Abstract purple, black and white christmas tree nail art

I got an idea of a purple, black and white Christmas tree nail art for the Winter nail art challenge. (or well, first I had an idea of purple and black, but then revised.) The whole thing is quite abstract but I think you understand and see the tree in the middle. Also I did some glitter gradients on my other nails. I'm surprisingly happy with this. :)

Polishes used:
L.A. Girl - Uninhibited
Ninja Polish - Sticks n Stones
Essence - Beautiful Lies
Claire's matte top coat
R de L Young - Black
R de L Young - Black

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NCC presents: Christmas gift/wrapping negative space nail art

So, this month I will try to do the nail art challenges within the actual time frame. By that I decided to join two challenges today, which is the Nail challenge Collaborative with the theme "negative space" and with the Winter Nail Art Challenge and the theme Wrapping/Christmas gifts.

I had something quite clear in my mind for this, with red, gold and black combined. My main idea was the combo of gold flakes on both the naked nail and on top of the red. I also added small little bows on some nails. Quite happy how this one turned out. :)

Polishes used:
Wet n Wild - Red A Good Book/Ballon rouge
Ninja Polish - The Midas Touch
R de L Young - black
Black opaque rhinestones (I used the bows).

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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 :)

Christmas nail art

Hi, hope you all have had a nice Christmas and are continuing having a nice time off. I'm still having a cold but today I've been able to a really relaxed day and maybe I'll take a nap before dinner ;) Nice ha? So a short and quick post today. I guess most of you anyhow are doing other stuff.

Today I'm showing No. 5 in LovingCosmetic's Christmas Challenge which is Santa Claus. I decided to make something simple and graphical again and went with Santa Claus hat decorated with rhinestones. On the rest of my nails i did "snow", or in other words a white glitter gradient. The "hats" are made with striping tape to get the precision. Hope you like it. :)

Polishes used:
Smitten Polish - Huckleberry Gumdrop
Kleancolor - Metallic Red
Ninja Polish - Love, Laces 'n Lawsuits

Snowman nail art

Now I'm back to business, more or less at least. ;) With my new part time job I must make sure to be efficient to be able to get time for everything I want, like blogging and nail related stuff. I'd also like to thank you all for all the nice comments I've got, yesterday I answered 66 comments which had dropped in here while I was gone. <3

Today I'm showing you the 3rd theme in Loving Cosmetic's Christmas Challenge which is "snowman".
 For this I freehanded a snowman on my ring finger and made an inverted gradient with a polish called "Melted Snowman" from the brand Ninja Polish. I've actually done a similar nail art last year which you can see HERE. For the glitter gradient I had to dab the brush a lot but I think it came out kinda cool. On top I have 2 coats of Seche Vite to make the surface smooth. I also couldn't resist making them matte which you'll see in the end. As you can see I've also actually cut my nails 4-6 mm's yesterday so now I'm rocking much shorter nails but I think the snowman nail art worked anyhow or what do you think? Which one did you like the best, matte or shiny? :)

I just love the subtle shimmer in Melted Snowman combined with the white and black hexes in different size and the string glitter in orange and brown. Christmas and winter like and fun. :D

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP12Nordic Cap - NP24
Nordic Cap - NP13
Ninja Polish - Melted Snowman
Sure Promise (orange)
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark

Black and white glitter gradient

Pretty stoked I realized that I had two black and white manicures in the archive and I decided to take one of them for this Nail Art Sunday at Lelack where the per-determined theme was black & white. I love B&W nail art's and I'm looking forward to see what everyone has come up with.

My nail art below is pretty simple. Just some dabbing with glitter, trying to create a gradient. I've also used some loose hex glitter and tried placing them random enough to fit the gradient. As you see I have two accent nails which are color inverted, looked pretty cool to me. :)

Left hand.

Right hand.

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP12
Nordic Cap - NP13
Oopsie Daisies - Zeus
Ninja Polish - Sticks n' Stones
Black loose hexagon glitter.

And the reason why I use archive today, of all the days of the week, the weekend is (always) the time when I have the least time for anything blog- and nail related.  How is it for you? Is it some days you have more or less time to do nail related things; painting, blogging, reading blogs, comments etc? Or do you just take the time to do what you want no matter what?