Black and gold antique/vintage nail art

Hi! Took some more days off from the blog.. went on a fishing and camping tour with my family. And later today my boyfriend will come here. But of course I want to show you my nails, especially when Lela has a theme at Nail Art Sunday. The theme was "antique" and I had no idea what to do at first.. Then I remembered that my mother has some antique golden polish which I wanted to use and I googled for "antique gold pattern" and decided to make a free interpretation with gold and black with a whole bunch of accent nails. I'm quite happy with the mix.

Polishes used:
ZTIZ - 9923 (gold)
ZTIZ - 6626 (black creme)
Kleancolor - Beyond Time And Space
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Metal studs rhinestones, "golden flower petal"

Iron Fist nail art

Woopsie, no post yesterday, had things prepped but time flew by too fast and at the night I was too tired. So let's start by taking a look at no. 25 in the 31dnc, which is inspired by fashion. For this theme I decided to be inspired by fashion I like and this time by a brand called Iron Fist and their high heel shoes. I really liked the result, and I hope you do too. :)

And below my source of inspiration:

Source

Polishes used:
Claudia  - 607
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Jordana Pop Art - Contemporary White
Nordic Cap - NP12

Gradient mesh nail art in blue, green and purple

Today I'll show a nail art I did for a nail art competition by Isadora, it's no longer possible to send contributions but the vote's are up. Here's a link to Isadora's website where the contest is (and it's also possible to see all entries there) and I'll also give you a link to my entry, even though I think you should vote at the one you like the best.

However, like Zara from Traces of polish and also a few other bloggers/competitors have said, I probably never would have participated if I knew that the votes where based on facebook-likes. I read through all the rules before participating but that was apparently a secret until after the voting started. Now it has become to be a popularity contest with reminiscent from middle school at the gym and being picked last (as Zara pointed out). There's a lot of really good entries that almost haven't got any votes, especially the earlier ones. And another thing I dislike is that the ones who noticed this competition early (not me) and sent their entry's early gets punished for it because the first page only show the last entries and to be able to see the other ones you have to click "older" and there's about 5 slow loading pages to go through. Now maybe some of you will find me silly but I guess I'm old fashion in that way. I'd rather would have seen it to be a lottery where everybody has an equal chance or at least that all entry's was shown at the same page and the voting was anonymous.

BUT, let's move on to the actual nail art. I've grown attached to striping tape and this time I decided to remake this mesh nail art but with only three colors and I decided for no underlying gradient. Here or in the pages above you can find a tutorial which works for this one too. I picked an aubergine colored purple, a cobalt blue and mint green shade and I think that the colors looks unusual and cool together. I tried alternating each nail to get different looks and I liked the result. I also painted pearl rhinestones with the polishes and attached them on to accent nails but I think they got too big, I should have choose a smaller rhinestone. The pictures with the best color accuracy are the ones without flash but I wanted to include the two-hand-poses too. And as usual I hope you like it. :)

With flash.

With flash.

Polishes used:
Isadora - 739 Surfers Paradise
Isadora - 176 Creamy Aubergine
Isadora - 755 Pistacchio
4 MM painted pearl rhinestones


And speaking about competitions I actually won some polishes (by lottery haha..) that I haven't tested yet but I'll show you the bottles later today I hope. Take care!

31DC2013 Day 28; Swiss flag cross stitch nail art

Today it is inspired by a flag, which in my opinion is the least fun amongst the inspired by selection, since I'm doing the Where in the world-challenge I made sure that I'd pick a flag of a country not appearing in the list of that challenge. I also remembered that Natalia from Polished Polyglot thought it was sad that neither of her home country or living country was in the list so I figured that I would chose either one of them. I went for the flag of Switzerland and got inspired by the  white cross on red background and the decided to keep it simple but still fun with two accent nails with a cross stitch pattern. As you might remember I made cross stitch pattern for day no. 7 too and I think the result was better that time, I felt a bit shakier this time making the cross and thats never a good thing. I also realized that I must purchase more red polishes, apparently this is my only bright red(!) in my whole collection..

Polishes used:
ZTIZ nail polish (red)
BK nail art color (white fine liner)

31DC2013 Day 7; Black and white cross stitch nail art

Today there's a color combination I just love in the 31 day challenge; black and white. I should really do more in the B&W, I even wore this for several days (yea, I prepped some before to be able to wear this longer). Making B&W nail art, there's an option, black base or white base. Previously I've done many white bases  so this time I wanted to make a black base with white decoration. For a long time I've also been interested in making cross stitches nail art and I figured it be cool to make it in black and white.
Since I really liked this picture spam is followed.. :D

 

I must have been very exited when doing this nail art because I forgot to take pictures of the polishes I used, however the ones I did use was;
ZTIZ nail polish (black)
BK nail art color (white)

Double gradient mesh in yellow, pink, green and blue

It's nail art Sunday and Lela decided that the theme for this Nail Art Sunday was "gradients". I love gradients so it was a welcome theme for me. I've also been thinking of doing this nail art since I saw it at Chalkboardnails, but as you might understand I figured that it would be time consuming and hard so I guess I needed the push from Lelack's theme to actually accomplish it. ;)

And yes, I know I exaggerate with the number of photos but I couldn't choose amongst them and I also think that my dominant hand turned out to be the best, because I did that one last. So you'll have to live with it and just scroll. :)

There's not much to say except that I used yellow and pink gradient as base and then taped my nails and then made a green and blue gradient on top.

This is my first try with nail art tape and I must say I really liked it. It's so adhesive comparing to stationary tape and I will definitely try it on more even though I almost died doing this nail art. It's the first time I've actually wanted to finish the nail art with out completing it but I liked the result so then I was forced to do the rest of my nails.. ;)

As you can see from some photos of my left hand the green isn't opaque enough which makes it looks too transparent. I made more "gradient coats" on my right hand.

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Pastel Pink
China Glaze -Happy Go Lucky
China Glaze - Def Defying
China Glaze -  Bahamian Escape

Hope you liked it! :)