Promarker nail art

I guess most people have seen promarker nail art, sharpie nail art and well any alcohol based pencil nail art. Since I'm a fan of Promarkers, I decided to try. Sadly I don't know where to get 75%+ alcohol in germany (like isoprophanol) but I knew regular polish remover might work and I was too curious to wait. It didn't work perfect (alcohol is probably more forgiving) but I still kinda liked it. Since it was my first time I decided to just make a skittelette and try many colors in one go. My favorites where definitely my gray thumb (right hand) and my red and black little finger (left hand). What do you think? Have you tried the technique?

Polishes and materials used:
Nordic Cap - NP13
Various Promarker pencils (and polish remover and a flat nail art brush)

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Butterfly stamping in gray/grey, black, pink and blue

Figured I might as well show the second version of my butterfly stamping manicure (which I showed you yesterday) too. I decided to make a gradient i black over the accents and then do a stamping in black, creating a disappearing pattern. And then a butterfly in each color on top. Then I liked this version better but today I liked my other version better. XD Which one did you like best?

Polishes and materials used:
La Femme (gray creme)
Kleancolor - Yogurt Raisins
Kleancolor - Black
MoYou special pink polish
MoYou special blue polish
MoYou N07 Image Plate 
MoYou rhinestones 2 MM in light pink and blue

If you buy a nail art set, any of you choice, you can pick one polish OR one image plate of your choice if you use the code CEL246. Which polish or the number of the image plate you want, you write at the comment section at the checkout. You can use the code as many times you want, as long as you buy a nail art set. :D

***Some products in this post have been provided for review***

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Butterfly stamping in gray/grey, pink and blue

Yesterday it was 19 degrees in the shadow and I saw a the male version of a Common Brimstone (what we in sweden call Citronfjäril). Inspired by that I decided to bring out some photos of some of my first successful stamping attempts with my MoYou stamping kits (photos from September last year). As I've told you before I was happy to receive some plates, stamping polishes, stamper and scrape from MoYou to try out. Since then stamping has been so fun! I like the mix of colors and even though the butterflies aren't aligned perfectly I'm still very happy with this. This is also from my first attempts with my (then new) camera (canon 550d), before I only used my phone so below are a mix with both camera and phone photos. (I'd say that my phone did a quite good work producing pics, below it's not overly obvious to know which are done with phone or camera. Take a guess if you like ;) Now the lens on my phone is scratched so I can't even if I wanted to take photos with it.)

Polishes and materials used:
La Femme (gray creme)
Kleancolor - Yogurt Raisins
MoYou special pink polish
MoYou special blue polish
MoYou N07 Image Plate 
MoYou rhinestones 2 MM in light pink and blue

And as you can see I have another version of this mani (the one below) which I'll show more photos of soon. :)

If you buy a nail art set, any of you choice, you can pick one polish OR one image plate of your choice if you use the code CEL246. Which polish or the number of the image plate you want, you write at the comment section at the checkout. You can use the code as many times you want, as long as you buy a nail art set. :D

***Some products in this post have been provided for review***

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P2 - Dating Time, swatch

P2 is a brand which isn't mentioned much, but the things I've heard are only good things and happily it seems true. P2 quite cheap with only 1.75 euro for its 11ML bottle. Dating time is a vamp dark red creme, reminding me of blood. A very elegant and deep color. The formula was creamy and pigmented and almost covered in one coat but the second really gave depth to the color. I can't wait to try the other colors if this only needed 2 coats and also dried pretty quick! :D

Bought at DM in germany for 1,75 euro.

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Neon leopard nail art + matching pedicure

Today I have some nails from last summer, I've been a bit reluctant with these because they come with a bad memory, not with the nail art though. While I had these on I did some acrylic nails on a work buddy and I got an allergic reaction even though I was super careful, I think I accidentally nudged a piece of paper which acrylic acid while cleaning away the stuff (because I had gloves on during the whole thing). Anyhow, to make a long story short, the allergic reaction made my cuticle itch terrible and I got tiny little bumps on the skin around my nails (it doesn't show so much but if you look carefully you can see it in some of the photos). After the photos I removed my polish and went no-polish for a week or more to really make my nails relax from any chemicals. I also went crazy and oiled constantly. One thing is for sure, I wont touch acrylics again, I'll stick with nail polish. ^^

Anyhow, to the nail art; I did a gradient with neon green, yellow and pink and then I did dots in the same colors and then filled them in leo style. Quite happy with the result.
And warning to the sensitive ones; there's one picture in the end with my matching pedicure. :)

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Hang Ten-toes
China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard
China Glaze - Sun-Kissed
Kleancolor - Black

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KIKO - 854, swatch

854 is a light turquoise green creme, it's definitely more green than blue, and therefore I call it legit for Green Wednesday. 854 is too dark for a pastel but still lighter than a regular turquoise even though it looks much darker on the nail than the bottle. The formula is super thin (as I've experienced with many KIKO's) and the round brush saves the application by miles but I still needed 4-5 coats depending on the nail to get rid of the "streakyness". These round bottles are also suppose to be fast drying but I guess that the many coats of polish makes them slow drying even with seche vite. Too bad because I liked the base color. What do you think?

Bought at a KIKO store on sale, payed like 1 euro or something like that.

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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

An InLinkz Link-up

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