31DC2013 Day 18; Matte half moon nail art with gradient

First I didn't understand what a half moon was but soon realized that it's the same as a very high smiley for a funky french. I knew I wanted to make some sort of a gradient and also soon realized that the thing I wanted to do had been done by The Nailasaurus just to mention one of all who'd done it. That didn't stop me though and I decided to use pastel purple and gray as my two colors (I really like having gray in nail art's now days). Since I don't have a template or round stickers of some kind I free handed my half moon and then sponged like crazy, it didn't end upp to be my best gradient ever but it's like that some days. Instead of the old trusty Seche Vite I decided that this should be matte and I really liked the matte end result so here you have it;

Polishes used:
HM - matte top coat
Kleancolor - Pastel Purple
HM nail polish - Miss Stone Heart

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31DC2013 Day 17; Icy glitter gradient

Hi lovelies! I just got home from a job interview/test and figured that I deserved some fun time and I also figured that I wanted to catch up in the 31 day challenge and by posting this I'll be in phase. Day 17 propsy is glitter nails and I figured that there's a lot of ways of making glitter manicures. After a while my eye went to Lush Lacqer - Blue Gypsy (which is a glitter polish with a pastel blue base), and if you remember that post or any of my Lush Lacqer posts, the formula of the polishes are horrible and application is super messy. However, my thought was that maybe BG (Blue Gypsy) would be great for sponged gradients. Then I could control the glitter amount on each nail and also the thin formula perhaps would blend perfectly. OH, how wrong I was.. BG just continued being a mess; the glitter didn't show so well, it got really thick as the pictures shows. To hide the worst problems I painted my nails with a matte opaque white glitter and suddenly I like it much more! Suddenly my nails looked like ice and snow and the half hidden glitter from BG looked kinda cool. So what do you think about this?

And yea, a big hint, the darker blue does not look like it should in my pics, so not color accurate. IRL Beach Blue as it's called, is much more aqua, it's a blue with green in it without being a teal or turquoise. BG looks like it should though. In general I don't like these pics so much, the light is very off.. Hopefully you can see past this.

Polishes used;
Oopise Daisies - Zeus
Kleancolor - Beach Blue (as I said, not color accurate in the pictures)
Lush Lacqer - Blue Gypsy,

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31DC2013 Day 16; Neon tribal nail art

According to the 31 day challenge today is all about tribal print. I really like tribal prints on nails, it's very versatile however this is only my second nail art with it. The previous one you can see here and I pretty much used the same "pattern" even though as I said the variation possibilities are huge. I early decided that I wanted a neon yellow and from that grew the rest, from the crackle polish (which I think work excellent here looking like dried clay) and the pattern came. This time I choose to make the nail art layout the same on each nail and the pattern is slightly different on each nail. So here you have it;

Polishes used;
Isadora - Latte queen (crackle)
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Kleancolor - Funky Yellow
Nordic Cap - NP13 (as a base for the neon to make it extra bright)

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31DC2013 Day 15; Delicate and subtle rose print nail art

Now I've reached the mid of this challenge, and the prompt is "delicate print". When searching for delicate print in google there's almost nothing not nail related about it, it doesn't seem to be a really widely accepted expression outside the nail community. However to really get in to it, what I think of when I hear delicate are elegant, subtle, exquisite, fragile, refined etc.. and also a bit romantic, the few examples I'ves seen with a delicate print was with some feminine rose pattern curtains or pillows.

From this I decided that my color scheme should be pale and I chose some nude beige pink color and made the most subtle gradient ever with white. Then I freehanded white roses all over. I'd like to say that I accomplished to make this as a delicate print, and I'm very content with the result.

I forgot to take pictures of the bottles but polishes used was:
Kleancolor - Sheer Pastel Nude
Nordic Cap - NP13 (white)

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31DC2013 Day 14; Rhinestone flower nail art combined with lace nail art

Hi, this is my longest post ever and if you can bare through whole this post you'll understand why.. ;)

Today's propsy in the 31 day challenge is flowers. I had this really cool and minimalistic idea and like many of the manicures I've shown in the challenge I went for something simple to recreate for those of you who think nail art is interesting but hard to do. This flower nail art, pretty much anyone could do, you only need a basecolor and two colors of rhinestones. I chose gray (again) background and black and red rhinestones which in my eyes looks like a poppy!

This is part 2; when I was waiting for this mani to dry I realized that Lelack had a theme which was "lace" on Nail Art Sunday and of cause I wanted to join both the challenge and the theme. If I would have read her theme in advance I would have done something different but this time I didn't want to redo my whole manicure so I just added the lace to the original nail art. I freehanded my lace so it would look like a high smiley funky french.

Polishes used:
HM nail polish - Miss Stone Heart
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Red and black 2MM rhinestones

So, congratulations if you got this far! ;) Which one did you like the best? Have you tried making rhinestone flowers before? Also hope that you all have had a great weekend and will have a nice Sunday!

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31DC2013 Day 13; Fox nail art

Oh my, what is this? A second post? Yes, it is, maybe you've seen that I'm a bit ahead with this challenge hence that I mostly schedule all posts early in the morning, because believe me, I'm not up that early! ;) And since I don't mind catching up the dates (since I started this some days behind) you'll now get day 13, which is animal print. I didn't want to do the regular (leopard spots or zebra stripes which I btw adore) and I really wanted to challenge my self with something different. Then I saw this amazingly cute fox nail art on pinterest and decided to make my own take on it. Which meant that I cartooned it a bit..haha And I hope you understand how I interpret animal print and fox. A fox really don't have a print per ce, but still with the color and white tipped tail it's still impossible to not interpret it as a fox. Oh well, you get the picture. And yea, I think this is simply so cute and lovely! <3

I actually made a very subtle gradient with the white and the blue which is barely visible in the pics. The rest is done with a dotting tool and fine liner.

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP13
Kleancolor - Black
Kleancolor - Pastel Blue
Kleancolor - Mango
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark

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31DC2013 Day 12; Colored stripes on gray

Hi, we've arrived to day 12 which is striped nails. Since I realized how much I love gray and popping colors on top I decided for some free hand stripes (first I was thinking of striping tape). I wanted to keep the whole thing some what minimalistic so I only made the stripes on the tip and also diagonal to make it more interesting. At the end I realized that I wanted to spice it up with some rhinestones at the accent. I also hope the gray looks gray on your screens too because when I looked at it in my cellphone they looked more purple than gray, here they look as they should though.
Hope you'll like this!

Polishes used:
Sure Promise (pink)
L.A. Art Deco - Sky Blue
Kleancolor - Concrete Gray

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