Showing posts with label holiday manicure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday manicure. Show all posts
Friday, December 14, 2012
Silver and Gold Manicure
Howdy, everyone! Ah, Friday...the beautiful beginning to the weekend. That is, if you have a job wherein you aren't required to work weekends...I have such a job. But, at least it's a fun job!
I've got another holiday manicure for you today. This one is super sparkly and packed with holo goodness. Take a peek:
Silver and gold and glitter and holo, oh my! I started this manicure by just swatching 3 coats of China Glaze Angel Wings and Glistening Snow. These two polishes are part of China Glaze's 2012 Holiday Joy Collection and both are micro-glitters with a holographic punch. Angel Wings is the gold and Glistening Snow is the silver. Both of these applied easily with decent coverage on the second coat. Initially, I was going to leave this manicure as just the two polishes on alternating nails, but why stop there? I ended up doing glitter gradients on each nail. I paired O.P.I.'s Servin' Up Sparkle, a silver micro and hex holographic glitter in a clear base, with Angel Wings while Glistening Snow matched up with e.l.f.'s Gold Star, a large hex glitter in a clear base.
Here's another view:
I may have a holiday party to go to Saturday night, so I'll be sporting this glitter-fest because I think it's just perfect! What do you guys think?
Thanks so much for reading!
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Snowflake Manicure
Howdy, everyone! I'm on a roll this week, three days in a row of posts...woot, woot! I love today's manicure so much, I'm just gonna jump right in:
Isn't this fun? This is a perfect holiday manicure without being too in-your-face-Christmas lol I stared with a jelly sandwich. One coat of Revlon's Royal, one coat of Julep's Jordan, and another coat of Royal make up this pretty sandwich. Jordan is a gun-metal silver hex and micro glitter in a clear base and Royal is the most perfect royal blue jelly there ever was. Seriously, I broke my ban on Revlon polishes to buy this one cuz it's just too good to pass up! After the sandwich dried, I added some hand painted snowflakes for accents. I used a white striping polish and topped my dots with a holographic glitter striping polish. I got the idea for the design from Laatikollinen Lakkaa (again). If you've got a minute, you should really check out her Advent Calendar posts. She's got some great holiday manicure ideas! I changed things up a bit from her original design by using a dotting tool to add some extra dots around the edges. Here's another look:
I hope to keep up with my holiday manicures, since I'm having so much fun with them. Thanks so much for reading and please check back to see what's next!
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Two for One
Howdy, everyone! I know it's been awhile since I've posted, so I hope some of you are still reading. My life has been a bit of a whirlwind of late, so I haven't had the time to keep up with my blog. I had a few spare moments today, so I thought I'd show you a couple of manicures I've done in the last few weeks. Both of these manis are great for holiday wear.
The first manicure I have for you is really just a swatch of a new color I picked up at Walgreen's awhile ago. Here's a peek:
....more after the jump....
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