White disappearing leopard pattern nail art

A late post with today's nails. I'm not sure what to call it but White disappearing leopard pattern nail art will have to do. I guess it could be called negative space nail art in some ways too. This was quite simple to do, first I did a gradient using a nude jelly and a jelly white and an opaque white. Then I freehanded the leo spots on top and embellished with clear white rhinestones. Sadly the photos are after 2-3 days of wear so they aren't as fresh as I usually want then to be but I liked them and wanted to show you. :)

Polishes used:
Sally Hansen - Sweet Tulip
R de L Young - Coconut Milk
Essence - Wild White ways
2 MM clear rhinestones

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NCC presents: Versace fashion inspired needle dragging nail art

Time for my fourth manicure with the theme "inspired by fashion" for the Nail Challenge Collaborative. I got inspired of a dress from the Versace show at Paris Fashion Week earlier this year. The dress isn't something I would wear my self, but I figured it would look really cool for a needle dragging design combined with a negative space nail art idea.

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I decided to use a nude jelly in beige and a white creme for my needle dragging. (I could have used a clear polish, but a stupid KIKO polish stained my nails so I had to use something more neutralizing so a nude jelly seemed nice and basically the negative space nail art went haywire). I also decided to outline my nails with a white fine liner to create a frame, so the result would look more precise.  I'm quite happy with the result even though it could need some refinement. Let me know what you think! :)

Polishes used:
Sally Hansen - Sweet Tulip
Nordic Cap - NP13
R de L Young - White (nagel designer lack)

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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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Negative space heart nail art with Essence nail art satin matt top coat

Today I'm showing the matte version of my Stamped negative space heart nail art which I showed you three weeks ago. For more info about the actual nail art you can check out the original post and let's check out Essence nail art satin matt top coat further. And yes, "matt" isn't a typo, I guess it's because it's sold i Germany. As all matte top coats it dulls the black quite much and the "matteness" stays matte and don't  feel shiny the next day. It dries considerably slower than most matte polishes and if you apply shiny top coat on top later(like dots to create a cool nail art effect) it still look dull and almost dirty. Therefore this only works for full matte nails, so next time I'll go to Claire's and pick up another of their matte tc's. Basically this works, but it's not my favorite matte of all the ones I've tried.

Polishes and materials used:
MoYou's special black nail polish
ZTIZ (black creme nail polish)
Image plate - KD27 (russian image plate)
Essence nail art satin matt top coat

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

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NCC presents: Stamped negative space heart nail art

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I'm usually never fast with the challenges in the Nail Challenge Collaborative; it is one theme, four manicures which can be published any time during the month. Usually I do one NCC-mani/week but post them in the end (because I'm too lazy/occupied to do it asap). However this month I'm fast, and that correlates to why I was "late" last month. The theme of March is inspired by fashion and I couldn't hold my self, so did this one as soon as I knew the theme. XD

I was inspired by this dress:

And I was so hyped on trying my first negative space nail art (which if you haven't noticed are/will be the nail art trend of 2015). Said and done I freehanded hearts, I outlined them with a fine liner brush and then filled in "the blanks" creating the negative space hearts. It looked okay but I wanted some "lace" too, sadly my collection of full image stampings are a bit sparse and I didn't find something thin but still "lace like", so I ended up with these swirls. Still like it though. Trying to figure out if my nails looks discolored or not on the photos, I didn't find them that irl at least. Oh, the only downside with this is that "the apex" of the nail had so few coats so I was worried that I'd break them but luckily I didn't. Soo.. what do you think?! :)

Polishes and materials used:
MoYou's special black nail polish
ZTIZ (black creme nail polish)
Image plate - KD27 (russian image plate)

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

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