Red flower nail art on pastel pink base

Here's one of my "signature flower" nail art. I combined 2 IG challenges which was pastel and red flowers. I liked the whole thing, and then I used the Viva La Diva matte top coat...which make me hate every mani I've applied it on so far. The VLD matte tc basically makes it semi matte, I really prefer super matte or shiny, not semi-matte/semi-shiny. Oh well, Showing this one anyhow. :)

Polishes used:
Gina Tricot - Black
Gina Tricot -White
Adena  - no. 11
KIKO - #330
Wet n Wild - I red a good book

Claire's - Ditsy Floral Blue, swatch and layering

Here's a fun matte glitter from Claire's. They're a brand I've started to like since I found it in Germany.

Ditsy Floral Blue has matte middle tone floral shaped glitters, matte hot pink hexes, semi matte metallic hexes and matte white and super light matte pastel blue hexes combined with tiny white hexes in two sizes, all in a clear base. Below is two coats and the flower glitter was very easy to get up, no fishing required at all. As for application I dabbed the flowers a bit, as you do with big glitters. I decided to layer this over KIKO - 330, a warm toned pastel purple and I think the result looks really cute. Top coat is a must since of the glitter size.

Bought Ditsy Floral Blue at Claire's for 3.99 euro.

KIKO - 330, swatch

Here's a warm toned pastel purple creme from KIKO called 330. 2 coats and easy application. I like it a lot!

 
Bought it on some sale, 2 euro I think?

NCC presents: Glittery gradient on pastel purple

Here is my second for the Nail Challenge Collaborative with the theme purple. This time I decided to use a pastel purple, or violet color and embellish it with a holographic and silver/blue glittery gradient. I actually really liked this, even though it felt a bit unexpected. This is also the same glitter polish I used for my NYE nail art, then I used a black base and it was interesting to see the glitter on a light background.

This is the most color accurate pic of the purple.

Polishes used:
lol, this time it seems like I accidentally deleted my "polish pic" and the only one I had left was the pic with the names which I usually also take, but for my own reference. Decided to post this one anyhow. ;)
NYC - Starry Silver Glitter
Essence - A Whisper Of Spring

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2015 31DC2015 - Day 15; Delicate print with subtle stamping

Can you believe that we are mid through the 31 day challenge and today we have landed at delicate print. Somehow I've always felt that delicate print is synonymous with stamping of some sort, and also pale or tone in tone colors. So said and done I did some with stamping on top of this ultra pale pastel green polish. The white stamping is always invisible on the photos even though it looked better IRL. A major fail here was that I didn't clean my scraper perfectly so when scraping I without noticing got residues of another polish, I guess you can see it? This is not my favorite of the bunch so far, mainly because of that.

Polishes used:
MoYou's special white nail polish
Essence - Mint-Blowing, swatch here
Born Pretty Store image plate - BP-73 with itemID: 20790

Here's my code NGL91 for Born Pretty Store where you can find nail art like stamping plates but also much more. The code works for non-discounted products. Also free shipping on all orders.

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Essence - Be My Marshfellow, swatch

This is so not my type of color..Almost regret buying this. But anyhow, Be My Marshfellow is from Essence's LE Fun Fair collection and is like the others chalky matte and has a candy scent. This one smells like ice cream or well, maybe marshmallow? It's a super sweet artificial scent, not overwhelming but you can definitely feel it. The color is a varm pastel pink, like a pink with orange in it, salmon like, or what you used to make "skin color" on white people when drawing as a child. In the bottle I also see a soft shimmer which is completely invisible on the nail. This one needed 3 coats, whilst its green buddy only needed two. What do you think? Do you like this color?

Price: 10ml/1,79€ which I bought at Rossman.

Essence - Mint-Blowing, swatch

Mint-Blowing is part of the LE Fun Fair. It claims to be satin matt and candy scented. The color is the palest of pastel green, it could definitely be mistaken for off white, especially in sun light. So brace your self Karin, it is green, I promise! ;) For more green mani's you can check out Green Wednesday.
In the mint pastel green shade there is also some sparse shimmer, but that only shows in the bottle. On the nail it looks like a pastel creme.

The result looks more chalky matte than satin matte, but it looks nice still. But sure, I prefer matte top coats over matte polishes for a much more even surface. Without tc if feels a bit unforgiving if you know what I mean. Mint-Blowing had the scent of mint, the scent was strong but not bothersome (unless you're eating a sandwich xD) when freshly painted and is almost gone the day after. The formula was butter like and easy to control, almost reminded me of acrylic paint and I needed 2 simple coats. Drying time was on the slower side since I didn't use tc, obviously. I'm surprisingly happy with this polish even though it feels like a spring polish more than a summer polish, think I'm more into brighter shades during August.

Price: 10ml/1,79€ which I bought at Rossman.