Swedish National Day nail art

Today it's the Swedish National Day. Sweds aren't that nationalistic for different reasons and celebrations aren't that big comparing to other countries. However I have some suiting nails for the occasion, which I had on in Germany last summer in the end. Blue and yellow are fun together, I want to make more designs with that, not because of the swedish flag, but because the colors compliment each other well.

I made a yellow base, after that I stamped the shit out of my self, each nail is stamped like 4 times to get the "full mani pattern". Then I added a gold metal stud tear drop rhinestone on each. First I have camera photos, but in the end I have some phone photos, just because those showed the color better, the camera made the color too popping. Hope you'll like this. :)

Polishes used:
MoYou special blue polish
MoYou Image Plate N11 
Adena - 51, swatch
Gold metal stud tear drop rhinestone (bought from ebay)

N11, look at the tiny little floral pattern which I used to cover my whole nail with.

Phone pics. The top picture is very color accurate.

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NCC presents: Snoopy and Woodstock nail art

Time for my Animals #3 for this month's theme for the Nail Challenge Collaborative. And this time I actually have two animals to show ;) both a dog which happens to be called Snoopy and a little yellow canary bird called Woodstock.. well, I guess you already guessed it, but it's Peanuts! :) I used a super pale pastel yellow and a mint blue pastel gradient base and also a yellow, blue and white glitter gradient on top for my other nails. Then free handed snoopy and Woodstock with nail polish, dotting tool and fine liner brush as usual. And yea, I'm happy with the result, hope you'll like it too :)

My dominant hand. ^^

Polishes used:
ZTIZ (black creme)
Kleancolor - White
Essence - That's What I Mint!
Essence - Love Is In The Air
Essence - Bee My Honey
Glam Polish - Bee-Do! Bee-Do! Bee-Do!

An InLinkz Link-up

Blue flower funky french

I did a nail art over Pink Lemonade II which I showed you yesterday, I'm not 100% happy with the result, but I hope you'll like it anyhow. Maybe it's because it perhaps has some unintentional Easter feel to it? What do you think?

Polishes used:
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Dark Blue
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black
Smitten Polish - Pink Lemonade II
Rapsodi - 187

Swedish yellow and blue tiger nail art

One challenge is down, one more to go. I started with the Where in the world-challenge in January this year and my goal is to finish it before the new year. Since the 31 day challenge worked fine I'm sure I'll manage with this even though I'd say that it's harder to come up with ideas for this challenge.

Anyhow country no. 8 is my home country; Sweden and I decided to do the Swedish tiger. Of cause this is not an animal because there's no wild tigers in Sweden. It's actually a symbol used i Sweden during world war 2, mainly a reminder not to speak about military things during that time. The reason why this symbol (or the tiger to be correct) is funny is that it has a double interpretation in the Swedish language. "Tiger" could both be the animal and to keep silent, which was important during those times. I also just read on wikipedia that an English phrase with the same meaning was "loose lips sink ships".

Source

That's the background story of that. Anyhow, my main idea was the the yellow and the blue would look cool with tiger -, or well, zebra stripes and here's my yellow and blue tiger nails;

Polishes used:
Paris Memories - #293
Color club Art Club - Midnight Blue

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Fan brush nail art in yellow and blue

Hi, I thought that I should have lots of time for nail related things this week but I was wrong. Time is moving (too) fast.

Today I'm showing the manicure I wore yesterday. Yesterday, the 6th of June it was the national day here in Sweden so I decided that I wanted to do a yellow and blue nail art. I did a Swedish flag nail art last year, which was ugly.. and I haven't showed it here yet and I'm not sure I will. ;) Anyhow I wanted to do something new and remembered that I have a fan brush. I also saw an inspiring nail art with it but in other colors.

I quite liked the end result, it's not too in-your-face but still fun. :) I'll use the fan brush more times in the future for sure.

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP18
Isadora - Surfers Paradise

Floam Funky french

Here we have Floam, or more specifically a Floam funky french with a thin black line. I actually really like this.  And I can't understand that I've kept this in my archive for so long, but here you have it! ;)

outdoor cloudy

Floam has matte neon blue and yellow-green fine glitter in a clear base. At ninjapolish where I bought it they say that it covers in 2-3 coats but I use 5 and has done so with all floams I've used. I think i could be because I partical use thin coats but also because on my long nails with my white (yellow toned heheh) smiley.

outdoor sunny

One thing I still don't understand is what brand I should write that Floam belongs to. I know that Amy at I'm feeling nail-venturous created it but on my bottle the only thing written is NinjaPolish. I know other brands use Ninjapolish bottles too, but then they've written their own brand also.

indoor

My base coat for the funky french. Blue pearl shimmer polish by "Bang on the door".

Polishes used:
Bang on the door (pearl blue shimmer)
Ninja Polish - Floam
Jordana Pop Art - Black