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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Checked pattern/tartan in red and black

A late post for Nail Art Sunday, but better late than never. Lelack decided that the theme should be “squares” and I was happy because it can be used in different checked patterns. And earlier this week Susanne at Fingerfärger showed a picture at fb with a black and red nail art by nuthin' but a nail thing, it had some checked/tartan pattern and also some black opaque rhinestones on a black base. So basically my nail art is much inspired by it, there is some changes though, my black rhinestones have some oil slick which make them shine in more colors (mine basically look metallic), also my lines ended up a bit thicker(must get a new black fine liner!) in combination that my nails are shorter than the inspo. Anyhow, I liked the result quite much, red and black is such a classical combo. What to you think? :)

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP09 (red)
ZTIZ - (black)
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Black opaque rhinestones

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Argyle nails in pink, gray and white

United In Pink continues and for today I have an argyle nail art to show you. Last month I showed argyle nails in black, white and red and this is my pinked up version. Tomorrow I'm planning to show you a tutorial of how I did this according to a request I got on facebook. :) Enjoy!

EDIT: Tutorial HERE

Polishes used:
Jordana Pop Art - Contemporary White
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Baby Pink
La Femme - Silverado(?) 32

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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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Black and gold antique/vintage nail art

Hi! Took some more days off from the blog.. went on a fishing and camping tour with my family. And later today my boyfriend will come here. But of course I want to show you my nails, especially when Lela has a theme at Nail Art Sunday. The theme was "antique" and I had no idea what to do at first.. Then I remembered that my mother has some antique golden polish which I wanted to use and I googled for "antique gold pattern" and decided to make a free interpretation with gold and black with a whole bunch of accent nails. I'm quite happy with the mix.

Polishes used:
ZTIZ - 9923 (gold)
ZTIZ - 6626 (black creme)
Kleancolor - Beyond Time And Space
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Metal studs rhinestones, "golden flower petal"

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Easter bunny pastel funky french

It's Nail Art Sunday and still some Easter vibes left. Feels like I've eaten way too little chocolate and candy for it to count. I usually try to buy some large chocolate bunny to eat but no one this year. At least I had some bunnies on my nails. This design I actually saw when googeling and decided to recreate it, check out original photo HERE.

I painted my nails with a jelly beige and then painted thin lines with pastel polishes to hide the almost naked nail. And bunnies on accent nails. I liked this design and did it in both shiny and matte. Hope you'll like it too because now I have one of those picture spams again ;)

And matte version:

Polishes used:
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Sky Blue
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Baby Pink
China Glaze - Sensuous 
Kleancolor - Pastel Purple
Kleancolor - Pastel Yellow
BK Nail Art Color (white
HM Matte Top Coat

Did you prefer the shiny or matte version? What do you think about seeing matte and shiny in the same post, do you like it or is it too many pictures? Some times I've divided it into one matte post and one shiny post, is that a better option? :) What do you think?

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