glitter , then I wanted tiny dandelions. The last part wasn't as successful, it could basically be any yellow flowers. However the outcome feel a bit spring like at least. Not my fav nail art of all time, but here it is:

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Pastel Teal
Kleancolor - White
Angelica - ?
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Mint Green
Sure Promise (Yellow fine liner polish)

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NCC presents: Pusheen Cat nail art

Time for my second post for this month for the Nail Challenge Collaborative. The theme is animals as you might has seen in my first post. Just for fun I decided to follow the cartoon style I started by the first post and decided to make the Pusheen cat. If you don't know what the Pusheen cat is, it's an emoticon for fb and I decided to make Pusheen as an accent with a pink balloon. The other nails got a gradient in a bright teal and light gray and then an inverted glitter gradient in b&w on top + a pink pearl rhinestone at the bottom to bring all the colors together in a nice way. Quite happy with this, hope you like it too. :)

Polishes used:
 Ztiz (black creme)
KIKO - 854 (light teal green)
KIKO - 329 (light gray)
La Femme (gray creme)
FACE it (black and white glitter)
Jordana Pop Art - Contemporary White
L.A Colors Art Deco - Baby Pink
2 MM pink pearl rhinestones

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Purple funky french

Well, here I have some pictures I'm not that happy with. This is from 2013 and was when I was in the middle of my thesis project in university. I'd worn these nails for some time before I was able to take the pictures so sadly the pearl rhinestone show some serious wear, the color was pink but the plastic base is showing. However I like the nail art it self, purple and blue and some white glitter.

Polishes and materials used:
Kleancolor - Neon Purple
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Baby Blue
Oopsie Daises - Zeus
2 MM (pink) pearl rhinestones

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Valentine cartoon nails

Hi! Happy Friday the 13th ;) I'm not superstitious so I don't care and also I have more important stuff to think about, like today's nails, which is cartoon nails with a Valentine touch. I decided for a black base and then made a light pink frame, pink "fake" shine and instead of "shine dots" I freehanded hearts. I'm quite happy with the result, it's cute without being cheesy and feels okay for me even though I'm not a pink person in general. If this is too girly for you still, I did make a less girly valentine nail art this Wednesday if you're looking for inspiration.

Also added a photo with flash to show that the pink polish has some shimmer in it. :)

Polishes used:
ZTIZ
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Baby Pink

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Metallic zebra nail art

These are some nails I did some while back. A sea foam toned metallic silver color and then regular silver stripes on top. The result was some what subtle but still cool.

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Metallic Muse
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Silver

What do you think? :)

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Holo gradient funky french in blue

Well, I've been going through my archive and found these oldies from 2013 and it's time to show them. I have showed them with snowflakes on before but I think I liked them more like this. For more blue manicures, check out Blue Monday. The rainbows are subtle but I like this. :) What do you think?

Above is shot in flourecent light and below are the ones in natural light, the holo effect is less visble but still there. :)

Polises used:
Catherine Arley - 676 (not included in the picture:()
China Glaze - Sensuous
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Dark Blue
Kleancolor - Neon Aqua
Gabrini Elegant - 352
HM Nail Polish - Enchantress Emma

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