Blue My Mind sloping funky french

Hello, today I'm showing a blue sloping funky french with black stripes and orange rhinestones. As you can see by the length of my nails these are archive nails. But I hope you don't mind some length differences here in the blog. :)

With some luck, if Linda accept this as blue enough, this could join Lindas Nailoramas Blue Monday. ;) But I could understand if it's too multi colored. :)

The blue is the well-known Blue My Mind from HM. A well-know fact is that some people's blue-pigmented polishes (like this one) has faded, and as soon as I got time I'll find mine and check out if mine also has faded because I suspect it has.. 

Polishes used:
HM - Blue My Mind
LA. Color Art Deco - Black
1 MM orange rhinestones

Chill out n' feeling blue

Striking title huh? ;)
And yes, for the first time I'm in for Mrs Datas Blue Monday, better late than never though! :D
What you're looking at is some "old" HM nail polish - Enchantress Emma with some flower nail art on the ring finger. I remember that it was very sheer and took about five coats to cover.

Flowers where made with a dotting tool with one end on each side, one smaller and one larger.

Polishes are:
HM Nail Polish -Enchantress Emma
Paris Memories (black)

Gala Nails stuffed with rhinestones and holo

It's Sunday, and lets skip Halloween, spiders, spider webs and pumpkins for awhile because it's Lela's nail art Sunday's with predetermined themes. The theme of this Sunday was "Gala".

As key words, my mind went to glamorous, large events, movie stars, red carpet, prom, large festivity, party, bling bling and editorial classical nails. I thought about french manicures and rhinestones. And very long nails, like Linda's from Lindas Nailorama got. However, I'm stuck with my own nails so this below is what I made. I actually made another one yesterday but realized that I'd missed the mark completely so I removed it and did this night time. :)

I don't know what to call it, it might be some sort of funky french with an "invisible" arrow.  :)

My thought was that the scattered holo could be translated into some sort of glamorous expensive long dress, silky rhinestoned all over. And maybe embellished with an open back with blue crystals. Neat and simple, yet luxurious (at least in my mind).

And amazingly the sun was shining to day allowing me to actually show you have it actually looks. In some light and pictures as you can see below the black appears more like a blackish shimmer, but I think that's cool too. :)

All pictures have one layer of topcoat over but I think I'll put one more to be able to keep this design on longer. :)

Polishes:
Kleancolor - Black (as a base for the sheer black holo)
Catherine Arley - 805 (black holo)
1MM blue rhinestones

Hope you liked it! "Gala" leaves room for a lot of interpretation so I'm very exited to see what all you others out there have done! :D

Blue gradient with black stripes

For this Saturday I have archive nails to show you, with non the less my favorite effect polish(!). My favorite is Paris Memories, but sadly I have no name of it since Paris Memories only has numbers on a paper piece at the side of the bottle which gets rubbed of instantly. I have the name/number only on few of my Paris Memories because of that.

But let's go to the nail art. I've made a gradient of a very dark blue, then added my Paris Memories effect polish over it to make a cool effect from the naked nail to the dark blue and then I painted black stripes over the whole thing.

At this point I'm not sure if I like the black stripes or not but at least it a fun idea if you don't just want to make a gradient.

And I finish of with bottle pictures. As you can see it's in a pink clear base, however when painting it over white it doesn't turn the polish into pink, what you see is the heavy amount of almost transparent glitter which glitters in a spectra from blue to purple, but there's also glitter which glitter the whole rainbow in it, so I also see some red, orange, pink and green glitter as well. But it's the most beautiful over black, almost making a star night over the nails.

However, my bottle is half empty and I can't get this anymore so I wonder if any one might know a dupe for this?

Polishes:
Paris Memories (dark blue)
Paris Memories (effect glitter polish)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black

Teal blue sloping funky french with large pink rhinestones

The ones who watched yesterday's post remember this. After I had worn it for awhile I added some more to it. And that was filling in the lines with black and I added a pink 4MM(I think) rhinestone on each nail.

Surprisingly easy to wear large rhinestones, no one fell of during the time I wore the nails actually.

Teal blue geometrical sloping funky french

The nail art for to day is this:

 I think it has some sort of retro feel to it, the blue color is almost teal. I also like the geometrical shapes that the black is creating. So overall I'm pretty content with this.

Polishes:
Sure Promise (blue)
Sure promise (black)

Nail him HM nail polish with HM crackle polish

Well, the title says it all, ie. more crackle nail polish, all made by HM! The blue is Nail him by HM nail polish and the black crackle is HM crackle polish. As I mentioned earlier today the hardest thing with crackle polish is the base. The base color must be great. I have to confess that I really like Nail him by HM, love the blue color! So here it is, a nice combination.

 

Above I've documented a little "experiment" with different kind of brush strokes. The two fingers to the left are brushed sweepingly from side to side. And the two fingers to the right are just done regularly, brushed from the top to the bottom. I prefer the regular method, I think it looks cleaner some how. What do you think?

And a little review about the HM crackle polish. I think it is okay, it dries fast, and it also make the polish below drier (if you just painted it). However I must say that I think that Isadora graffiti makes better crackle. I think the formula holds a better quality, has all the good features that HM's crackle polish has but makes a better pattern. But that's just my opinion. I actually gave my HM crackle polish to my mum. :)

Nail him

This is a blue sloping funky french with HM’s ”Nail him” with thin black lines. The base color is a thin layer of what I think is the brand “lizzie” (old bottle whit out labels), which is a pink shimmery nail polish.

A clean and simple design which I like a lot and often end up making when I’m in a hurry or want something simple.