Black and silver leopard nails + makeup haul

 Oh I've been lazy. I've been so tired this week and at Thursday even I understood why, full bursting cold with all the nasty effects of it. I'm still not good, but think I'll go to work tomorrow anyhow.

Anyhow, I've got 4 manis posted on my IG while nothing happened here. So let's change that. :) First out is my black and silver leopard mani which was inspired by the mascara I recently bought. :D

Here's what I bought, foundation primer (kicks), foundation(maybelline), mascara(kicks), eye liner (kicks), lipstick pencil (kicks), matte powder (isadora), and eye shadow primer (kicks). Basically a lot of Kicks products. So far I've tried most of the stuff. Worth mentioning is the the foundation primer which actually works really well. The lipstick pencil is great except that it dries my lips after a while. And the eye liner last without ever smudging, but is also a bit harder to applicate as I'm used to a pencil, not a marker tip. And well, the foundation, mascara and powder I've used before and they work great for me. :)

Polishes used:
Essence - City Girls Rocks (LE)
Gina Tricot - Black

Dance Legend - Machete, swatch

Hi, today I'm showing a swatch of Dance Legend - Machete. I'm using archive pics and this was the base of my heart beat nail art way back. I got Machete from my dear friend @lakobotan and this is unique in my stash. Machete is part of a Steel collection from 2014 which is filled of smooth metallics, where machete is one with warm beige undertones. I think I used 3 coats for this and as usual I topped it of with Seche Vite. Really like it! :D

Gift.

NCC presents: Monochromatic in black

Hi, a quick post showing my 3rd post for last month's theme "monochromatic nail art" and I'm SO content how this came out, even though the pics did turn out darker than irl.

Basically I used a metallic black and then pained lines in creme black. The effect was subtle much much visible irl. Simple but really enjoyed wearing this!

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Metallic Black
R de L Young - Black

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Dotticure gradient in metallic red and blue

Hi there, my blogging is going slow this month. Unexpected events has been doing its toll and sadly I haven't had time to focus much on any of the fun things I love doing. There is a lot of "have-to-do's" atm but I'm sneaking in here to let you know I'm alive and to show you some archive material. My nail status atm is horrible, they definitely need some TLC.

But, let's look at this mani, a simple dotticure (meant to be a dotticure gradient) in red and blue. A color combo I really enjoy. Hope you like it and want to keep follow me despite my low frequency posting I got now, still hoping it will get back to some normal pace soon. :)
Btw, this is also for Blue Monday. :)

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Metallic Red
HM nail polish - Blue Metal

Dance Legend - Creep, swatch

This is a polish with an interesting finish, Creep is from the HammeRing collection from Dance Legend. The finish is also that, it looks like hammered metal, like a crinkled but perfectly smooth
surface. No brush strokes since the polish seems to bubble into a pattern, without actual bubbles, if that makes sense? This is the only collection and brand I've seen this finish in. (correct me if I'm wrong).

Creep is a light blue metallic which covers in one simple coat, in the sun it also looks really bright(!) and eye-catching. Below is without topcoat since the tc ruins the effect slightly. Here I have with basecoat, but I read after that without bc the effect is even greater (Edit: Lakobotan just told me that it stains so no bc seems like a bad idea after all..All you read on-line isn't true!). I like this a lot, it's my kind of color and the effect is really interesting even though I wish it was more eye-catching and perhaps enhanced with tc, I do love wearing my mani's with tc. ;) What do you think?

This picture shows the finish almost the best, it's like irregular circular shapes.

Got this from a nail polish swap with @lakobotan.

Winter nail art in white and blue

Another nail art with the Born Pretty Store translucent "jelly candy" looking rhinestones. All on top of a gradient with Kleancolor - Metallic White. One of the metallics which rarely is talked about, just because it differs from the others being quite sheer. I've made a creme white gradient on the tip and than worked up some sort of opacity with Metallic white. I'd say that this is a winter nail art; icy nails. And some of you might remember that it's Sunday, however the swedish nail art sunday is from now in hibernation, for ever or for an unknown time.

Polishes and materials used:

Born Pretty Store 2mm Fluorescent Round Rhinestones Acrylic UV Gel Nail Decoration

Nordic Cap - NP13
Kleancolor - Metallic White

Born Pretty Store always has free word wide shipping and if you're interested in purchasing you can always use my code NGL91 which gives you 10% discount on this and/or all products at BPS. Original price is $3.83 but with discount ~$3,5.

Here's the direct link: Fluorescent Round Rhinestones Acrylic UV Gel Nail Decoration 2mm

***Some product(s) in this post has been provided for review, however it has not changed my opinion about it***

Metallic stripes and rhinestone flowers

Did this while back, last year actually and I'm really happy with the result. The stripes makes the nails look super long and I like how the rhinestones looks like flowers. :) For more nail art you can check out Nail Art Sunday.

Polishes and materials used:
5MM rhinestone in purple
2MM rhinestone in light purple
HM Matte Metallic -  Silver
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Metallic Pink
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black