NCC presents: Male inspired fashion nail art

Time for my 3rd inspired by fashion manicure for the Nail Challenge Collaborative. I decided for some male fashion and found something geometrical which I figured would look cool on the nails.

Design by Philip Lim (2015), source of image here.

To the nail art then, I was mostly inspired by the outfit of the gentlemen to to left and also found it to be fun if I could implement some negative space nail art, partly inspired by the gap on his knees and also that black thick line. So, on with striping tape which I later realized was too thin but also colored off some silver onto the nail art, which made it even less of a negative space.. For the rest of the nail art, it was mainly making freehand lines, which I'm usually quite good at, but I got a bit disappointed because both my black and white fineliners decided to die the thickness death while painting this so everything got a bit thicker and less crisp than I wanted. Still, not the worst thing I've ever done and geometrical is kinda fun to play around with. What do you think?

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP13
P2 - Dating Time (swatch here)
Jordana Pop Art -Black Mark
Jordana Pop Art -Contemporary White

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Red cartoon nails

I really like cartoon nails, this will be the 4th on the blog. This time the color combo is red, black and white. In some way the nail art is easy to make, on the other hand you need to be steady. This is a nail art which make me look at my nails a lot, everything looks funnier when stretching out the cartoon hands. ^^

Doesn't it look hilarious! ;)

I guess you haven't forgot that I'm also on instagram as @gelicnailart
Some time the pictures are different from here and sometime the same. ^^

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP09 (red)
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Jordana Pop Art - Contemporary White

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Dance Legend - Termo Shine No.179, swatch

Today I'm showing Dance Legend Termo Shine No.179, a polish who changes color depending on the temperature, ie. thermo polish ;) Here the two colors are a white/light pink nude and bright red filled with matte black glitter which of course is unaffected by the temperature. The glitter is hexagons in two sizes and also some short string/bar glitter. The color scheme is that it's white/light pink nude when it's hot and red when it's cold. The application was great and even though I haven't made any notes I remember it to be 2 coats. Basically I loooooove this polish! It is so beautiful!  So, what do you think? <3

Bought at color4nails.com for $13 + shipping.

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Argyle nails in black, red and white

As you might know I have a huge archive of my manicures and now when being in Germany with what it feel like a huge amount of time of doing nothing I feel the urge to get them "edited" (normally cropped/tagged) and ready to get published. Especially since I just recently bought a Canon 550D and it would feel weird to mix new and old photos since I guess that the quality might differ. I have mentioned it several times before but all my photos here are taken with a regular cell phone camera.

This is a nail art I did a year ago. Some time I plan my nail art's before I make them, and sometime the half time result looks so good that I wear it for a day or two before I add the rest of the nail art.This is one of those, the end result you can see HERE. And this is the half time result, which I think look quite fun too. :D

Polishes used:
Claudia  - 607
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Jordana Pop Art - Contemporary White
Nordic Cap - NP12

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Iron Fist nail art

Woopsie, no post yesterday, had things prepped but time flew by too fast and at the night I was too tired. So let's start by taking a look at no. 25 in the 31dnc, which is inspired by fashion. For this theme I decided to be inspired by fashion I like and this time by a brand called Iron Fist and their high heel shoes. I really liked the result, and I hope you do too. :)

And below my source of inspiration:

Source

Polishes used:
Claudia  - 607
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Jordana Pop Art - Contemporary White
Nordic Cap - NP12

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Fight Club nail art

No. 23 in the 31dnc is "inspired by a movie" and I decided to create a Fight Club nail art. I made it quite simple, with one black side and one white side symbolizing the two "sides" of the main character(s) and some red splatter symbolizing some blood as you might have guessed. ;) Enjoy!
Almost forgot, at nail art sunday there is more nail art. :)

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP12
Nordic Cap - NP13
Kleancolor - Blood
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Jordana Pop Art - Contemporary White

And let's finish up this post with a movie quote:

source

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