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!
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!
Hello, hello! Two days in a row with a post, shocking, I know! I hope everyone's holiday season is turning out well so far. I've got my first holiday function this Sunday night with the crew from my job. I'm trying to get myself into the spirit of things this year, so I've got another holiday manicure for you today. This manicure is not my own design, as I found it on Pinterest and for once, the link back actually worked. You can see the original design here on Laatikollinen lakkaa. Aaaand here's my version:
So adorable, right?! I started here with 2 coats of Ulta's Salon Formula Nail Laquer in Diva, a pretty holographic glitter in a light pink shimmer base. I used Wet 'n' Wild's French White Creme for the "snowbanks" and dots of falling snow. The snowbanks were done using a method similar to Nailside's Freehand Cloud tutorial. For my accent nail, I used painter's tape to create a long triangle shape and then filled it in with e.l.f. in Green Machine, a dark green creme. I quickly went over GM with Wet 'n' Wild's FastDry in Happy Holidaze!, a teal multi-glitter jelly from their Party Rocks 2012 Holiday Collection, to add some sparkle and depth to the tree. My tree topper is a silver star from Wet 'n' Wild's Stars and Stripes. The ornaments on the tree are done with a dotting tool and e.l.f. in Cherry Bomb.
Overall, I thought this turned out great. I love the sparkle that Diva adds to the whole mani and the nail art came out great! Here's a close up of my accent nail:
I hope you enjoyed this manicure as much as I did. Check back for more holiday nails before Christmas! Thanks so much for reading!
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....
