Holo gradient funky french in blue

Well, I've been going through my archive and found these oldies from 2013 and it's time to show them. I have showed them with snowflakes on before but I think I liked them more like this. For more blue manicures, check out Blue Monday. The rainbows are subtle but I like this. :) What do you think?

Above is shot in flourecent light and below are the ones in natural light, the holo effect is less visble but still there. :)

Polises used:
Catherine Arley - 676 (not included in the picture:()
China Glaze - Sensuous
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Dark Blue
Kleancolor - Neon Aqua
Gabrini Elegant - 352
HM Nail Polish - Enchantress Emma

Holo snowflake funky french

Let's look at my Holo snowflake funky french which I did in the beginning of this winter. It's basically a blue and white gradient with white freehanded snowflakes. And then a holo top coat holo polish on top of the smiley. Not super holographic especially in shadow/natural light but still a valid contribution to Holo Friday. What do you think? :)

Polises used:
Catherine Arley - 676
China Glaze - Sensuous
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Dark Blue
Kleancolor - Neon Aqua
Gabrini Elegant - 352
HM Nail Polish - Enchantress Emma
BK nail art color (white)

Halloween devil fimo nail art on holo background

Hi, hope you all will have a great Friday! I feel very happy today because my brother visited me yesterday, we ate pizza and talked about stuff in general. I don't see him that often since we live far from each other but now he was close by since of work. Another nice thing is that me and my bf are going to visit my parents this weekend. Something more blog related is that I feel like such a bad blogger at the moment, I have only had a limited time for reading and commenting other people's blogs and even answer comments on my own blog. I feel lucky that I've been some days ahead with the halloween theme, otherwise it would have been impossible. First I was going to show you another nail art but then I realized that I'm actually are wearing a holo nail art at the moment and since it's Holo Friday at Skimmerskuggan I changed my plans and decided to show that one instead.

When I started with this I had some other plans and started of by making a gray gradient. The gradient turned out a bit bleh..so I decided to use a gray holographic polish on top and then use some devil's like fimos (I think they're devils at least?) as decoration. This time I decided to have the fimos on all nails. I actually liked the result quite more than I first thought. Oh, and btw, I want to excuse in advance, the photos are mostly taken under a lamp so they aren't the best...

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Pelican Gray
Nordic Cap - NP24
Gabrini Elegant - 338
Catherine Arley - 667

Dotted gradient in red and blue

For the last day in the Vintage Challenge with the theme nail art with a vintage polish or polishes used during the week. For this I have a simple dotticure to show with Gabrini Elegant - 325 as a base. I dotted red metallic/shimmer in different sizes to form a gradient of the dots, from larger to smaller dots.

Polishes used:
Gabrini Elegant - 325
Kleancolor - Jewelry Red

As I said this was the last day of the Vintage Challenge and I'd like to thanks to Little Miss Nail Polish and Polished Marvels! Hope everyone has enjoyed following the challenge this week. Next week I'll post regular posts and everything will get back to normal:)

Gabrini Elegant - 325, swatch

It's a new week and a fun thing is that I've decided to join Little Miss Nail Polish and Polished Marvles in their Vintage Challenge Week, which is to show "old" nail polishes. They've decided a special order in colors and some simpler rules and more info can be found here. And since it's blue for today I'm joining Lindas Nailorama Blue Monday.

The polish of today is Gabrini Elegant - 325. I bought it in Crete for about 3 years ago and this is actually the first time I try it on in an full manicure and not only in a nail art.

  I used three coats and application was smooth. It do show some brush strokes but it doesn't bother me.

I first thought it was douchrome but it's really just another color of the shimmer I guess. So basically I'd call it a blue shimmer polish with cyan blue shimmer.

I really liked this and I'm happy that I tried it :D

Braided/woven nail art in red and pastel blue

It's nail art Sunday at Lelack and of cause I'm in. There is no theme this week and I had an amazing idea but unfortunately I got the misfortune to not have any remover at home! That could be a polish nerd's worst night mare and yea, I'm not stoked, usually I always got a liter laying around but this time I don't know how I planned. My nails are painted but I've worn the same one for three days now, pretty but still. Luckily my archive is a polish/nail art-pictured filled pig so I've got a nail art to show you any how! :)

As you saw by the title I've made a braided nail art, seriously braided ;) as accent nails and then sloping funky french on the rest.

I actually was stubborn enough to make two accent nails on my dominant hand too. Of cause that hand took about fives times longer to complete if you know what I mean? ;)

I've done another one of these braided nail arts before, but this one is by far my best attempt. I will definitely make more ones.

I actually like this color combination, it feels unexpected some how.

Below you see the bottles, I've really started to like Sensuous as a base for french manicures. Gabrini Elegant (blue) I bought on a vacation to Crete for some years ago.

Polishes used:
Gabrini Elegant (pastel blue)
Sure Promise (red)
Jordana Pop Art - Black
China Glaze - Sensuous

Poisonous dart frog meets giraffe inspired nail art 2

I really liked my previous Poisonous dart frog meets giraffe inspired nail art so I decided to make another one but in different colors. This one is with neon pink and blue shimmer and I really like this giraffe print, it's so graphical. Enjoy! :)

I think I liked the other one better, this turned out darker than I thought even though this colors are more Poison dart frog than the other. And I also had longer nails last time which I personally think was nicer at least with this size of the dots.

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Love's a beach
Kleancolor - Neon Aqua
Gabrini Elegant - 325 (gorgeous blue shimmer)
Kleancolor - Black
Jordana Pop Art - Black

If you like to compare with my last Poisonous dart frog meets giraffe inspired nail art, click the picture below.

Poisonous dart frog meets giraffe inspired nail art

And if you liked it big time, there is a tutorial or it HERE. ;)

Poisonous dart frog meets giraffe inspired nail art

hihi, I love the title; poisonous dart frog meets giraffe inspired nail art, that's pretty much how I interpret this nail art design. :D

The actual occasion for this is because of nail art Sunday with predetermined themes, and this time the theme was "zoo". My first thought when I read that was to make a zebra/tiger nail art and/or a leopard nail art, but honestly I make them all the time and I wanted to challenge my self. I've seen several giraffe nail arts and I've really liked them but never tried them on my self. I've also been meaning to try making a vertical gradient which I also never have tried before. This above in combination with some makeups shortylegsbeauty have done inspired by poison dart frogs; an idea developed and well, pretty much resulted in this:

 I really like that I got the colors correct in the photos so that you can really see what I see (almost).

I really hope you liked it because I sure did! And it took like forever making all the random spots which I also afterwards think was worth it ;)

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Neon Yellow
Collection 2000 - 281 (orange with bronze/pink shimmer)
Jordana Pop Art - Black
Gabrini Elegant -338 (black)

Edit: Tutorial can be found HERE. :)