Saran wrap in black and blue / stone marble nail art

Hi, wanted to show you the base of my blue stone nail art so here it is! As I've mentioned I did a version f the saran wrap technique and dabbed about two times with both the colors, on the blue base. Really happy with these. ^^

Polishes used:
Look Ever - 22, swatch
Essence - Black Is Back

NCC presents: Blue stone inspired nail art

Time for my 4th post for this months Nail Challenge Collaborative theme Travel. For some years ago I was to Dominican Republic, it was a nice place but what I aiming for is that there is a special stone which they call Larimar, it's blue with white veins.  I kinda remembered them as blue and went on with my plans of making this nail art, and in my memory the veins was black. So when I googled it was too late to change plans, and I really like this end result.

So, more about the nail art. I used a bright blue color, then I used the Saran Wrap technique multiple times (tutorial is in the section above). First black on top of the blue, then blue again to create a marble stone like look. I freehanded the black arrow shape and white lines and placed these Born Pretty Store's blue stone imitation rhinestones. This manicure was hard to get color accurate, since the blue was too bright for my camera, and brighter than below, but did my best to edit the color correctly. Hope you'll like them as much as I did. :)

Polishes used:
R de L Young - Black
R de L Young - White
Look Ever - 22
Essence -
Born Pretty Store nail art stone imitation rhinestone the itemID: 20634 .(http://www.bornprettystore.com/flatback-cute-nail-decoration-round-water-drop-studs-nail-p-20634.html)

So this nail art wheel contains 4 colors of stone imitation rhinestones made out of plastic. The colors are white, blue, red and green which all have black stone like veins/marble look. Each color also comes in 3 different types, round, tear drop and oval. All the decorations are pretty big so I'd recommend them for accent nails like I've done above. I attached mine with nail glue because of their size and they sit nicely on the nail, wear ability wise they lasted well and after 3 days (which include me moving out/cleaning out an apartment) only the right hand's decoration show some slight wear. They're available for $3.52 and you can use my 10% discount code on that price. And as usual BPS has free world wide shipping.

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Kleancolor - Madly Matte over Colorblind gradient nail art

Yes, one of my newest polishes is Madly Matte from Kleancolor. I thought that I could try it on since it's cheap and I've only tested HM's matte nail polish before.

 In comparison between HM's matte nail polish Madly Matte didn't get as matte as HM's, it's more like semi matte to matte. HM's matte polish dries in like 5 seconds and Madly Matte needed perhaps 10 seconds which still is fast though. And application was slightly harder too with Kleancolor. However, the reason why I like Madly Matte more than HM's despite the mentioned above? It frickin' stays matte! It's the third day and it's still matte, well it has started to get shinier but is still more matte than the ones with shiny top coat on. HM's polish seems to be matte just a day and the other day it's as shiny as a normal polish. When applying hand cream it also feel like HM's get shiny and stays shiny afterwards while Kleancolors went back to matte after a while.  However I'll test this more careful in some matte and shiny nail art.

I really liked my Colorblind Gradient in matte too. If you click the link you'll find the full post abut the nail art. I think I actually like it slightly more like this, in matte! It's almost like a stone with all that matte gray..Like granite.. :D