KIKO - 843, swatch

843 is a dark hot pink cerise shimmer polish with purple, almost blue toned shimmer within. Since it's KIKO's round bottle, the brush is of the round flat type which I really like. The formula is fine but sheer. If you have nubs 2 coats would be enough. I have 4 coats on here in a try to hide the VNL, but the 3rd and 4th coat looked pretty much the same, the base color remained the same on the nail bed since the second coat. I'm not a pink lover but this is a color I like, however CG's 2012 neons are still better, because I can't get this one to cover. I discovered after removal that it had stained my nails pretty bad though, so I'm not really recommending this.

Bought in a KIKO store for 1 euro on sale.

NCC presents: Versace fashion inspired needle dragging nail art

Time for my fourth manicure with the theme "inspired by fashion" for the Nail Challenge Collaborative. I got inspired of a dress from the Versace show at Paris Fashion Week earlier this year. The dress isn't something I would wear my self, but I figured it would look really cool for a needle dragging design combined with a negative space nail art idea.

Source

I decided to use a nude jelly in beige and a white creme for my needle dragging. (I could have used a clear polish, but a stupid KIKO polish stained my nails so I had to use something more neutralizing so a nude jelly seemed nice and basically the negative space nail art went haywire). I also decided to outline my nails with a white fine liner to create a frame, so the result would look more precise.  I'm quite happy with the result even though it could need some refinement. Let me know what you think! :)

Polishes used:
Sally Hansen - Sweet Tulip
Nordic Cap - NP13
R de L Young - White (nagel designer lack)

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NCC presents: Male inspired fashion nail art

Time for my 3rd inspired by fashion manicure for the Nail Challenge Collaborative. I decided for some male fashion and found something geometrical which I figured would look cool on the nails.

Design by Philip Lim (2015), source of image here.

To the nail art then, I was mostly inspired by the outfit of the gentlemen to to left and also found it to be fun if I could implement some negative space nail art, partly inspired by the gap on his knees and also that black thick line. So, on with striping tape which I later realized was too thin but also colored off some silver onto the nail art, which made it even less of a negative space.. For the rest of the nail art, it was mainly making freehand lines, which I'm usually quite good at, but I got a bit disappointed because both my black and white fineliners decided to die the thickness death while painting this so everything got a bit thicker and less crisp than I wanted. Still, not the worst thing I've ever done and geometrical is kinda fun to play around with. What do you think?

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP13
P2 - Dating Time (swatch here)
Jordana Pop Art -Black Mark
Jordana Pop Art -Contemporary White

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Alanna Renee - Butterbeer, swatch

Butterbeer is a honey yellow/yellow toned orange crelly filled with tiny matte white glitter and "semi-shiny" off white hexagons. The proportions of glitter feels very well calculated/tested and the formula was surprisingly good even though the glitter makes the formula feel dense. In the end I only needed 2 coats for it to cover. This could easaliy have been like the horrible formula of Lush Laqcuer glitters but it wasn't at all and I really like everything with Butterbeer. :) Totally a "Gelic'-polish".

This was $8 (ex. shipping) from color4nails.

Stripes in white over pastel green

Did some white stripes over my Manhattan - 71S manicure and below is the result. As I said in that post, 71S is indeed green, but very pale and graytoned and I thought that the white stripes maybe would enhance the effect. I don't know about that but I do like this manicure. For more and probably greener manicure's you can check out Green Wednesday. :)

Polishes used:
Jordana Pop Art - Contemporary White (have you seen how miserable my bottle looks? Must buy a new white striper)
Manhattan - 71s

Essence - Break Through, swatch

Break Through is a warm purple creme with some subtle shimmer in it giving the polish some depth. The color is slightly dark, almost plum like. I like Essence's brushes, it's rounded and flat and makes it easier to paint that rounded line at the cuticle. Sadly the formula is of the thinner side which make it annoying to control however in the end I only needed 3 coats to make it cover, which is okay for me. The color looks slightly darker on the nail than the bottle, but I like the color. I had problems getting the color accurate on all pictures, but I think that the first, third and last are the most color accurate. What do you think?

Bought at DM (drogerie markt) for 1,55 euro.

P2 - Remember Me, swatch

A pastel blue polish called Remember Me, and I'll definitely remember it, but sadly for the wrong reasons. 4 coats which didn't self level, and that surprised me because my other P2 has been so good, pigmented 1-2coaters with good formula. However, after the 4 coats and the "savior" seche vite on top, it does look nice. This pastel blue creme is beautiful and also my contribution to Blue Monday.

 This is btw the smaller bottle size with 8 ML, standard is 11 ML and the cost difference is small. 11ML is 1,75 euro and the 8 ML is 1,55 euro at DM (German pharmacy) where I've bought a couple.  However it seems like the small aren't available as large and vice versa, so if one want a specific color you can only get it in one bottle size.