Cute teddybear nail art in pink and blue

Now it's time for something unusual here, super feminine nails in a very girly color scheme. I did this in the middle of this summer and I'm not sure I liked wearing these, even though I liked the result per ce. I think I'm more into edgier nails, at least for the moment.  I'd say that my accent nails are teddy bears or dogs? I'm not sure what they looks like the most, being pink and all that.. ;) I also did a matching pedicure but with flowers, so you "feet sensitive" persons, might wanna skip the last 2 pictures.. :P
Also, don't forget to check out Nail Art Sunday :)

So.. Is it pink teddy bears or is it pink dogs? Tell me what you think?

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Hang-Ten Toes
Kleancolor - White
Sally Hansen - Wool Knot
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
L.A. Colors Art Deco -Baby Pink
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Hot Pink
L.A. Colors Art Deco -  Sky Blue
Isadora - Surfers Paradise

Isadora - Lemon Soda, swatch

I'm rarely a jour with polishes which is new released. I usually just wait until they inevitable come on sale. Isadora - Lemon Soda is pretty new (and yea, found it on sale) and is a yellow pastel texture polish from Isadora. I'd say the formula is shimmer and there is also some golden glitter in it. It's very beautiful and the name is spot on; lemon! The problem with this polish is that it is thin..I needed 4 coats to avoid the VNL and you can see the line of just ONE manicure below. Next time I'll layer it over a pastel yellow. :)

Can you see the fill line? This is one mani (10 nails) and using it like this it would probably only last for 4 more manicures!

Natural light.

Sunlight.

I also tried this polish as shiny which the two photos below are but I must say I prefer the textured look.

Do you have this polish? What do you think about it? Do you prefer the texture version or the shiny version?

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

Gradient mesh nail art in blue, green and purple

Today I'll show a nail art I did for a nail art competition by Isadora, it's no longer possible to send contributions but the vote's are up. Here's a link to Isadora's website where the contest is (and it's also possible to see all entries there) and I'll also give you a link to my entry, even though I think you should vote at the one you like the best.

However, like Zara from Traces of polish and also a few other bloggers/competitors have said, I probably never would have participated if I knew that the votes where based on facebook-likes. I read through all the rules before participating but that was apparently a secret until after the voting started. Now it has become to be a popularity contest with reminiscent from middle school at the gym and being picked last (as Zara pointed out). There's a lot of really good entries that almost haven't got any votes, especially the earlier ones. And another thing I dislike is that the ones who noticed this competition early (not me) and sent their entry's early gets punished for it because the first page only show the last entries and to be able to see the other ones you have to click "older" and there's about 5 slow loading pages to go through. Now maybe some of you will find me silly but I guess I'm old fashion in that way. I'd rather would have seen it to be a lottery where everybody has an equal chance or at least that all entry's was shown at the same page and the voting was anonymous.

BUT, let's move on to the actual nail art. I've grown attached to striping tape and this time I decided to remake this mesh nail art but with only three colors and I decided for no underlying gradient. Here or in the pages above you can find a tutorial which works for this one too. I picked an aubergine colored purple, a cobalt blue and mint green shade and I think that the colors looks unusual and cool together. I tried alternating each nail to get different looks and I liked the result. I also painted pearl rhinestones with the polishes and attached them on to accent nails but I think they got too big, I should have choose a smaller rhinestone. The pictures with the best color accuracy are the ones without flash but I wanted to include the two-hand-poses too. And as usual I hope you like it. :)

With flash.

With flash.

Polishes used:
Isadora - 739 Surfers Paradise
Isadora - 176 Creamy Aubergine
Isadora - 755 Pistacchio
4 MM painted pearl rhinestones


And speaking about competitions I actually won some polishes (by lottery haha..) that I haven't tested yet but I'll show you the bottles later today I hope. Take care!

31DC2013 Day 16; Neon tribal nail art

According to the 31 day challenge today is all about tribal print. I really like tribal prints on nails, it's very versatile however this is only my second nail art with it. The previous one you can see here and I pretty much used the same "pattern" even though as I said the variation possibilities are huge. I early decided that I wanted a neon yellow and from that grew the rest, from the crackle polish (which I think work excellent here looking like dried clay) and the pattern came. This time I choose to make the nail art layout the same on each nail and the pattern is slightly different on each nail. So here you have it;

Polishes used;
Isadora - Latte queen (crackle)
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Kleancolor - Funky Yellow
Nordic Cap - NP13 (as a base for the neon to make it extra bright)

Ninja Polish - The Midas Touch, gold flake polish, swatch

Today I'm showing this gorgeous yellow gold flake polish from Ninja Polish. The fun part is that this seem to be the only one with 24K real gold, OPI's and Zoya's are only 18K, even though they all looks the same when I've looked at comparisons. I knew I really wanted a gold flake polish so I was really happy when I saw this.

I've layered The Midas Touch over the bright blue Isadora - Surfers Paradise and I really liked the combination. The formula was great and I used two coats but one could have been enough. I also used Seche Vite on top, not for the shine because it was shiny before, but for extra protection.

I'd really like to have the silver version of this. I've had it in my shopping basket two times but still haven't bought it.Weird haa?

Do you have any gold flake polishes and what are your opinions about them?

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

Isadora - Surfers Paradise, swatch

Blue Monday at Lindas Nailorama and it happen to be so that I have more blue polishes in the stash. ;)

Today I'm showing Isadora - Surfers Paradise. It's a lovely cobolt blue creme, but I wouldn't have bought it if it wouldn't have been on sale for half the regular price.

Natural light.

I've used two coats and I love the wide brush. Application is so much easer for me with the wide brush. In my perfect world all brushes should be like this, or maybe I should have had less wide nails?! hmm..

Natural light.

Very shiny even with out top coat, here the photos are with top coat (SV) though.

Natural light.

The only thing being not so paradise with this polish was the smell, plain awful. Not a chemical scent  like Kleancolor and others, this was more like a rotten garbage smell..euw euw.. This is my worst smelling polish in the stash for sure...I have other Isadora's which have had a regular scent.

Natural light.

Sunlight.

Sunligt/natural light.

Have you got this polish? Did you notice any bad smell or is it just my bottle? :O