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.***

NCC presents: Punk rock inspired nail art in silver and black

Also my 4th Punk & Rock nail art for Nail Challenge Collaborative March (yup 3 days late in posting this one here) is in silver and black. Somehow the color scheme inspired me. :)

Here I had a silver base which I stamped a skull stamping upon and then I did a distressed looked stamping on top and put on square metal studs kinda matching the stamping. I also put on matte top coat. I thought I put on the matte on all nails... but missed one.. lol XD
It is messy, but I hope you like it. :)

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Metallic Black
Essence - City Girls Rule
Claire's matte top coat
Born Pretty store image plate - BP-39 (Bought on their sale)

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NCC presents - Hollow metal studs and geometrical nail art in black and silver

Time for my 3rd Nail Challenge Collaborative nail art this month with the theme Punk & rock. Again I went for the more rock like manicure. Here I also was able to use the cool Hollowed nail art decorations from Born Pretty Store which I've been given to review. More info below but basically I really liked them. :)

Polishes and materials used:
P2 - Black Glitter
Essence - City Girls Rules!
Nordic Cap -NP12
BornPrettyStore Hollow studs: item id: 25153 Link here.

Here you see a closeup, the wheel come in a variety of shapes and both in gold and silver. They where surprisingly easy to attach to the nails with only top coat and lasted really well.

Here is my discount code: NGL91

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Gold and teal nail art with metallic gold temporary tatto's

Hi everybody! Today I'm showing last color theme for @whencolourscollide, gold and teal and this is what I come up with. I did a teal gradient in two teal nuances and embellished this with some gold tattoos LadyQueen has given to me for review a while back.

I knew from the start that I wanted to combine the tattoos on both my nails and hands for a cool nail art look and it worked really good for both. I cut the tattoo in pieces and put it in a plate with enough water to cover them up, after 30-60 sec (when I saw that it was all wet) I used a tweezer to pick em' up. I will show my nails both with and without top coat here, with tc it wrinkled the gold slightly but not in a bad way and the durability has been great, 5 days (and now I just want change anyhow). On my hands/fingers the durability was as expected way less, as I've seen before on the hands it last for about a day, so it's more for special occasions on the hands. A good thing (which surprised me) is that it wears off in a nice way. It is NOT as the kids tattoos I used when I was a child which got dirty/blackish when they got old. The gold tattos first got slightly less gold colored, and got more of a silver tone and then just discretely started to wear off. I'm happy with this product and I'm already planning more looks with it, especially for summer with sightly more tanned hands. :)

Here you see the pieces I cut out and put in water. Also some comparison pics of without and with top coat on. Without tc it looks really smooth and with tc is looks slightly wrinkled but also way more metallic.

I used:
Depend - ?
Cladia - 611, swatch found HERE
Lady Queen - 1 Sheet Black Silver Gold Temporary Metallic Waterproof Feather Arrow Jewelry Necklace Flash Tattoo Sticker

Here is my 15% discount code: GHLC15

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

NCC presents: Distressed nail art in black and silver

Happy Easter to you all. :) Been a bit slow in publishing lately but here is my second Punk & Rock inspired nail art for Nail Challenge Collaborative. I decided to make a distressed nail art with a black base and silver on top. I also decorated with a skull charm from Born Pretty Store which I painted black with nail polish. :)

Polishes used:
Essence - City Girls Rules!
Rival De Loop - 406

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Black and red rose and heart nail art

This is my last #whencolourscollide color challenge when the theme was red and black. Red and black has for long been a favorite of mine, here I did some rose stamping, glitter gradient and I also painted two heart metal studs in black to get the look. I also decided to mattify this one. This is one of those nail art's I just adore, I can also see my self wearing this in more black+color (like green, blue, purple etc) in the future. :)

 Polishes used:
Dance Legend - Matte top coat
Wet n Wild - I Red A Good Book/Ballon Rouge
L.A Girl - Uninhibited
Kleancolor - Metallic Black
Born Pretty Store image plate - BP-73 with itemID: 20790 (original review here)

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