NCC presents: Early 21st century wallpaper interior design nail art

This month in the Nail Challenge Collaborative the theme is wallpaper and at first I was a bit "meh" about it, but then I got super excited when I realized the options of it. My thought span was from computer's wallpaper to the actual wallpaper and then I decided to narrow it down further and do a tiny history lesson of it. Wallpaper is part of interior design and during the century different trends have been standing out. As you know NCC only have 4 designs so I've narrowed it down to that so there will be some jumps in the decades. Also I would like to point out that there isn't any right's or wrong's here, just because I choose one color combo that wont mean that there weren't any other and also the color trends might have occurred during different times/decades in different places over the world. And on top of that a lot of people use to stick with an interior design of a specific time for decades, like at my grandparents place it was a lot of 60s stuff also in the 90s.

My first wallpaper nail art is some kind of early 21st century nail art, like from late 90s to 2010ish. And there has been a super white era during this time talking about interior design. In Sweden (at least) there has been a hype (which is slowly fading out) to paint (or buy) literally every item in your home to white, with some few tiny details in other materials or colors, like silvery metal/glass or occasional white glazed wood. It's a feminine rural style, sometime shabby chic.. Also don't forget about the large wooden letters on the wall saying "love" or "family".. Today I can mention that this white+silvery has changed to white+copper or white+brass for the trendy ones.

Source 1 (living/bath room), Source 2 (wallpaper), Source 3 (kitchen)

So.. onto the nail art, in an aim to keep to whole interior of a home white, there still has been some patterns on the wallpaper, like subtle metallic patterns. Here I chose a white base and then stamped a holographic pattern using Color Club - Harp On It with the Born Pretty Store Stamping plate QA88. An image plate I won from MoreNailpolish. :) Stamping with CC was awesome, worked great and the holo was visible, but subtle due to the thin lines and I must say this was one which looked better IRL. It was hard to photograph, if it got dizzy or too light the pattern doesn't show, but at least you get the vision. I also added some pearl rhinestones to fit the romantic and feminine style.

Sunlight so here you can see some of the holo in the stamping.

Polishes and materials used:
Color Club - Harp On It
Nordic Cap - NP13
Squishy XL stamper from eBay
Born Pretty Store Image Plate QA88

This is the image plate I won at MoreNailpolish. (lol, I just had to take the photo after the stamping) and I must say it worked great, sharp pattern and easy to pick up. I can recommend it and if you decide to get it from BPS I have my 10% discount code for you to use; NGL91.

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So, do you recognize this interior design/wallpaper trend from where you're from? Do you like it the "white trend" or do you prefer other colors/combos in your home? Tell me. Also what do you think about the subtle stamping? :)

Tape manicure in silver and white

Here I have another tape manicure much inspired by the one in silver and red which I showed earlier. I figured that silver and white would look elegant together and I think I was correct in that assumption. ;)
Here I had shorter nails and I only made one accent nail and I must say I liked the silver/red one better than this one just because I preferred it with longer nails and double accents. But I like the color combination, I'll probably remake it for winter/Christmas 2014. Which one did you prefer? :)

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP13
HM Matte Metallic - Silver

Classical New Year's nail art

For this Nail Art Sunday (the last one this year!) I'll show you a New Years nail art, however I think that it would work all year around. It's very classical and in my eyes very beautiful. Sadly I can't take credit for the design, I saw something similar for some years ago and this is my interpretation. Enjoy!

Holo and holo glitter with the rainbows.

Something I'll change till next time is to either use 1MM rhinestones instead of 2MM's or having just three rhinestones in a row, in stead of four. I think that it will look better then. Another thing worth mentioning is that after I'd done the french manicure I added the silver holo as a base, I then added the large silver glitter. I did this so that I could use less coats of the glitter making so it wouldn't get too thick.

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Sensuous (base color)
Kleancolor - White
Jordana Pop Art - White
Color Club - Harp on it (silver holo)
Paris Memories (large glitter holo in a clear base)
2MM rhinestones

French manicure in white and silver

Hi!
I want to show some season appropriate nail arts but I don't think I got many enough to keep it up till Christmas and I don't know if I got the time to produce them either. Will see and I'll start up with something simple. A french manicure with a thin silver line. It's classical and simple, and I like it.

What I don't like is the discoloration showing on my nails, on their way to grow out but still. I can't understand why I ever could paint my nails before without base coat. Now I always use base coat and if I'm for some reason is out I use a clear/colorless shimmer polish as a stand-in-base-coat.

Polishes used:
Gabrini Elegant (White)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Silver