NCC presents; recreating member designs; Black and white nail art inspired by Traces Of Polish

My third manicure for the theme "recreating member designs" in the Nail Challenge Collaborative is a recreation of Traces of Polish's Black and White manicure. With the help of striping tape she created a beautiful look. But before I had read how she did it, I though she had used a different technique. Which is the one I've used here and which I'll explain below.

I started off with painting two spots with white and black on regular baking paper. Then I let it dry completely and peeled it off. I then used a scissor and cut them in stripes, and then in squares. I then used a dotting tool to pick them up and attached them on wet polish. And top coat on top. Fairly quick and a quite dramatic look with the "perfect" squares. I'm very happy with this result. :)
I'll definitely use this technique more times too..already got plans... ^^

Polishes used:
Sally Hansen - Sweet Tulip
Essence - Wild White Ways
Essence - Black Is Back

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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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Striped tribal nail art in green and white

For day 12 in the 31dnc I started with a green base (since it's Green Wednesday) and then I started making stripes with my fine liner polish, at random. After a while I realized that it started to look a bit tribal. But I don't mind, I liked the look and I'll just make something different for day 16, which is the actual day for tribal. At least it's striped enough for today I think! ;)

Polishes used:
HM - Green Street
Jordana Pop Art - Contemporary White

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Zig zag nail art in black and silver

Hi Lovelies! It's Sunday and it feels like if I've saved everything that I had to do this week until today, I wonder how I'll be able to do those 40 h at this 24 hour day.. Well it's not that bad but that how it feels.

Sunday also means something more pleasant, namely Nail Art Sunday at Lelack. This week the theme is free so I decided to show a nail art I did a week ago. Inspired by Traces Of Polishes who showed the zig zag technique at here blog, I knew I wanted to do the same. My problem was that I didn't have any zig zag scissors so I had to wait until I found one. And Zara's version was like a trillion times better than mine... I used a metallic polish and apparently it decided to do some reflective curling (you know when it look curly even though it's completely flat). And then it's that thing about cutting straight lines.. I liked my color combination, but not the fact that it doesn't look so smooth. However this is absolutely not the last time I'll try this technique and I might also try to do a tutorial for this if you want. My scissor set also contained a lot of other patterns than the zig zag pattern so there's a lot of opportunities for fun nail art looks with this! :D

My pattern scissors! Bought only for nail polish/nail art and found in the children area.
The cost was about 50SEK for this set. (about 5,25 euro)

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Sci-Fi
ZTIZ nail polish (black)

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Abstract nail art in red, blue and black

Yesterday I was too tired to schedule and today I've been busy until now. I was actually at an job interview during this morning, not to a job I actually want but hey, money is money and Christmas is coming.. Today I'll show you a brand new nail art, a NOTD and also what I wore to the interview. I wanted something classical (I decided to try the red Claudia I showed you yesterday; 607 as base) and with some tiny decoration which fell on Pretty&Polished and this is what I ended up with:
(And yea, the pictures are crappy and why you'll see at the bottom of this post...)

Polishes used:
Claudia - 607
Pretty and Polished - Boy Bleu
Jordana pop art - Black Mark

I adored the color combination with the classical red and the neon blue and black. I wasn't going to change my manicure until tomorrow at the earliest but during mid day I noticed that all nail polish was missing on my right index finger! When I got home I noticed that the nail polish seemed loose on all nails so I had to quickly photograph them in simple florescent lamp light, otherwise everything would be ruined, which is the reason why the color is a bit off to reality, the top picture is actually the most color accurate and I've already photographed 607 alone in correct light so you'll see that later. After I was done I was able to peel off all nail polish on all nails, mostly i large pieces. Normally nail polish sticks well to my nails so I hope it isn't Claudia's fault but I'll look into that (will try a new Claudia to night).

Is there any brand which make your nails peel or is it just coincidence? Any one who's tried Claudia and experienced this? And also, what did you think about the manicure? Too daring for a job interview?

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Old archive nails: Asian inspired manicure and pedicure

I'm continuing with my theme with old archive manicures found deep in the archive and today I have a matching manicure and pedicure so if you're allergic to feet or perhaps nail polish on the cuticles you might wanna close your eyes. ;) These photos are from December 2011, two years from now.

I have mentioned it before but I quite often have nail art on my toes as well, however I don't always photograph it. Again with this posts, it's fascinating to realize that I didn't see that I needed clean up for this and nowdays I really try to paint as delicate as I can to make less clean up. Anyhow, I think that the manicure pattern combined with the pedicure flowers, all in the same colors feels a bit asian. I also must say that I actually like this a lot and I must recreate this! :D

Polishes are mostly unknown, but probably;
Paris Memories (black)
L.A. Color's art Deco - Silver
L.A. Color's art Deco - Black
(Unknown red)
(Unknown white)
2MM pearl rhinestones.

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Geometrical pink glitter nail art 2

Do you remember my pink geometrical nail art I showed you in the beginning of the United in Pink? After I had tried Pink Dazzle I thought that it could look cool to use that in the same type of nail art. And since it's pink I figured that I might as well would show it during this week, even though it's a it of a replay.

This time all four nails was included and I started off with the black lines and then filled in th glitter where it should be.  I think this looked cool too, but I must say I liked the other glitter better for this combination at least. If the base would have been black this might have looked a bit better. Not the best photos either, but we'll just have to live with that! :)

Did you like this version or the previous one best?

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Hang-Ten Toes
W7 - Pink Dazzle
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark

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Geometrical pink nail art

Time for me to add some nail art in United In Pink, and one that I'm proud to come up with, I think that the effect became very beautiful with the lines and the neon and glitter. I'm also interested to try this in other colors than pink. Hope you liked this! :)

I'll probably be a bit unavailable today, I'm going to the capital as a part of a recruiting process for a job I've applied and I'll be back home very late so I don't know if I got time to read any blogs or comment or answer comments, but I've scheduled posts.

Polishes used:
L.A. Color Art Deco - Black
Pretty & Polished - Punk'd Up Betty
Kleancolor - Neon Pink

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