Black and yellow Scottish plaid nail art skittelette

Hi, today I have a review with the Ladyqueen plaid water decal's. I received a sheet of paper which can be cut in any shape wanted, but if cutting according to my nails I could get 10 pieces, however I decided to make a skittelette nail art to make it more interesting. I painted my nails yellow to have a similar base as the water decals.

I first cut the rectangle shape of my nails and then rounded the edges to better fit my nails and to have less to remove. I used a little plate with water (the water height was like 5 mm), just enough to cover the paper. Important is to first remove the plastic before putting them in water, otherwise it might tattoo it self to the plastic..Then I used a tweezer to pick them up. The decal was easy to place since I could move them around and slide them into position. The water decals where quite sheer so it was really good I had a suiting base. After I let them dry from the water and later applied top coat. My pointer, which was my first finger looked great but when I applied tc to my others they smudge some, despite me being very careful. I will have to look into methods to avoid that in the future, advices are welcome. :)

Except for water decals I did black glitter gradients and also did 3 black texture nails. I felt it was unusual for me to make so contrasting nails to a manicure but somehow I liked it.

Now pics:

Polishes used (forgot to photograph the polishes)
Essence - Love Is In The Air
L.A. Girl - Uninhibited
P2 - Black Sand
Lady Queen Plaid Water decals with item ID: #NA0184 (more colors available)

Here you see the size of the paper and the color of polish I choose for my base. The paper was enough for 10 nails on the width. Length wise my nails could have been way longer.

Here you see how I cut them and you can also see them sliding off the paper. Here you can also somewhat see the sheerness of them, a neutral fresh base would be preferred. :)

Feel free to use my 15% discount code: GHLC15 :)

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

31DC2015 - Day 1; red - Red 'kiss me' skittelette nail art

Finally the first day of the 31 day challenge! I've missed this challenge a lot and last September I didn't have time for it. To be able to make the challenge this September I've decided to use partial of posts from my unpublished archive to be able to fill every day. Because of changing apartments and stuff I atm got like 5 polishes left to play with which means I have to buy some more in the end of this challenge (ooh poor me, right? ;) ) so I hope you don't mind that. :)

But here goes Day 1 - Red which I've chosen to call Red skittelette nail art. This one took quite some work. I was at the time I did this one very unsure of stamping and decided to make the text out of decals, which I figured I could cut out and place. That turned out horrible, I used SV for my decals and they got too thick and hard so I built up some curage and stamped the text directly on the nail, and wow, not too bad for a beginner imho. XD I also placed some rhinestones on my accent nail and did a gradient. I really like this combo and wouldn't mind recreating it in this color of even another color. Hope you like it! :)

Polishes used:
MoYou Stamping plate
P2 - Dating Time (swatch here)
Golden Rose - no 27 (swatch here)
MoYou Special White Polish (swatch and review here)
MoYou rhinestone wheel.


Also as I've stated before there is an offer for you on MoYou's site; if you buy a nail art set, any of you choice, you can pick one polish OR one image plate of your choice if you use my special offer code CEL246. Which polish or the number of the image plate you want, you write at the comment section at the checkout. You can use the code as many times you want, as long as you buy a nail art set. :D

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

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Promarker nail art

I guess most people have seen promarker nail art, sharpie nail art and well any alcohol based pencil nail art. Since I'm a fan of Promarkers, I decided to try. Sadly I don't know where to get 75%+ alcohol in germany (like isoprophanol) but I knew regular polish remover might work and I was too curious to wait. It didn't work perfect (alcohol is probably more forgiving) but I still kinda liked it. Since it was my first time I decided to just make a skittelette and try many colors in one go. My favorites where definitely my gray thumb (right hand) and my red and black little finger (left hand). What do you think? Have you tried the technique?

Polishes and materials used:
Nordic Cap - NP13
Various Promarker pencils (and polish remover and a flat nail art brush)

NCC presents: black & silver skittelette with dotticure snowflake

Another post in the Nail Challenge Collaborative, this time #dots 3. As it is a skittelette it's a lot of things going on, glitter gradients, needle dragging and some kind of square pattern and the "star" of the nail art; the dotticure snowflake. Not so happy with my ring finger, feels like I could have composed this better.. I really like the snow flake, a simple way to make a cool nail art. Hope you like it anyhow. :)

 

Polishes used:
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
ZTIZ (black creme)
L.A. Girl - Uninhibited
HM Matte Metallic - Silver

An InLinkz Link-up

Black and red snowflake nail art

Second theme for WinterNAC is snow/snowflakes. I wanted to make it a bit untraditional and edgy, and my choice fell on a black and red skittelette with my favorite studs and then accent nails with stamped snowflakes. The image plate is AT09 and I bought it at ebay for probably 2 years ago, but I haven't used it before. Really happy with this. :)

Polishes and materials used:
Nordic Cap - NP09 (red)
MoYou's special black nail polish
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Image plate AT09

If you buy a nail art set, any of you choice, you can pick one polish OR one image plate of your choice if you use the code CEL246. Which polish or the number of the image plate you want, you write at the comment section at the checkout. You can use the code as many times you want, as long as you buy a nail art set. :D

 ***Some products in this post have been provided for review***

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. ;)