Nail Challenge Collaborative - Winter nail art, summary

As I mentioned before Collages might pop up. In January the theme for Nail Challenge Collaborative was winter. I've already posted my 4 manis on IG but I wanted to show them to you here too. :)

One gradient with Ninja Polish - Melted snowman. XD

Two manis stamped with snow flakes.

And one freehand of a poor polar bear on a melting piece of ice. Done with nail polish. ^_^ This is obviously my favorite.

Feel free to join this monthly nail art challenge. Find us at Facebook by searching for Nail Challenge Collaborative. :)

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31DC2015 - Day 28; Pirate Bun emoticon jolly roger nail art

Day 28 means flags and tbh it's not really a favorite of mine, but last time I did a 31 day challenge I did a jolly roger flag nail art which I this time wanted to make a little spin of it by making the whole thing blue (making it possible for me to also join Blue Monday, yay!) and also including Bun, the facebook emoticon in it's pirate outfit, also added a boat, the mandatory flag, some clouds and birds in the background. All is freehanded with polishes. :) Was really happy with this one. :)

Meet pirate Bun :)

Polishes used:
Dance Legend satin matte top coat
Beauty Women - Cornflower
Fanatica - 408
Essence - Wild White Ways 
Essence - Black Is Back
R de L Young - Ruby Red
R de L Young - Dangerous
R de L Young - Black
R de L Young - White 
 

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31DC2015 - Day 21; NCC presents; The color of the ocean and fishes nail art

Today is a triple day nail art wise. 31 day challenge has the theme inspired by a color and today is also Blue Monday. So I decided to make something blue and of course that also was a fit for the Nail Challenge collaborative theme inspired by pets. I've always wanted cute and colorful little fishes in a fish tank but it has never happened so far.

In my nails it's not clear if the fishes are in a tank or the ocean and to be honest I don't think the particular fish I choose Is possible to have as a pet? But I've always loved the looks of the Longfin Bannerfish so I decided to make them anyhow. A pet I've always wanted to have. :P

What you see is a subtle and maybe too seamless (?) gradient in two blue shades, a black and blue glitter gradient and freehanded little fishes. Hope you'll like them. :)

Polishes used:
Dance Legend satin matte top coat
Fanatica - 408
Fanatica - 824
Beauty Women - Cornflower
Essence - Black Is Back
Essence - Wild White Ways
Essence - Love Is In The Air, swatch here
R de L Young - Black
R de L Young - White 

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2015 31DC2015 - Day 7; b&w - cartoon inspired black and white paw nail art

Today it's the black and white theme for 31 day challenge, a theme which is a favorite of mine. I also choose to combine this for the pet theme in the Nail Challenge Collaborative. In my mind I see this as cat paws or dog paws. I wanted to make it quite clean and abstract so I did free hand paws in a straight line rather than "swirly". Also did a reverse accent nail on each hand. :)

Polishes used:
Dance Legend Matte top coat
R De L Young - Black
R De L Young -White
Essence - Black Is Back
Essence - Wild White Ways

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31DC2015 - Day 3; yellow - NCC presents: Cute kitty funky french

Today I have a two for one post, both the first Nail Challenge Collaborative post with the theme Pets and the 3rd day for the 31 day challenge which is yellow. So it will be long..

I asked a friend about this nail art, about what animal she saw. She responded "cat! ..or tiger, but definitely more cat ". So with that I'll stick with that and let's see this as cats. It reminds me of a stuffed animal cat, with the eyes like that.What do you think?

About cats as pets, I've never had one of my own, my parents don't like them and when I grew up kids in school which had cats had scratch marks all over their arms. When I asked why, they said that it was like that having a cat. If you play with it, it might scratch you. So I got skeptical towards cats, it was first after I met my boyfriend who laughed at me when I told him why I was so distant from his fathers cat. Then he explained that a cat would only scratch you if you treat them wrong and oh how much I've cuddled with his fathers cat since then. :) I'm also open towards getting a cat, me and my boyfriend have a dog, which I adore, but we both would like a cat some day too. <3

Anyhow, not much to say about the nail art itself. Just freehand and some dots and stripes. Not my fav animal nail art, but still okay.

Polishes used:
Jordana Pop Art - Contemporary White
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark
Sally Hansen - Sweet Tulip
Ztiz (black)
Nordic Cap - NP13
Essence - Love Is In The Air, swatch here

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NCC presents: Summary; Animals

I'm slow but here is the summary of the theme from February in the Nail Challenge Collaborative which was animals. I've really enjoyed this theme and I'm very happy with my four contributions.

I had a hard time to choose but my favorite is probably the Snoopy nail art, even though I'm very happy with the others too. :)

Below is pictures and links to the original posts:

Garfield

Snoopy

Pusheen

Totoro

Which one is your favorite if any? :)

NCC presents: Garfield nail art

And so we have reached my #4 animal in the nail challenge collaborative this month, I'm slamming it in the very last day and the reason why, you'll see tomorrow. ;)

My forth animal nail art is with another cat motive, this time the lazy cat Garfield. Since my other three nail art's had gradients/glitter gradients I thought it was fun to do it here too (I quite like that look with double gradients) so here I used orange and two chades of green to create my regular gradient. And a cool glitter polish from Lakobotan in blue, white and green for the glitter gradient. I freehanded Garfield with nail polishes but I wouldn't say it's my best work ever, I would have needed some finer brushes to make it better I guess. I also did another accent nail with three 4MM black rhinestones and also added 2MM black rhinestones on my other nails. Quite happy with the result, even though my favorite is my 4MM rhinestone accent nail.. lol

Polishes and materials used:
ZTIZ (black creme)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Baby Pink
Kleancolor - White
Pink Up - Spring Symphony
KIKO - 822
Essence - Love Is In The Air
Essence - L.O.L
Essence - Beijos De Brazil
4 MM black opaque rhinestones
2 MM black opaque rhinestones

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