P2 - Mint Flavour Dots, layering and swatch here

If this feels familiar you're correct. ;) This is pretty much the same as my orange look, it's not really because of lack of imagination, when I did the two I thought that it was fun, because it's the same brand of the shredded glitter. So I thought it would be fun to make them as a duo. :)

With flash.

Polishes used:
Essence Satin Matte top coat
KIKO - 341

P2 - Mint Flavour Dots, layering and swatch here

R de L young - Black

1 MM black rhinestones 

(dotting tool)

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31DC2015 - Day 2; orange - Matte orange cartoon inspired nails with glitter

Early this spring P2 released some matte shredded spring glitter, but on this base I think they fit for autumn too. (Thought I showed the glitter before, but that was the blue version..) Somehow this combo makes me think about autumn leafs or apples, if that makes sense? I also really love outlining my designs now days.. so this one got a cartoon like outline and black rhinestones. And matte top coat. What do you think? :)

Polishes used:
KIKO - 368
P2 - Cassis Passion Dots
R de L Young - Black
1 MM round black opaque rhinestones
Essence - Satin Matte Top Coat

Essence - Satin Matte Top Coat. Have I talked about this one before? I think it's an okay matte top coat, and it do give the nails a satin look. The thing I don't like with it is that it isn't possible to place shiny top coat on top (like for shiny+matte nail art designs) since this top coat really dulls/grays the surface permanently.

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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; recreating member designs; "recreation nail art" inspired by Hey Darling Polish!

I'm slow this month, pushing it to the last day but here is my fourth and last manicure for the "Recreating member designs" which has been the theme for April. This look is inspired by Hey Darling Polish!'s manicure where she recreated one of her own early manicures. I decided to add some green at the bottom of my nail art and I also made my version matte. But something feels wrong..I'm not so happy with this, I much prefer Hey Darling Polish!'s version and I also guess this might be a manicure which looks better on shorter nails? Or at least super shiny because it reminds me of something fruity. :)

Polishes and materials used:
KIKO - 851
R de L Young - Coconut Milk
Essence Satin Matte top coat
Essence - Have Fun
Essence - Wild White Ways
Black Rhinestones in 3MM and 2MM (with oil slick)

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Oriental romantic nail art

This is the actual nail art I did for Valentine's day this year. I wanted something with romantic symbols like hearts and roses but some cool colors. After some thinking I ended up with a bright gradient in orange, pink and purple, combined with matte pink glitter, freehanded roses in black, metal stud rhinestones (painted) in black and metal studs rhinestones. I also did like a high french with bows on my thumbs. I really liked this nail art and also submitted it to a nail art contest, which is the main reason why I haven't posted it before. (Out of ~30 submissions I ended up somewhere in the middle). Hope you'll like it.

And below are some photos with flash to show off the colors slightly more than those abow.

Polishes and materials used:
ZTIZ (black creme)
Claire's - Junk
KIKO -822
KIKO - 843
KIKO -  291
Black metal beads
Heart metal studs
2MM black rhinestones
3MM black rhinestones

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NCC presents: Garfield nail art

And so we have reached my #4 animal in the nail challenge collaborative this month, I'm slamming it in the very last day and the reason why, you'll see tomorrow. ;)

My forth animal nail art is with another cat motive, this time the lazy cat Garfield. Since my other three nail art's had gradients/glitter gradients I thought it was fun to do it here too (I quite like that look with double gradients) so here I used orange and two chades of green to create my regular gradient. And a cool glitter polish from Lakobotan in blue, white and green for the glitter gradient. I freehanded Garfield with nail polishes but I wouldn't say it's my best work ever, I would have needed some finer brushes to make it better I guess. I also did another accent nail with three 4MM black rhinestones and also added 2MM black rhinestones on my other nails. Quite happy with the result, even though my favorite is my 4MM rhinestone accent nail.. lol

Polishes and materials used:
ZTIZ (black creme)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Baby Pink
Kleancolor - White
Pink Up - Spring Symphony
KIKO - 822
Essence - Love Is In The Air
Essence - L.O.L
Essence - Beijos De Brazil
4 MM black opaque rhinestones
2 MM black opaque rhinestones

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