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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17th of May Norwegian flag nail art

Happy 17th of May! It's the Norwegian constitution day and I have some old archive nails to show you. The photos are actually from 2011 but I've been occupied and forgot about posting them every year until now.

Right hand.

Left hand.

I think it's fun to see the difference of my nails from now and then. At 2011 my nails just barely had started to maintain length with out peeling and breaking and I had a much rounder shape of my nails than I have now. I can also see that my right hand had much more uneven length than the left one. I'd also like to claim that my photo skills have improved a lot. ;)

Another thing, I've noticed that my new job takes a lot of energy and time for me so blogging time has been very limited. Currently it feels like I wake up, work, eat and sleep and some nights I haven't even started my computer. I'm still hoping that I'll get things more routine based because I have at least hundred of posts in my archive waiting to be posted but until I get things figured out there will be less posts here and less comments in your blogs.

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Sunflower funky french for Ukraine

Let's take a look at country no. 18 in the Where In The World Challenge which is Ukraine. When reading I realized that the national flower was the Sunflower and I immediately visualized a sunflower funky french. Maybe it looks more like some kind of burning pile, but with imagination you'll see it's flowers. ;) Hope you like it :)

Polishes used:
Sure Promise (yellow)
Sure Promise (yellow)
Sure Promise (brown shimmer)
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Jordana Pop Art - Contemporary White
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Bright Orange
OPI - Samoan Sand

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Cornflower nail art for Germany

The next country in the Where In The World Challenge is Germany and I know I have some German readers so I hope you like this ;) I searched for inspiration and found that corn flower was their national flower and I looked at some photos of cornflower and decided to do a graphical freehanded version. I decided to take Kleancolor - Metallic white as a base and made the whole nail art in metallic/shimmer. I liked that effect but I can imagine that the colors would pop more if the whole thing was done i creme. This is btw also my contribution to Blue Monday and now a picture spam will follow. ;)

And below some shots with flash so that you'll see how shimmery it looked, I also think the colors came out more accurate in the flash.

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Metallic White
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Dark Blue
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Sure Promise (blue)
Nordic Cap -NP13 (white)

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Tropical nail art

Today it's Nail Art Sunday with the theme; "travel". I had the perfect plan for nail art but some how I started doing something else on my nails yesterday and I haven't had the time today to redo it. But, lucky me has always something in the archive, and searching I found this tropical inspired gradient with green/blue leaves/flower petals. This is actually what I wore during 2013 Mid summer day, I guess I wanted something neon then. ;)

About traveling; I love it. I'm that kind of person who like everything from checking out architecture, cultural, food, sights, the beach and shopping. In my latest trips nail polish has been a vital point during the shopping..haha ;)

 Above, the left picture is in some what natural light and the right one is in direct sun/ evening sun and can you see how much more orange the right one looks? The neon shimmer in the polishes really shine through in the sun light.

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Love's A Beach
China Glaze - Orange You Hot?
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Sky Blue
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black

Sure promise (green)

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Snowman nail art

Now I'm back to business, more or less at least. ;) With my new part time job I must make sure to be efficient to be able to get time for everything I want, like blogging and nail related stuff. I'd also like to thank you all for all the nice comments I've got, yesterday I answered 66 comments which had dropped in here while I was gone. <3

Today I'm showing you the 3rd theme in Loving Cosmetic's Christmas Challenge which is "snowman".
 For this I freehanded a snowman on my ring finger and made an inverted gradient with a polish called "Melted Snowman" from the brand Ninja Polish. I've actually done a similar nail art last year which you can see HERE. For the glitter gradient I had to dab the brush a lot but I think it came out kinda cool. On top I have 2 coats of Seche Vite to make the surface smooth. I also couldn't resist making them matte which you'll see in the end. As you can see I've also actually cut my nails 4-6 mm's yesterday so now I'm rocking much shorter nails but I think the snowman nail art worked anyhow or what do you think? Which one did you like the best, matte or shiny? :)

I just love the subtle shimmer in Melted Snowman combined with the white and black hexes in different size and the string glitter in orange and brown. Christmas and winter like and fun. :D

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP12Nordic Cap - NP24
Nordic Cap - NP13
Ninja Polish - Melted Snowman
Sure Promise (orange)
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark

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As I said earlier today I'm joining a Christmas nail art challenge which Sara from Loving Cosmetic has arranged. Sara shows amongt other things amazing nail art and writes her blog in spanish, and the original title for the challenge is El Gran Reto de Navidad Nail Art which would translate into something like; The Great Christmas Nail Art Challenge. I'm not that good in spanish (I understand the basics in written language) but who cares? the language of nail art is universal, right? ;) And when Sara asked if I would join I wanted to join I thought it sounded fun, and especially since this isn't a daily challenge. The first theme which is "Christmas Tree" lasts from the 25/11-1/12 so there's still time if any of you want to join. ;)

As I said earlier today I'm joining a Christmas nail art challenge which Sara from Loving Cosmetic has arranged. Sara shows amongt other things amazing nail art and writes her blog in spanish, and the original title for the challenge is El Gran Reto de Navidad Nail Art which would translate into something like; The Great Christmas Nail Art Challenge. I'm not that good in spanish (I understand the basics in written language) but who cares? the language of nail art is universal, right? ;) And when Sara asked if I would join I wanted to join I thought it sounded fun, and especially since this isn't a daily challenge. The first theme which is "Christmas Tree" lasts from the 25/11-1/12 so there's still time if any of you want to join. ;)

The actual nail art I decided to do is something I did last year, which is a Needle Dragging Christmas Tree nail art. Last year's version which I actually think came out greater than this one was in "daylight" so I decided to make this version in "darkness". I've also prepped a tutorial of this which will come out any day. :)

Edit: TUTORIAL HERE.

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP12
HM Nail Polish - Green Street
Claudia - 607 (red)
Sure Promise (yellow)

Sorry about the inlinkz being allover the screen, but I guess my blog is to slim for it. Hope you can live with it. :/

What do you think about this nail art? Is it too early for Christmas nail art or good to be inspired in advance? If it would have been me I would have done the snowman theme as the first challenge theme just to get a soft start but then again I don't mind. :D

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