ILNP - Valentina, swatch

Time for a swatch, which is the beautiful Valentina from ILNP. It's a sheer blue duochrome/multichrome polish which color shifts to pink and golden orange and yellow where the shine hits and is green and tealish at the side of the nails. Absolutely stunning imho and I like how my nails almost looks porcelain with it on. The down-side is that it's coat-hungry and below is 6 coats. I assume shorter nails could get by with less. But, this polish is also beautiful for layering so I guess for those who prefer less coats that would be an option. :)

Purchased from ILNP.com :)

Angelica - Phantom, swatch

Beautiful duochrome polish ranging from dark blue to dark green, maybe even ultra marine (dark blueish purple). Quite often it look emerald green also, like in direct sun shine. This is probably a one-coater, but some coats felt thinner and I wanted to intensify the color so below are 2 coats. Basically it's ridiculously shiny on its own with hardly noticeable brush strokes. Basically I just LOVE this one. So totally my type of polish. As usual with this pretties it was hard to capture.

Sun light pic.

Bought at Primark for £2.5 (bought it in germany though, so payed in euro, but can't remember the euro amount, but maybe 3-4 euro?)

Yes Love - P6, swatch and layering

Hi, today I'm showing a swatch of Yes Love - P6. P6 is a shimmer purple with golden duochrome tendencies. All pics are in cold light so naturally the the gold looks warmer in warmer light. I layered P6 over KIKO - 333 and used 3 coats to get the opaqueness I wanted.

I bought this in a small asian store in Germany for 2 euro. :)

2015 31DC2015 - Day 13; NCC presents: Snake skin nail art

Today I have my very first try with snake skin to share. It works great for today's 31 day challenge with the theme animal print, and also this is my third pet for the Nail Challenge Collaborative theme this month. Any one of you who've had a snake or reptile as a pet? I always wanted a snake when I was younger (I like snakes and still think they're cool but I don't feel the same wish to own one.)

I wouldn't say it's perfect in any way, this snake happens to be very shimmery and duochrome. ;) I looked at some tutorials and this is done with a net (got this net from a bag of onions from the grocery store, but also other vegetables and fruit have this net). So basically I pressed the net on top, dabbed black polish on and removed the net, same like a nail vinyl. After I sponged two sheer duochromes on top, to get some dimension. In some ways I think it looks cool, in other ways it looks like a blind retard has made it. Let me know what you think?

Closeup

With flash.

Polishes used:
Trend It Up - 040
P2 - Petrol Beat
R de L Young - Indian Feeling
Essence - Black Is Back

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2015 31DC2015 - Day 8; metallic - Gear / Sprocket nail art over duochrome polish

Today's nails is a simple stamping but I'm still happy with it. Still not perfect, I notice that the free edge of the nail is the hardest place to get the pattern on for me, when I had shorter nails, like 3MM shorter, it was way easier to stamp tbh. Today's 31dc theme is "metallic nails" and I decided to use a duochrome/multichrome base'll take more about in a future post.  I'm not sure if a chrome polish finish counts as "metallic" but here goes, also I could perhaps claim that a gear or sprocket is made out of metal.

Here's the base polish and wow how much I liked it! I love when polishes looks even better on the nail than in the bottle. I will as I said above make a swatch post of this Rival de Loop polish after the 31dc.

This and below is just bonus pics of the manicure in a different light and therefor more purple to blue looking.

Polishes used:
Rival de Loop - no 06
MoYou's special black nail polish
Born Pretty Store Image Plate BPL-022 (itemID: 20787 http://www.bornprettystore.com/geek-pattern-nail-stamp-template-image-plate-born-pretty-65cm-p-20787.html)

Don't forget you can use my 10% dicount code NGL91 for your Born Pretty Store purchases (which isn't on sale already). I've talked more about the BPL-022 HERE. For posts with inspirational BPS nail art which I've reviewed and done, feel free to click the Born Pretty Store label in the end of this post or search for it in the left side-bar of this blog.

 
***Some products in this post have been provided for review, however it has not changed my opinion about them.*** 

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R de L Young - Two Face, swatch

This is a duochrome polish going from bright cold toned purple, to bright warm toned purple and all the way to brown. I just love this polish, other duochromes with brown color shifts can easily look "dirty", but this one never does, probably because the purple base color is so bright. The shifts are also easy to see and this looks great in any lights. Also I just love R de L Young's flat rounded brush and the formula was awesome. I needed 2 coats and I can only recommend it!  <3

I love the flat wide brush! Some of you has asked me how I get such a clean and even line close to the cuticles and it SO much simpler when the brushes are like this.

9 ML bottle and 1,3 euro at Rossman.