Tape manicure in silver and white

Here I have another tape manicure much inspired by the one in silver and red which I showed earlier. I figured that silver and white would look elegant together and I think I was correct in that assumption. ;)
Here I had shorter nails and I only made one accent nail and I must say I liked the silver/red one better than this one just because I preferred it with longer nails and double accents. But I like the color combination, I'll probably remake it for winter/Christmas 2014. Which one did you prefer? :)

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP13
HM Matte Metallic - Silver

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Gradient mesh nail art in blue, green and purple

Today I'll show a nail art I did for a nail art competition by Isadora, it's no longer possible to send contributions but the vote's are up. Here's a link to Isadora's website where the contest is (and it's also possible to see all entries there) and I'll also give you a link to my entry, even though I think you should vote at the one you like the best.

However, like Zara from Traces of polish and also a few other bloggers/competitors have said, I probably never would have participated if I knew that the votes where based on facebook-likes. I read through all the rules before participating but that was apparently a secret until after the voting started. Now it has become to be a popularity contest with reminiscent from middle school at the gym and being picked last (as Zara pointed out). There's a lot of really good entries that almost haven't got any votes, especially the earlier ones. And another thing I dislike is that the ones who noticed this competition early (not me) and sent their entry's early gets punished for it because the first page only show the last entries and to be able to see the other ones you have to click "older" and there's about 5 slow loading pages to go through. Now maybe some of you will find me silly but I guess I'm old fashion in that way. I'd rather would have seen it to be a lottery where everybody has an equal chance or at least that all entry's was shown at the same page and the voting was anonymous.

BUT, let's move on to the actual nail art. I've grown attached to striping tape and this time I decided to remake this mesh nail art but with only three colors and I decided for no underlying gradient. Here or in the pages above you can find a tutorial which works for this one too. I picked an aubergine colored purple, a cobalt blue and mint green shade and I think that the colors looks unusual and cool together. I tried alternating each nail to get different looks and I liked the result. I also painted pearl rhinestones with the polishes and attached them on to accent nails but I think they got too big, I should have choose a smaller rhinestone. The pictures with the best color accuracy are the ones without flash but I wanted to include the two-hand-poses too. And as usual I hope you like it. :)

With flash.

With flash.

Polishes used:
Isadora - 739 Surfers Paradise
Isadora - 176 Creamy Aubergine
Isadora - 755 Pistacchio
4 MM painted pearl rhinestones


And speaking about competitions I actually won some polishes (by lottery haha..) that I haven't tested yet but I'll show you the bottles later today I hope. Take care!

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Old archive nails: Nailside inspired "Abstract 80's"

The sixth day of old archive nails. I'm starting to get a bit fed up showing these oldies when I got nail art's that I'm much more content about. Like during this summer I had a period I just kept creating so many awesome manicures one after another..lol I sound like such a bragger but mostly when I do nail art there's a variety of quality between my nails art's, ie. I'm less content and makes errors, however during that period I was content all the time, I guess I was filled with creative inspiration!

Nuff' rambling, right? Today I'm showing my first try at the blogger Nailside's "abstract 80's". Here you can find her tutorial. If you haven't heard about Nailside, I'd say she's the goddess of tape manis, hers are perfect, symmetrical and just damn impeccable. She make's it look simple. A sad thing is that she unexplainable have disappeared since April this year. Anyhow, below is my less good try of it. The thought of it is that the sheer/jelly polish are suppose to show through both colors and give a cool graphical effect, very much like something cool abstract 80's thing going on. Let's put it like this, my polish choice weren't the best, my tape placement and use failed miserable and also the photos are in bad light etc. These are from November 2012 and I think I should make a new try, I've practiced some with the tape, stopped using regular stationary tape (which don't work for me), I've bought a bunch of great jellies and maybe I could recreate this much better. :)

Polishes used:
W7 - Mosaic
Kleancolor - Black
(purple/pink unknown budget brand)

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Old archive nails: Taped mani with dots

Hi there!
As many of you've noticed, I 99% of the time show archive photos here at my blog. My archive is huge, even though it's getting emptier, many times I wear my nail art's for more than one day, like the one I'm wearing now (which is the spider web funky french) I'm at the fifth day! Today I'll change to something new though. Anyhow, I think the archive thing works really great with my way of blogging, I like scheduling things and preparing, that's how I'm able to post almost every single day. I'm also like this in general, I love planning stuff in advance. Now to the issue, I'm developing and mostly I try to post the "oldest" photos first so things don't get stuck in the archive. For some weeks ago I however did some cleanup in my huge archive and actually tossed away a bunch of "ugly made swatches" that I didn't think reached even my lowest standard (wrong color + weird poses and the sloppiest painting and cleanup ever). HOWEVER, I did find some old nail art, they are some what also sloppy and the execution differ from how I like my photos/manicures to look today. BUT I actually liked some of the nail art's ideas, even though the execution aren't always the best. Therefore I'm this week basically will show old nail arts. I hope you'll also will find this fun and also see that improvement does happen! ;)

Above I have a swatch of Kleancolor - Wonder Winterland (above 5 coats) but I'll do a proper re-swatch of it later, because I actually liked it despite the sheerness. I used it as a base for the below nail art below. I've basically use masking tape which I've cut thinner and then there's dots and also matte top coat. I liked the concept and colors of this. This particular photos aren't that old, I wore it in January 2013 but I have older ones for you tomorrow.

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Winter Wonderland
Kleancolor - Neon Sapphire
Kleancolor - Pastel Blue
Kleancolor - Madly Matte

I hope you'll think this will be fun to see some old, perhaps "less good photos" for this week. And as always, what do you think of this nail art?

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