Black and white houndstooth freehand nail art

Think I've mentioned it before, but houndstooth is my favorite pattern since some years ago and just this week I actually bought a black and white houndstooth bikini(!) That reminded me about this manicure I did last year. Honestly I just adore this and even though it took serious amount to freehand the pattern on both hands it was so worth it! :D And as you might have seen I also love studded manicures but I wish that the studs in this manicure would have been silver instead of gold, but it's still a favorite manicure ;)  This manicure also contains one of my favorite polishes; W7 - Salt n Pepper. And since it Sunday I finally can join Nail Art Sunday! :)

Polishes used:
W7 - Salt n Pepper
Nordic Cap - NP12 (black)
BK Nail Art Color (white fine liner)

Easter bunny pastel funky french

It's Nail Art Sunday and still some Easter vibes left. Feels like I've eaten way too little chocolate and candy for it to count. I usually try to buy some large chocolate bunny to eat but no one this year. At least I had some bunnies on my nails. This design I actually saw when googeling and decided to recreate it, check out original photo HERE.

I painted my nails with a jelly beige and then painted thin lines with pastel polishes to hide the almost naked nail. And bunnies on accent nails. I liked this design and did it in both shiny and matte. Hope you'll like it too because now I have one of those picture spams again ;)

And matte version:

Polishes used:
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Sky Blue
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Baby Pink
China Glaze - Sensuous 
Kleancolor - Pastel Purple
Kleancolor - Pastel Yellow
BK Nail Art Color (white
HM Matte Top Coat

Did you prefer the shiny or matte version? What do you think about seeing matte and shiny in the same post, do you like it or is it too many pictures? Some times I've divided it into one matte post and one shiny post, is that a better option? :) What do you think?

Green holo galaxy nails

Today it is galaxies in the 31dnc.. I must say I'm not so excited about them as other people seem to be, at least not on my own nails. Last galaxy theme I did a graphical version but this time I decided to make a "real one", but in green (in favor for Green Wednesday) but I must say that the result looks like a children's play.. Hope you like them more than I did.. haha :D

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Agro
Kleancolor - Neon Green
Kleancolor - TLC
Kleancolor - Holo Green
HM nail polish - Atlantic
BK nail art color (white)

Holo snowflake funky french

Let's look at my Holo snowflake funky french which I did in the beginning of this winter. It's basically a blue and white gradient with white freehanded snowflakes. And then a holo top coat holo polish on top of the smiley. Not super holographic especially in shadow/natural light but still a valid contribution to Holo Friday. What do you think? :)

Polises used:
Catherine Arley - 676
China Glaze - Sensuous
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Dark Blue
Kleancolor - Neon Aqua
Gabrini Elegant - 352
HM Nail Polish - Enchantress Emma
BK nail art color (white)

South African tribal nail art

If I'm going to be done with the Where In The World-challenge this year I'll better hurry up and go to the next country on the list which is South Africa. Sadly almost the only african country in the whole list (we have Madagascar too), but it would have been fun with more African countries..think of all the wild animals, flags and cultural stuff that could have been a great inspiration to cool nail art. A country with a cool flag is South Africa, it's filled with nonetheless than 6 colors and the pattern is pretty graphical and cool. I decided to make the actual flag on two nails and then I did the pattern with a black fine liner because I figured that it looked graphical. I was in a bit of a hurry when I did this so I'm not content with the green nails but this is what it looked like. :)

Polishes used:
HM - Green Street
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black
Claudia - 607
Isadora - Surfers Paradise
BK nail art color

Have you missed a country? Then click on on it below.

1. Australia  
2. Canada
3. Spain
4. Israel 
5. Poland
6. USA
7. Denmark
8. Sweden
9. United Kingdom
10. Russia
11. Hungary

Pastel houndstooth and union jack nail art

Hi! While I'm at it I'm showing no. 9 in the Where in the world-challenge which happen to be United Kingdom. This will also be my contribution to Nail Art Sunday at Lelack. :)

I actually had an idea from the start, I just love houndstooth pattern.. and guess what, my suspicion seemed correct since the pattern seems to originally come from UK (from a quick google session). I've free handed houndstooth pattern before (not showed here at the blog though) So I thought it would be fun to do it here as well, (since full nail stamping isn't my forte yet). On top of that I decided for some union jack flags as accents. First I was thinking of making the whole thing according to the flag; red, white and blue but then I thought that it would be funnier if everything went pale and pastel like, so I changed the red to pastel purple and the blue to pastel blue. I really like the result  and I hope you do too. I know I have some Anglophiles and english people reading my blog so I hope you'll find it fun! :D

Polishes used:
HM - In It For The Game
Kleancolor - Pastel Pink
China Glaze - Bahamian Escape
BK nail art color
2 MM pearl rhinestones

Have you missed a country? Then click on on it below.
1. Australia  
2. Canada
3. Spain
4. Israel 
5. Poland
6. USA
7. Denmark
8. Sweden

Taurus black and white block inverted nail art

And here we have the second post of today, the first is here and is a troll doll nail art.The reason I'm doing two posts today is that Nail Art Sunday is having a theme, which is astrological signs and of cause I wanted to join. First I was thinking of somehow combining day 29/inspired by the supernatural and the astrological signs.. I guess that the Sagittarius and the Aquarius could work for super natural if the Sagittarius is also a centaur which it often are portrayed as. But I'm neither of them and I really liked my troll doll idea for the challenge so I decided to make a nail art solely for Nail Art Sunday and the astrological signs. I decided for my own sign, obviously, and started searching for inspirational Taurus images. I actually fell for the stylized sign for it, a circle for face and half circle on top for horns, and since I wanted to make it funnier I decided to make blocks in black and white and also invert the sign depending on which block it's in. Hope you'll like it!

I forgot to photograph bottles but polishes used are:
Nordic Cap - NP12 (black)
Nordic Cap - NP13 (white)
BK Nail Art Color (white fine liner)
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark (black fine liner)

31DC2013 Day 28; Swiss flag cross stitch nail art

Today it is inspired by a flag, which in my opinion is the least fun amongst the inspired by selection, since I'm doing the Where in the world-challenge I made sure that I'd pick a flag of a country not appearing in the list of that challenge. I also remembered that Natalia from Polished Polyglot thought it was sad that neither of her home country or living country was in the list so I figured that I would chose either one of them. I went for the flag of Switzerland and got inspired by the  white cross on red background and the decided to keep it simple but still fun with two accent nails with a cross stitch pattern. As you might remember I made cross stitch pattern for day no. 7 too and I think the result was better that time, I felt a bit shakier this time making the cross and thats never a good thing. I also realized that I must purchase more red polishes, apparently this is my only bright red(!) in my whole collection..

Polishes used:
ZTIZ nail polish (red)
BK nail art color (white fine liner)