Hawaiian pineapple palm tree nail art in orange and black

Hi, today's nail art is done for a couple of nail art challenges on instagram. There's always a few nail art challenges going on and a fun way of making them is to combine the different themes. I choose to combine Hawaiian + Palm trees + pineapple + orange, all in one manicure since I figured that they suited each other.

So basically I did a gradient with yellow, light orange and darker orange, then neon yellow glitter on top. Then I freehanded the pineapples and palm trees on top. I also decided to frame the design with white, and then matte top coat on top. Not sure about the white frame though, what do you think?

Polishes used:
Dance Legend - matte top coat
Lavelle - 242
Essence - Have Fun
KIKO - 822
Essence - Polka Holga
R de L Young - White
R de L Young - Black

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Simple neon nail art

Hi lovely readers and followers! :) I'm finally back. It has been nice taking some time off from the whole blog thing and I've been really busy working almost all the time. I still am, but now everything is in phase. And I've missed blogging and reading blogs. Will try to answer comments today and tomorrow. :)

Today it is Nail Art Sunday, an occasion I hate missing so I thought it would be a nice idea to start blogging with that! ;) Lela has decided that "Neon" is the theme of this Sunday and I had tons of ideas. I went with a simple idea, a simple layering with a neon glitter polish and neon metal studs. The neon polish is Lush Lacquer - Neon Lights, which I've swatched before, and as most of the LL's the application is hard so I layered it over a white creme, ended up with two coats but it looked more neon with just one. I liked the result of this, it looks like a children's birthday party or clown outfit, but I don't mind, neon is always cool! ;)

Polishes and materials used:
Nordic Cap - NP13
Lush Lacquer - Neon Lights
Square metal neon studs from ebay

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Humblebee gradient

Now it's time for the last post in the 31dnc, better late than never, right? ;) I've worked more than usual and lots of things are going on, like it should be I guess. The blog and actually the whole internet has been the things which has been sacrificed in all this. Anyhow, no. 31 is "favorite polish / polish with a story". I decided to take one of my favorite polishes and tell how coincidental it was that I got it. My polish of choice is Ninja Polish - Humblebee. And how I got it? I was shopping at Ninja Polish, with the main goal to get Floam (which I also did) among some other polishes too. At the end I decided I needed one more polish to fill up the shipping and just stumbled upon Humblebee and put it in the shopping bag. And then it turned out to be a favorite, way more than Floam.

I've tried Humblebee as a funky french which I adored and must do again because I liked it and I would also like to take newer and better pictures of it. Inspired by the Halloween Floam; Spooky Floam which I did an inverted gradient of, I knew I wanted to do the same with Humblebee. I decided to make a white base which looked great even though the neon yellow didn't pop as much as I wanted. I can imagine that a purple or gray base will look cooler.

Polishes used:
Ninja Polish - Humblebee
Nordic Cap - NP13 (white)

Summary of all 31 days will come soon :)

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