Another simple Christmas mani!! I can't believe how many of these I've managed to squeeze into the few hours a day I have left to do them in! Seche Vite has been a lifesaver for me since it dries in 15 minutes and I can go to bed without worry of sheet marks!  I actually saw this cute little tree on Zoya's Facebook page and I decided to pair it up with some glitter for a fun twist. The trick to making the tree is to do the outline of it FIRST.  Then fill it in with dots.  I'm glad I purchased the Ornate Collection too because they're coming in very handy this season!  For this one I used Zoya Purity for my white base (and can I just say I'm in LOVE with the white nail look. It's so clean!) and then used OPI Goldeneye (my new favorite gold!) for the top of the tree and Zoya Logan and Blaze for the rest of it.  The glitter is China Glaze Twinkle Lights.  I  just used the brush to kind of dab it on the bottom part of my nail.  I think this is one of my favorites!!  I hope you're all enjoying the holidays and traveling safely!

I'm trying to integrate some Christmas designs into my hectic life at the moment!  It's been rough but I managed to squeeze this one in around midnight the other day.  It started as just a neutral nail since I had gotten my order from Zoya and wanted to try out Avery.  Plus the previous mani I had on was chipped to heck so I thought I'd throw it on quickly.  Then I decided to fancy it up a bit with some glitter.  I see this a lot from Manicurity and it always looks fab on her BUT...my Lynnderella Funny Money doesn't have a clear base like I anticipated (I should have looked into it first!!) so it kind of became a fail.   I tried to make it work by running an acetone soaked brush over the glitter to lift the base and had a fair amount of success but it's still a little dark on my middle finger.  Anyway I wanted to accent with something a bit more Christmas like than just a green/red glitter.  So I added a tape tree on my ring finger.  I used China Glaze Holly-day, Zoya Blaze and OPI Goldeneye for the tree.  Then I matte top coated all nails but the ring. I actually quite liked the look but I didn't top coat the glitters enough and they started to catch on things and drive me crazy a few days later! Oh well...on to the next! :)

All colors by Color Club: Warhol, Pucci-licious, and Twiggie.

Well it looks like I got a little flummoxed about the days for the 31 Days of Christmas Challenge. Seems that I should have posted my glitterbomb yesterday instead of the pudding nails. But, alas, it's too late now! The one rule of the challenge and I've already broken it! lol...still I'm going to keep trying to complete all the mani's!  So here's my late and untimely Christmas glitterbomb.  I used China Glaze Love Marylin (from the gorgeous new Eye Candy 3D glitter collection) and then added a coat of OPI Fresh Frog of Bel Air.  After that I alternated coats of the two for a total of four coats.  It was much more sparkly than this picture makes it look!  But still, very Christmas-y!

Enjoy and thanks for following!

So it's Day 20 of the 31 Days of Christmas Challenge and today's theme is The Nativity.  I was a little bit freaking out about this one.  I am NOT good at drawing faces or people (unless stick figures count!)  so I knew that even attempting to put the actual nativity on my nails would be a hot mess.  And seriously, who wants to be the person who made baby Jesus look a mess? Not me.  So I decided to go with a more abstract version of the Nativity.  Obviously some aspects of it are missing but I think I covered the important parts.  Just in case my art is TOO abstract, I'll break it down for you!  The thumb is the manger.  No baby Jesus can be seen but I used gold to represent hay and also possibly the sort of 'glow' he seems to have in certain depictions.  The index is meant to represent Mary.  In all the nativity I've seen she always has a white under gown, white head piece and blue cloak on.  The middle is representative of Joseph so it's his cane.  The ring finger is the star and the pinky is a sheep.  I know what you're thinking...wouldn't an angel have been a better choice than the sheep?  And you're probably right.  But I love sheep and let's face it, they're cuter than angels any day of the week! :P

Enjoy and thanks for following!

Colors are:
Thumb: Models Own Concrete Mixer, China Glaze Ingrid, Catrice In the Bronx, and Orly Luxe
Index: Ulta Snow White and China Glaze Aqua Baby
Middle: Essie Sand Tropez, China Glaze Ingrid, and Catrice In the Bronx
Ring: Orly Stone Cold, MFL Space Lift,and butterLONDON Diamond Geezer
Pinky: China Glaze Recycle, Models Own Nail Art Pen in Black, and Ulta Snow White

Well I'm finally caught up ladies (and possibly gentlemen!)! It's day 19 of the 31 Days of Christmas Challenge and that means today's inspiration is candles.  I immediately knew I wanted to work a menorah into this one! And today was the perfect day for it.  I know it doesn't have the proper number of candles.  I did try to do two on each nail but it just didn't look as pretty.  And the bottom doesn't fit as perfectly under the candles as I wanted either but you can still see what's going on here! All in all I think it came out rather nice! :)

Enjoy and thanks for following!  

