Christmas Nails #4

Good morning dear readers!!  4 MORE SLEEPS!!  There is a present under the tree for me that I am DYING to open!  It's from Tyler and he keeps taunting me with it, so I can't wait to tear into it Christmas morning :)

I have another Christmas mani for you this morning, let's check it out!

Christmas Nails #3

Hey everyone and Happy Friday!!  How many of you are done work for the Christmas season?  Yesterday was my last day of work for the year, and I don't go back until January 6th!!  WOOHOO!!!

I figured with it being less than 5 days till Christmas Day, I should probably post another Christmas mani!  I did this a while ago, because as you know I have been losing my polishing mojo :(  But, let's take a look!

Christmas Nails #2

Hey everybody!!!  I have another Christmas mani for you today!  I didn't get to polishing last night because I was too busy making homemade sugar cookies so my sister and I can ice them tomorrow :D  I'll post pictures of them on the Facebook page when we have them done :)

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Got distracted at work, sorry.  I'm back now and going to finish this up!  Come check out the 2nd Christmas mani I did!

Christmas Nails #1

Hello and Happy Two Weeks till Christmas!!  I can't believe we are so close!  Next week is my last week of work, and Tyler and I are getting our tree this weekend!  Yahoo!!  Now, let's just hope that Owen doesn't pull it down while we are away at work next week, and that I manage to get all my shopping done before it's too late!

I know I promised a bunch of Christmas nails for the month of December, but I have lost my polish mojo.. again.  I have done a few, so I will start with posting the first one I did - 

Holiday Nail Art Challenge Week 2

Hola readers!!  I know I said that I would be on the ball this week with Nail Polish Canada's Holiday Nail Art Challenge, and I wasn't.. FAIL!  I did have my mani done a few days ago, I just was being lazy and didn't get the post up.

This week's theme was Decorations.  My idea came into my mind immediately when I saw the e-mail, and this is what I came up with!

Holiday Nail Art Challenge Week 1

Happy Sunday everyone, and Happy December 1st!!  Only 24 more sleeps :D

I have a late mani submission for the Nail Polish Canada Holiday Nail Art Challenge.  Yes, I have had all week to do it, but I have been super lazy and only did it last night, very last minute.  Let's take a look - I am very excited for the way this turned out!  The theme for this week's challenge was snow, my FAVOURITE part of winter and Christmas :D

Late Hallowe'en Night Nails

Hey everybody!!  I'M BACK!!  I have most of the big details, like vendors, booked for the wedding, and I think I am safe to come back to blogging on a fairly regular basis :D

Let's get right to the nails, and then I will catch you up on everything I have been up to for the last month-ish.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all my lovely readers.

Obviously I will be away from the computer today, and over the next few days with it being Christmas (YAY!) but I wanted to have something ready for you guys in case any of you have time to be checking out blogs :)  I have been working on this all month!  I wanted to showcase all my Christmas manis for the month as a gift to you (so you don't have to scroll back through them all, lol!).  I have included links to the blog posts under each picture.

November 23

December 1

December 4

December 8

December 9

December 10

December 12

December 14

December 16

December 18

December 20

December 21

December 23

December 24

I hope that Santa has been good to everyone!  Enjoy your time over the Christmas season with your friends and family, and stay safe!

Christmas Sweater Nails

Merry Christmas Eve everybody!!  I am so excited that Christmas is (finally) here!  This is my favourite time of the year :D

Today I have my "official" Christmas nails for you - these are going to have to last over the next few days because I will be spending time at family get togethers and I think that I will get some funny looks if I whip out a bottle of polish and all my tools :P

I'm pretty proud of this mani if I do say so myself.  This is mostly for my cousins who love having "ugly Christmas sweater parties".

Pretty sweet, eh?!  For this I used Julep Delaunay as my base colour and then with Konad Special Polish in White and stamping plates M69 (snowflake) and M71 (lace patterns).  Then, to make it more "sweatery" I topped it off with Essie Matte About You top coat.

I am of proud of these, and unfortunately they took longer than I was anticipating (and a lot of q-tips) so I really hope they last until at least the 27th.

What is your favourite Christmas mani you have done this year?  Mine is this one, and my "Santa's Sleigh" nails from yesterday.

I also want to take this time to wish all my readers a Very Merry Christmas!  I will be away from the computer until the 27th at the earliest.  I do have a scheduled post for you tomorrow though, in case any of you have a couple minutes to log on ;)  I hope Santa's good to everybody, and be safe!

XOXO

Reindeer Nails

(Feel free to sing along...)
You know Dasher and Dancer, and Prancer and Vixen.
Comet and Cupid, and Donner and Blitzen.
But do you recall...
The most famous reindeer of all....

How cute are these guys?!?!?!?!  I am absolutely IN LOVE with these nails and wish I could carry these guys with me forever!  I was inspired by Top Coat It's reindeer nail design from last year.

