Hello!!
This year I'm participating in a 12 Days of Christmas nail art challenge with the Challenge Your Nail Art group, and today's theme is Christmas Trees! Also, in my Nail Challenge Collaborative group, the theme for this month is 'dots', so I thought I'd try to incorporate some of those here. :)
I started with Orly Smoked out; a green-leaning teal with teeny green glitters and a satin finish:
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| Orly Smoked Out |
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| Orly Smoked Out |
Next, I added a layer of Orly Tinsel, a festive glitter with red holly-berry-esque hexes, green bar glitters, and teeny red glitters:
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| Orly Tinsel over Orly Smoked Out |
I have to admit, I love this look so much, I could stop right there--so festive and fun! But it's only halfway to actual Christmas trees, so onward I went.
So, I stamped a string of lights using Bunny Nails HD-F (you can see my review of this plate here) and some ornaments using MoYou London Fairytale 10 (you can see my review of it here). I stamped with Barry M Silver Foil and Gold Foil; I added dots to make the light portion of my string of lights:
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| O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree! |
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This is one of those looks I just don't want to take off...Hope you like it to!
Hugs,
M.
12 Days of Christmas December 3 Christmas Trees
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
The annual holiday nail blog hop has begun! Share any and all of your holiday nail art and swatches appropriate for the season. The only request is that your links are from THIS YEAR. The blog hop will be open until January 5, 2015 so you can include all of your favorite nail looks of the season. So yes, nail art AND swatches are welcome, as long as they are seasonally relevant.
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The annual holiday nail blog hop has begun! Share any and all of your holiday nail art and swatches appropriate for the season. The only request is that your links are from THIS YEAR. The blog hop will be open until January 5, 2015 so you can include all of your favorite nail looks of the season. So yes, nail art AND swatches are welcome, as long as they are seasonally relevant.
You don't have to be a blogger to share! If you can link to it, you can share it. Just make sure to include some sort of photo. This means if you want to link to your IG, Youtube Channel, Nail Art Gallery, Pinterest or any other account you can, as long as your nail posts are from THIS YEAR.
Need help linking up? Check out this link with basic directions: http://goo.gl/v8ysN3 (pulled from the weekly nail art link parties, but the same concepts apply).
***Get the code here: http://goo.gl/7Vh8Zg Just make sure to sign into InLinkz before clicking the link. Don't have an account? No worries, just create a free account, it takes 2 seconds. Then share the blog hop anywhere and everywhere. Don't forget to pin your favorites***
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How fun! I really like that dark base color.
ReplyDeleteThank you! The polish is the perfect evergreen sort of polish. :)
DeleteWow! This is so cool! I love that glitter and base color!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!!
DeleteYou totally nailed it with the stamp! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteI love Christmas trees so much, this was so fun to do. Thank you!!
DeleteIn the new year, could you make a little tutorial on choosing glitter polishes to add to nail art and stamping manis? I can't seem to nail it.
DeleteHmm...I'm not sure it's my strong point either, I tend to struggle with it a bit. But lets see what I can do...
DeleteOh this is so awesome, genious use of the string glitter polish and stamping and everything :D
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! I had so much fun making this, and I didn't want to take it off!!
DeleteI love how you've done the base, but the stamping is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThank you thank you! The glitter made it very easy, I must say. :)
DeleteLove it! Usually not a fan of the bar glitters but you totally made this work and I can dig the pine needle look of those glitters.
ReplyDeleteI hear you. I like them sometimes, but rarely. This one just called to me!! :)
DeleteToo cute! I have to agree, that bar glitter works great for this. And I'm really loving all the string lights manis I'm seeing recently.
ReplyDeleteThank you thank you! Yes, people do some amazing things with the string lights, don't they? Love 'em. :)
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