Merry Christmas everyone!!
I hope you all had a lovely time over the month. As it is my favourite time of year I have absolutely loved it as always. And I have done a few nail designs over the month so I decided to put them all into one post, hope you enjoy x
Sunday 1st December 2013
It is the first of December so what could be more fitting than advent calender nails.
I'll be honest, the image I had in my head of these was a lot better than the final result. I like the idea but did not like how it turned out. It may be something to work on for next year.
Tuesday 3rd December 2013
After having my Christmas tree up for a few days I got inspired to create Christmas bauble nails. I decided to use one basic colour for the baubles (silver) as I thought multi colours would make the design a bit too busy. To add a bit of change I used 2x different silvers for the base colour and 3x different glitters for the tops. I coloured the outline with various shades of green to give the feeling of branches. I was going to leave it like this but the baubles didnt stand out enough so I decided to do the outline in silver. I love the design and how it turned out.
Sunday 8th December 2013
This design I saw online and fell in love with it. I love the use of jewels for the stars and thought the design was quite classy. I was happy how these nails turned out and was quite sad to take them off.
Saturday 21st December 2013
I had the ides to create Christmas present nails a few years ago but could never decide how best to do it. I was worried I would overdo the colours and patterns and the whole idea had the possibility of turning out badly. This year I decided to take the plunge and kept it as simple as possible.
I started with the base colours, decided to choose silver and gold as they are classic Christmas colours. I looked through my Konad nail stamps for ideas and found a snowflake and a star which I decided to alternate. I quite liked this effect on its own and it reminded me of Christmas wrapping without being too over the top. For the ribbon I chose green and red alternating (matching green to the silver and red to the gold.) I had also found a tree shaped stamp that I decided to use as the present tag. I did like the over all look of these nails. They were fun and bright but not too much.
Tuesday 24th December 2013
I spent Christmas Eve at home with my family as I always do and this time I asked everyone if I could paint their nails. My mum, sister and aunty all jumped at the chance so I bought my polishes over. I decided to do snowflakes for everyone and chose basic glittery colours. I painted all the snowflakes by hand and everyone was delighted with their nails and I liked how the white contrasted with the colours so well. I really enjoyed painting other peoples nails again.
Mum: Red glitter with white snowflake moons
Samantha - Blue glitter with white snowflakes on all nails
Lynn - Green glitter with white snowflakes on thumb and accent nail.
Friday 27th December 2013
I really loved how my aunties nails looked on Christmas Eve so I decided to do the design on my own nails. I love the colours from the glitter and the contrast between the white and the green.