For this I used Julep Mystery Colour #1 (dark brown) as my base colour - which I'm really digging and it's so perfect for reindeer! - Julep Alyson for the antlers, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On for the eyes and Santa's jacket detail, Jordana Black for the pupils, Santa's belt and reindeer noses, and for Santa's coat and Rudolph's nose I used Jessica Red Delight.  For the gold detail on Santa's belt and buttons I used Jordana Pop Art Golden Artist.

2 more sleeps till Santa's reindeer drop Santa off at the houses of all the good girls and boys, and I know he's stopping at my house this year ;)

What is your favourite Christmas carol?  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is stuck in your head now, isn't it?!

Julep Leah & Ninja Polish Shattered Star

Only 2 more days of work!  I have no desire to work today, or for the rest of the week for that matter!  I keep thinking it's Wednesday too, so that doesn't make it any better, lol!

My sister is home from school for the Christmas break and tonight we are going to watch Breaking Dawn Part 2 :D  I haven't seen it since my Twilight Saga Marathon back on November 17th, and I can't wait to watch it again!

Today I have for you something that was supposed to look Christmasy but it really looks like something more for St. Patrick's Day... *sigh*  Don't you hate when things never turn out the way you have pictured in your head?

This is Julep Leah, which is a beautiful green with a slight shimmer in it.  This will be perfect for St. Patrick's Day, but it isn't very Christmasy.  Then I topped it with Ninja Polish Shattered Star from their Holiday collection.  I was going to put this over black but then didn't think that was quite Christmasy enough.

If you are looking to buy some Shattered Star for yourself, check out their shop.  They have lots of polish-related stuff :)

Holly-day Nails

Good evening beautiful readers!  I can't believe it's Sunday evening, I only have 4 days of work left before I am off on Christmas holidays and there are only 9 days until the big day!

As I was on my way home from finishing my Christmas shopping (yep, I'm DONE!), I heard the song White Christmas by Paul Brandt and I couldn't help thinking to myself how much I can relate to the first lines of the song

"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,

just like the ones I used to know."

For those of us in South-Central Ontario to have no snow and less than 10 days until Christmas, it's a sad, sad thing ... in my opinion anyways!  Most people I know are OK with the no snow part, but me, I want it so bad I'm considering buying myself a snow machine for Christmas!  :D  (How sweet would that be?!)

Anywho, I did white nails yesterday for peace, in honour of the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, USA that happened on Friday.  I took those nails and was able to add some Christmas cheer to them :)

For this look I used 2 coats of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On, topped with Julep Melissa to give it a pearly finish :)  Then, using a toothpick I applied "V"s, sort of like you do when drawing birds in the sky, with Sinful Colors Exotic Green.  I did 2 of those, connecting the top one to the middle of the bottom one, and then a line sticking out the top to make the holly leaves.  Then, with the toothpick, I used Avon Cherry Jubilee to create the holly berries in a group of 3 :)

These are simple and chic, yet Christmasy enough to bring a smile to my face :)  I was going to do them on all my nails but wanted to keep it clean so I only did them as accent nails.

Are you tired of Christmas nails yet?  I''m sure not!  I could do them all year, but imagine how much red, white and green polish one would go through!!

Snowflake French Tip

Thank goodness it's Friday!  There are only 11 days left before Christmas, and it doesn't feel like it because we are missing lots of snow, and this year has gone way too fast!  I also just realized that I have been blogging for almost 6 months!  Sure doesn't feel like it!

I have another Christmas mani for you guys today!  I found this while browsing Google for stamped Christmas manis and found this design by Meliney, but altered it slightly to make it more Christmasy and I don't have the stamping plate she was using :)

Source (screenshot from the tutorial video)

Here is what I came up with:

For this design, I used Avon Ruby Slippers for my red tips, Bundle Monster stamping plate BM-319 for the snowflakes and Konad Special Polish in White.  I topped it with Jordana Crystal Glitter.

This is so Christmasy and I love it so much!  You could do this with any colour on the tips and it will look great!  I was debating on whether to do red or green and decided on red :)

Do you like it?  Have you ever watched any of Meliney's tutorial videos for nail designs?  Which one is your favourite?

Christmas Dotticure

Happy Hump Day!!!  I only have 5-1/2 days left of work until I'm on Christmas holidays for 2 weeks!!  Where has the time gone?!  I'm running out of days to do Christmas nails!!!

Today I have for you a cute Christmas dotticure that I did last night, but I ran out of time to post about it.  I think I will try to post every other day rather than every day, it might be a little less stressful for me :)

Cute, right?!  For this I used Butter London Pillar Box Red (a perfect Christmas red) and Zoya Storm as my base colours.  Then on the red I dotted with Zoya Logan and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On, and applied 2 coats of Elixir Lacquers Peppermint Barque from her holiday collection over Storm :)

I really love this!  I think the dotticure compliments Peppermint Barque perfectly because of the small red and green hexes and the medium white hexes :)  I really love this glitter!  *sigh* I love Christmas!  Can we have it year 'round, pretty please with a cherry on top?!

