Holo glitter gradient and a rhinestone bow nail art

Just a little quickie with my new years nails. A holo glitter gradient and a rhinestone bow. :) Crappy photos but this was so beautiful IRL. :)

Polishes used (forgot to take pics of that)
Essence - Black Is Back
NYC - Starry Silver Glitter
2MM rhinestones in blue and clear

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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NCC presents; recreating member designs; Blacken Roses inspired by The Polish Playground

So, because of my computer "problems", the "tea issue", I'm behind on the Nail Challenge Collaborative.. This month it's Recreating member designs in honor of our 3rd Anniversary. I haven't been around for 3 years in the group but scrolling through the different folders with themes have been fun. Since I have a weak spot for  black and white I decided for a mani from the B&W folder for my #1. I decided on a look created by The Polish Playground which she calls Blacken Roses.

Mine is not a dead on exact copy, first of all I don't have a rose pattern to stamp, and I created a bow of my own with rhinestones. However, I think it's clear from what I got inspired by! I made a white base, then freehanded black roses and created a bow with rhinestones and silver metallic beads. I just LOVED wearing this! :D

Polishes used (forgot to take pics, sorry ;))
Essence - Wild White Ways
R de L Young - Black (fine liner polish)
2 MM clear rhinestones
Silver metal beads

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Lucia nail art/ red bow nail art

Already forth theme of WinterNAC and this time the theme is "Lucia/Christmas where you live". Lucia is a tradition which I've seen isn't common world around. I choose the clothing from Lucia (she has a white dress and a red bow/sash around her waist) and made it quite simple with a a bow stamping using MoYou N01 and their Special red polish on top of a white base. I've also freehanded some thin red lines. I'm really happy with the result and also proud that I managed to make the bows as straight as here, improvement! :)

Polishes and materials used:
Kleancolor - White
MoYou special red polish
MoYou Image plate N01

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The picture above gives some directions of the look of the participants of the Lucia tradition (minus the colored collar and shoes, generally the collars are white and the shoes are like any of choice, probably dark/black) Here is some info in english; link.

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

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