Snowman nail art

Now I'm back to business, more or less at least. ;) With my new part time job I must make sure to be efficient to be able to get time for everything I want, like blogging and nail related stuff. I'd also like to thank you all for all the nice comments I've got, yesterday I answered 66 comments which had dropped in here while I was gone. <3

Today I'm showing you the 3rd theme in Loving Cosmetic's Christmas Challenge which is "snowman".
 For this I freehanded a snowman on my ring finger and made an inverted gradient with a polish called "Melted Snowman" from the brand Ninja Polish. I've actually done a similar nail art last year which you can see HERE. For the glitter gradient I had to dab the brush a lot but I think it came out kinda cool. On top I have 2 coats of Seche Vite to make the surface smooth. I also couldn't resist making them matte which you'll see in the end. As you can see I've also actually cut my nails 4-6 mm's yesterday so now I'm rocking much shorter nails but I think the snowman nail art worked anyhow or what do you think? Which one did you like the best, matte or shiny? :)

I just love the subtle shimmer in Melted Snowman combined with the white and black hexes in different size and the string glitter in orange and brown. Christmas and winter like and fun. :D

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP12Nordic Cap - NP24
Nordic Cap - NP13
Ninja Polish - Melted Snowman
Sure Promise (orange)
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark

Black and white skittelette

Nail Art Sunday at Lelack and today's theme is "skittelette". When I first heard about the "new thing" (a couple of months ago) and learned what it was I was a bit surprised, because it was something old but just with a new fancy name, the old accent nail(s) was re-vamped. But with that said, I love manicures with accent nails and skittelettes has become a trend which means many people does it, which means that I have an easier access to nail art I like. I don't like all skittelettes out there though, a few are too incohesive. With that in mind I decided to color match my skittelette to make it super-cohesive. I think I'm quite happy with the result, it's black and white, and that always work even though I still wonder if it wouldn't have been better with black creme nails.

The rules of a skittelette apparently are to have two accent nails with some sort of decoration/design, one glitter or texture nail and two creme polished nails in any order even if the above seems to be the most common skittelette order.

Polishes used:
HM - 
Nordic Cap - NP12
Nordic Cap - NP13
W7 - Salt N' Pepper
diamond shaped metal stud rhinestones

What do you think about skittelettes? Are there any you don't like? Have you tried it? Did you like my black and white version? Looking forward to hear from you. ;)

Gray union jack nail art

It's Sunday and Lelack's Nail Art Sunday and this time the theme was "Union Jack". I was really happy when I heard the theme, because it's one of my favorite themes on nails even though this is only my third attempt. I knew from the start that I wanted to make it gray, or more like gray, black and white because I think it look so cool. Also I've made a normal colored one before and one in gold as well.

 First out is the shiny version which I finished of yesterday with SV.

Shiny can be nice too, but then I decided I wanted to try it out matte as well.

I used HM Matte Top Coat on my left and I also tried Kleancolor - Madly matte on my right hand.

 I loved the matte version.

I highly recommend you not to use Madly Matte after you've used SV. For some reason it cracks everything up like a crackle if SV is applied before. This time SV was allowed to dry for about 10 hours so everything was definitely dry all way through. I had to fix my right hand to save it so sadly it didn't end up as smooth as my left hand. Now I know till next time, lesson learned.

Polishes used:
HM - Miss Stone Heart
Jordana Pop Art -Black Mark
Jordana Pop Art -Contemporary White

Did you liked the shiny or the matte version? Have you tried out Kleancolor Madly matte? :)

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