Sapphire Dreams & Wynter Wonders

Hellllloooooo ladies!  As most of you who are on Facebook frequently probably already know, I have discovered 100% acetone for polish and glitter removal.  *makes Heavenly sounds and shines a spotlight on the bottle of acetone*

So, because of this, I have overcome my love/hate relationship with glitter polish and it is pure love now!  And to prove it, I have 2 coats of a shimmer polish with 2 coats of a loaded glitter polish, topped with a heavy coat of top coat!

Let's jump in, shall we??  First off, a warning - this is picture heavy, I couldn't narrow it down any more than what I've got here!

Isn't it PRETTY?!?!?!  *gushes*  I am completely in love with this!  And to top it off, I'm not sitting in a corner, rocking back and forth because I'm terrified of the thought of removing this!  I'M CURED!!!

So what is it??  This look is 2 coats of Ninja Polish Sapphire Dreams (lovingly named by Amber over at And Then There Was Polish) which is a blue shimmer polish (swatch to come tomorrow) that reminds me of a shiny new car, topped with Elixir Lacquers Wynter Wonders which contains holographic micro glitter and small squares and lavender hex glitters, both from the holiday collections :)

It's a good thing the sun isn't very bright on my way to work because it could be tricky driving with this masterpiece in the bright sunlight... like a moth to a flame :D

So where can you get these??  Ninja Polish polishes can be purchased here and Elixir Lacquers can be purchased here.  Sometimes the Ninja Polish polishes are a little tricky to get a hold of, but you can sign up for certain polishes so you are e-mailed when the polish you want is restocked :D

So I know this isn't overly Christmas-y, but I still consider it a Christmas mani because the look was achieved using only Holiday collection polishes :D

Are you a glitterholic or glitterphobic??

Nail Polish Canada Nail Art Challenge Week 3

Hello lovely ladies!  I apologize that I haven't been posting regularly the last few days :(  December is proving to be a busy month :)

I went and got some Christmas shopping done yesterday, I'm pretty well done, just need to do a little more thinking to come up with something for one more person and go get a couple more things and I'm done :)  Then I get to wrap them!!!  That's my favourite part!  I just have to think about how I'm going to bling out my gifts this year :D

Today is the last day of the Nail Polish Canada Holiday Nail Art Challenge.  This has been lots of fun doing these designs :)  This week's theme is "Trim the Tree".  I knew I had to do a full mani with the water marble Christmas trees I did from last week.  I also received Ninja Polish No Peeking this week, so I wanted to incorporate that too!

This didn't turn out quite like I pictured in my mind, I definitely like the trees I did in my "Presents" mani for last week, but I have run out of time and can't re-do it, so I just rolled with it :)

For my marble I used Sinful Colors Exotic Green, Avon Electric Green and OPI Who the Shrek Are You?. I think that Exotic Green and Electric Green are too close in colour to marble together for a Christmas tree.  For the trimmings I used Avon Ruby Slippers and rhinestones.  I also fished for some star glitters from Ninja Polish No Peeking :)

My accent nails are Zoya Logan with Ninja Polish No Peeking.  This is an awesome Christmas glitter, and I love it!  I would love to wear this every day of December!

Don't forget head over to the collaboration of all the bloggers participating in the Nail Polish Canada Nail Art Challenge to vote for your favourite :)

Thank you to Nail Polish Canada for hosting this Nail Art Challenge, it's been a lot of fun!  And congratulations to all the girls who participated in this Challenge, everyone did a great job!

Candy Cane Nails

Good morning lovelies!  Aren't you so excited that the Christmas season is upon us?!  I can't believe we have no snow, and it's 13°C today :(  It's supposed to drop off and we are to get flurries overnight, woohoo!!! :D

So I have another Christmas mani for you today -- Candy Cane Nails!  This is turning out to be lots of fun doing Christmas nails.... now if only I could get away with doing them year 'round... *rubs chin in pondering way*

This also corresponded with the SMYTC Holiday Nail Art Challenge, so I linked up with that too :D

YUM!!!  Hehehe!  These turned out great, and although they aren't as "perfect" as I pictured in my head, I still love them!  That's the fun thing about water marbling -- it's always a surprise how they turn out :D

For this I used a base colour of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On (2 coats).  Then using Essie Marshmallow, Julep Delaunay and Avon Electric Green, I did alternating colours in my marble -- white, red, white, green, white, red, etc.

So while I call these "candy cane nails" (that was what I was going for...) they remind me more of these round red, green and white peppermint hard candies.  If only I had used a darker green, they would have been a perfect match!  :)

Source

Update:  I was at Subway getting my lunch today and the girl behind the counter making my sub looks at my nails, looks up at me, grins and says "you nails look like candy canes!  They are so cool!!"  Proudest moment right there! <3

Are you going to try something like this?  If you do, please share it with me on my Facebook page!

What is your favourite Christmas candy?  Mine is definitely Ferrero Rocher chocolates, but you can get those year 'round ;)