Butterfly stamping in gray/grey, black, pink and blue

Figured I might as well show the second version of my butterfly stamping manicure (which I showed you yesterday) too. I decided to make a gradient i black over the accents and then do a stamping in black, creating a disappearing pattern. And then a butterfly in each color on top. Then I liked this version better but today I liked my other version better. XD Which one did you like best?

Polishes and materials used:
La Femme (gray creme)
Kleancolor - Yogurt Raisins
Kleancolor - Black
MoYou special pink polish
MoYou special blue polish
MoYou N07 Image Plate 
MoYou rhinestones 2 MM in light pink and blue

If you buy a nail art set, any of you choice, you can pick one polish OR one image plate of your choice if you use the code CEL246. Which polish or the number of the image plate you want, you write at the comment section at the checkout. You can use the code as many times you want, as long as you buy a nail art set. :D

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

Butterfly stamping in gray/grey, pink and blue

Yesterday it was 19 degrees in the shadow and I saw a the male version of a Common Brimstone (what we in sweden call Citronfjäril). Inspired by that I decided to bring out some photos of some of my first successful stamping attempts with my MoYou stamping kits (photos from September last year). As I've told you before I was happy to receive some plates, stamping polishes, stamper and scrape from MoYou to try out. Since then stamping has been so fun! I like the mix of colors and even though the butterflies aren't aligned perfectly I'm still very happy with this. This is also from my first attempts with my (then new) camera (canon 550d), before I only used my phone so below are a mix with both camera and phone photos. (I'd say that my phone did a quite good work producing pics, below it's not overly obvious to know which are done with phone or camera. Take a guess if you like ;) Now the lens on my phone is scratched so I can't even if I wanted to take photos with it.)

Polishes and materials used:
La Femme (gray creme)
Kleancolor - Yogurt Raisins
MoYou special pink polish
MoYou special blue polish
MoYou N07 Image Plate 
MoYou rhinestones 2 MM in light pink and blue

And as you can see I have another version of this mani (the one below) which I'll show more photos of soon. :)

If you buy a nail art set, any of you choice, you can pick one polish OR one image plate of your choice if you use the code CEL246. Which polish or the number of the image plate you want, you write at the comment section at the checkout. You can use the code as many times you want, as long as you buy a nail art set. :D

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

Claire's - Splatter Green, swatch and layering

Here's a polish I've bought in Germany at Claire's. They have a nice range of polish and Splatter Green interested me. Splatter Green has a super light green jelly base (but shows as clear on the nail) which is filled with matte glitter in different shapes. I see green hexagons in 2 sizes, white hexagons in 4 sizes, black hexagons in 4 sizes and also black long and also very curled string glitter. The promblem here is clearly the string glitter being curled, it looks cool when it lays down flat to the nail though. However, it feels impossible to brush down if it has curled down the "wrong" making it stick up. Here I layered it with 3 coats because I wanted it to be really glitter dense (but 1-2 coats look good too) over a light green (Essence - 03, I Hol Di Mit'm Traktor Ab). Maybe a lighter green would have looked better, the base is a dull green and the green glitter is really bright, however the nuance is pretty similar. I'll definitely try it over other colors in the future. :) A gradient from white-green-black would be super cool for example. ;)
This is also this years last Green Wednesday, so don't miss that out ;)

Polishes used:
Essence - 03, I Hol Di Mit'm Traktor Ab
Claire's - Splatter Green

El Corazon - 423/122 Fenechka, swatch

Today I'm showing the russian brand; El Corazon - 423/122 Fenechka, which is a yellow neon crelly/jelly with matte black and white glitter. I think I used 2-3 coats and application was easy. Sadly the images came out a bit crappy but I really liked the polish so this wasn't the last time you'll see this. ;) 

Oh extra info for the curious. Lakobotan tells me that "Fenechka" is the word often used for handmade bracelets. Often thiner types of bracelets. :)

From nail polish swap with Lakobotan.

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?

The abstract kiwi and passion fruit nail art

It Sunday and as usual we should show some nail art, right? For today I have archive nails even though I'm at the moment is wearing the most beautiful nail art I've ever done(!) but that one you'll see later.

Now, let's look at this:
I choose to name it as how I think about it; abstract kiwi and passion fruit nail art. As you can see it's a gradient of green and yellow and on top black and white glitter.

Polishes used:
Kubiss - 62 (yellow)
Kubiss - 63 (green)
Dandy Nails - Color Blind, which I've also used >HERE< in another gradient.

Whirled away in a green and blue gradient

Nail Art Sunday at Lelack and this Sunday the theme is free so I chose showing you a gradient I did some days ago. It's not my most seem less gradient but I like the color combination and the glitter, it reminds me of summer. As usual Whirled Away is a bit tricky to applicate as I've written about >HERE< before.
Enjoy!

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Bahamian Escape
needme PARIS Nail Polish - 12
China Glaze - Whirled Away

A colorblind gradient nail art

For Lela's nail art Sunday the theme of this week was "promises". Appropriate since we at least in Sweden have a tradition of taking new years promises at the new year. Maybe you in other countries do that too I guess? I'm not the person who make any promises though, still I knew what to do for this Sunday. I figured that a promise is close to a wish..right? ;) And I do wish that the following year will be great. So from darkness to light..Yes, I made a gradient and tried out one of my new polishes from Dandy Nails - Colorblind.

And yes, I loved this polish. It contains of 1MM black and white hexagons in a clear base. I used two thick coats for this nail art.

Polishes used:
HM Nail Polish - Miss Stone Heart
Kleancolor - Black
Kleancolor  - White
ZTIZ Nail Polish  (white)
Dandy Nails - Colorblind