Base coat is: China Glaze Blue Years Eve

Day 14 of the 31 Days of Christmas Challenge has arrived! Today's inspiration is Christmas trees. I had literally NO time to get these nails together so I cheated a bit (gotta love Seche Vite) and just took off the top layers of yesterdays art to put on these. Instead of warming up the Essie Bone Chilling I just threw a coat of Essie Luxe Effects in Pure Pearlfection on top for some shimmer and then stamped on ornaments using China Glaze Glittering Garland and Poinsettia.  The gold tops of the ornaments are Color Club Gingerbread Man and I made a little dot tree with the same green plus some China Glaze Cha Cha Cha and a bit of Orly Prince Charming.  I think the tree would have come out better with more space between the dots.  But you get the idea!!  Also sorry for the poor lighting.  I've been up at the crack of dawn and home late most nights so I haven't seen sunlight in forever! Gotta love the holidays!

So it's day 13 of the 31 Days of Christmas Challenge and that means today's inspiration is angels.  Is anyone else in total shock that today is December 13th? Where is the time going?  Lucky me I have my Christmas shopping complete! And my extra sweet husband gifted me early with a Keurig coffee pot which I can't stop obsessing over.  I'm in love with it and it makes my extra hectic life so much easier!  Anyway onto the nails...I was in a hurry today so this is another stamped mani.  The base coat is Essie Bone Chiling and it was kind of stark for my taste so I warmed it up with some Deborah Lippmann Diamonds and Pearls and then I added a coat of Essie Luxe Effects in As Gold as it Gets.  To top it off and make it more angel-y I added some gold feathered "wings" with some Color Club Gingerbread Man.  Enjoy and thanks for following!!

It's day seven of the 31 Days of Christmas Challenge and that means today's challenge is candy canes.  I had a lot of different ideas on where to go with this one.  There are so many varieties of candy cane here.There are gobstoppers, sprees, sweetarts, mint chocolate...I can go on.  I thought of doing some rainbow-y stripes or some actual candy cane shapes on my nail.  But ultimately, I did this.  I LOVE China Glaze Ruby Pumps and I wanted to be able to use it at least once during all this Christmas madness.  So I started my mani with that and then stamped over the top with some konad white.  Easy peasy. :)

It's day six of the 31 Days of Christmas Challenge and that can only mean one thing. Elves.  I was pretty worried about this one actually.  I imagined myself doing these tiny little elves on my fingers and just making a royal mess of the whole thing.  But I ultimately decided to go a little more abstract with the whole thing and do some elf-like costume art instead.  They came out pretty nice and you can definitely see that they're elf suits!  :)

Enjoy and thanks for following!

Base is Orly Wandering Vine

Belt is: Color Club Gingerbread Man

Black Models Own Nail art pen and white LA Nails art brush used for details.

December is finally here and that means one thing: Christmas nails!!  Over at The Purple Crumpet Fairy, Debbie was kind enough to make this list of challenges for the month of December.  Emma made the lovely list you see above. :)  I love this 31 Day Challenge because it's not demanding.  We're not asked to participate in everyday, but rather, the rule is that if you participate you post on the day of the challenge you did.  Easy enough for someone who gets SUPER busy this time of year like me!  I'm going to try to do as many as possible, though there are some I know I won't be able to do.  If you'd like to join in and do the challenges, we'd love to have you!! If not, that's OK too. Just sit back and enjoy the nails! :)

What I love most about Christmas is the Christmas spirit and spending time with my friends and family.  I had NO idea how to get that on my nails so I went with the thing I love second most!  Snow! Especially at night.  :)  My stamping on this got a little screwed up so you'll have to forgive the accent nail.  Stamping is still a work in progress for me and it seems like when I don't use it often my skills only decrease!  But I think overall it came out pretty nice. 

Enjoy and thanks for following! What's your favorite thing about Christmas?

Base is: Barry M Navy

Glitter is: China Glaze Snow Globe

Don't forget to check out what Debbie, Claire, Kerrie, and Emma came up with for their Christmas mani's!