NCC presents: Spring dress #3

Time flies too fast. Spring dress no 3.

Quite happy with these ones, nude/brownish base and blue flowers. And pastel blue texture polish.

Polishes used:
Kicks - The Tropics, swatch here
HM - Nude
Kleancolor - Pastel Blue

The inspo dress :)

Kicks - Moondust, swatch (matte and shiny)

Moondust is dark color shifting glitter texture from Kicks Sugar Lacquer collection from 2013. The glitter is typically teal/green but in certain angles it looks pink. In the bottle it looks even more fantastic shifting from green, teal, blue, purple, pink and all the way to gold... but that's mostly just visible in the bottle. The formula is good and it takes two coats to cover and I don't remember the drying time to be a problem. After I had tried the matte version for awhile I decided to make it shiny so 2-3 coats of tc I managed to get it smooth. (If you apply 2 coats you have to reapply tc the next day or by the evening.)

Bought at Kicks for a "buy 3 pay for 2-deal", which meant I payed about 50SEK (5 euro). The ordinary price was 79SEK (~8 euro).

Do you like this? Do you prefer it shiny/glossy or matte textured?

Shiny Kicks - Moondust with studs

Kicks - Moondust is a texture polish and I've showed this as a textured version here. But of course I wanted to see how it looked being glossy too. Said and done I went ahead and the result was marvelous, after 3 coats of tc... ;) And my pictures came out a bit crappy, especially the bottom ones, but here you have it. :)

Polishes and materials used:
Kicks - Moondust (with tc on)
Square metal studs from Born Pretty Store. (Yup, you know the drill; 3 MM square studs, found >HERE< at Born Pretty store. Free world wide shipping and 10% discount using my code; NGL91). For my original review of the studs, check this post out.)

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

Red matte glitter gradient on pastel blue

For this Nail Art Sunday I got a simple glitter gradient to show. Just recently I bought this matte glitter from Kleancolor and I really like this color combo! <3

The red glitter is called Poppy Field and consists of red matte hexagon glitter in three different sizes. The pastel blue is the texture polish from Kicks I recently showed you.

Kleancolor - Poppy Field
Kicks - The Trophics

Kicks - The Trophics, swatch

Today is was my first day at my new summer work so which me luck ;) Had scheduled this post early this morning but blogger decided not to show it.. And I didn't have the time to check if it had posted before I left home, just assumed it would work..

Today I'm showing Kicks - The Trophics, which is something as unusual as a store bought polish, it's also pretty new so you can still find it in Kicks stores. The Tropics is a pastel blue texture with tiny holo glitter+bright blue tiny glitter(maybe it should be called shimmer?). I needed 3 coats but both the holo and the shimmer drowns in the pastel, even though it looked promising in the bottle. I like the color and it's my only creme pastel texture so far. The downside is that it's expensive, one bottle is 79sek, which is about 8 euro. If they would have been way cheaper I probably would have bought the whole collection, now I ended up with this and another one. For more blue polishes, check out Blue Monday.

Below you see 2 coats of tc and it gets fairly smooth and the holo/blue shimmer shows a bit more. In the bottle you can also see some of that blue shimmer more clearer. The "black glitter" you see in the bottle (if you look super close) is the holo glitter which reflects darkness.

What do you think? Got any more proposals of creme pastel textures like this?

Studded texture nail art

No. 21 in the 31dnc is texture and I took one of my newest textures (which I've worn multiple times but I haven't shown it in a proper swatch here at the blog yet.). This texture, called Kicks - Moondust, is in their Sugar Lacquer collection and has a dark (I guess black) base and a color shifting glitter in it. The glitter is typically teal/green but in certain angles it looks pink. In the bottle it looks even more fantastic shifting from green, teal, blue, purple, pink and all the way to gold... but that's mostly just visible in the bottle. Anyhow, when I took the photos of this I had bad light conditions and better photos (from the first time I had it on) will come in a future swatch post. For the 31dnc I decided to pimp it up with studs to make it even more rough and rocker like. I like the result even though I think I could have done a better job with the glue at some of the studs.

This picture is with flash.

Bonus pic just to show the color shift potential in the glitter.

Polishes and materials used:
Kicks - Moondust (with tc on)
Square metal studs from Born Pretty Store. (3 MM square studs, found >HERE< at Born Pretty store. Free world wide shipping and 10% discount using my code; NGL91). For my original review of the studs, check this post out.)

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