12 Days of Christmas - Final Challenge!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I hope you are all having a marvellous christmas day! I am writing this ahead of time as I am planning to be a little busy but will spend a few minutes checking out your Santa nails!

 At first I really wanted to paint Santa's face on my nail - but this was a disaster! I then tried to free-hand paint on a hat but didn't like how it was turning out at all and stopped midway.

 (Although I LOVE the base polish - it's from the OPI James Bond mini collection - The World is Not Enough, and looks soo nice on the nail. But I felt a little dark to go under the red so switched it for my final attempt).




 So I decided to resort back to my old favourite - stamping! I used a Sephora silver as a base and red stamping polish with a Bundle Monster plate and used a dotting tool to dot on some Sally Hansen White Out for my fluff. I think it looks pretty neat but it's a shame I wasn't able to get closer to my original vision! Perhaps next year!






It has been so much fun completing this challenge and checking out everyones nails. Nice job everyone :)

Christmas Challenge - Tinsel

Happy Christmas Eve! Can you believe it's Christmas tomorrow? The time has gone by so quickly I can't believe it's already here!










So for my staff christmas party I wore this homemade glitter polish and I thought it reminded me of the red and green tinsel I used to have and would decorate EVERYTHING with it. With my move from England I have yet to locate the tinsel but decided to use it for todays challenge! The polish is SO sparkly it was hard to photograph.

At first I was going to just keep it as it was but decided to try adding some tree green around the tinsel to give it more of a tinsel shape and feel. Normally I would have painted the green on first I just really didn't want to go through the hassle of taking off the glitter polish (which incidently came off pretty easily) to just put it back on again.

Challenge # 6 - Gifts

Gifts!
I found this hard to think of something 'different' to do so I settled for something simple. I painted my nails with A England's Holy Grail, set up some striping tape across my nail and then painted it over with Orly's Torrid. I topped it with Essie Lux Effect for a bit of a shimmer and there - gift wrapped nails!

I was going to try to make a bow but thought I'd save that little disaster for the wreath!!

 

12 days of Christmas Challenge - Day 3

So it is Candy Cane day! I didn't have much time and wanted to go for something simple so painted my nails red with Orly 'Torrid' and then used striping tape to make lines across the nail. Initially I was going to use a white base and use the striping tape to make lines which I would tape over and remove (which I really should have done!) but I had a lovely silver striping tape so decided to keep the tape on the nail and finish with top coat.

Although I really like the look of the nail, it took way longer than I was expecting. It was time consuming arranging the tape and making sure it was at the edge of the nail to try and avoid bits hanging over. Furthermore this didn't even work! The very next morning one of the strips was starting to peel its way back until I finally gave in to the irritation and pulled it from my nail! This happened several times over the day and by the evening there were only a few stripes left! I was going to paint in lines with a silver polish but by the time  I removed the rest of the tape my nails were a bit battered looking so I removed the whole thing.

 So although I think it was the best looking of my challenges so far it was on the least amount of time! Not sure if I am going to go simple or complicated with my snowmen yet. I have a couple of snowmen stamps to try, but I also want to have a go at painting one on freehand. We will see!!