Easy Candy Cane Nails

Yay for Christmas!! With the kids and presents and family coming tonight I wanted something fast and easy, but still semi holiday-ish. So I went for some quick Candy Cane stripes.

China Glaze Ring in the Red, and LA Colors Art Deco White

As you can see my free hand needs a LOT of work, but it was easy and festive so its a keeper. Hope you like it and Merry Christmas to all!!

Terrible Tree

I recently came across a tutorial from Nailside, for a taped Christmas tree mani, The tutorial was great, and super easy to follow. You can find it here.

Base colour: Color Club Antiquated, Tree: China Glaze Glittering Garland

Once again I tried to challenge myself, but I definitely need more practice. My major problem *I think, was that I used painters tape, and it didn't stick very well, the points kept lifting up and the green kept running under the tape. This was the only half way decent looking one so I kept it long enough to take a pic. I do love the idea of tape manis though, and there are a ton more on Nailside as well as tons of other great nail art so definitely check her out!! Hope everybody is having a fantastic holiday week so far!

First Tape Mani

So I recently did my first tape mani.... exciting right :p  Its nothing special but the colours really make me think holidays.

I used Wet and Wild fast dry Gold and the beautiful, taped using painters tape on the diagonal, and painted the red with Julep Lindsay.  The Lindsay over the gold had a really neat effect cause it dried sort of see through, so you could still see the gold underneath. I really like this one, I'm already coming up with more taping ideas!!

Snowy Fail

I get so inspired by other peoples nail art, I often attempt things that are far beyond my skill set. Well today I thought I would try a wintery sponge gradient. As you can see it was a biiiiiiiiiig fail. I probably should have looked up a tutorial or something but that's not how I roll :p

 I had to mix the baby blue since I only own one blue. So I mixed Color Club Pure Energy with Loreal French tip white, and sponged it on first. I then sponged on some Orly Au Champagne which really did nothing, then I sponged on the Loreal French tip white on the edge of my nail waited 5 mins and gave it another go. Topped it off with a coat of OPI Last Friday Night for a snowy feel, and added some dollar store jewels. In retrospect I would have done this completely differently, and I was such a dope to use Last Friday night cause it made the white blue, but ugggghhhh! overall this was a total fail for me :((

China Glaze Glittering Garland

Well seems like I cant escape the red and greens of the holidays, but since Christmas is my favorite holiday I can hardly complain :D

Here is China Glaze Glittering Garland.

 You can see where I shmucked my pinky >.<

It's a really great deep green with lighter green sparkles. The base colour is a shade darker than its cream counter part Holly-days, and the sparkles aren't your usual super light reflecting sparkles, but they add more of a textured effect which I love. This colour was pretty enough on its own that I didn't even Konad it :P

Holiday Nails of the day!

I wanted a holiday-ish manicure, so I pulled out China Glaze Poinsettia. Going through my Konad disks I actually found a design that reminded me of poinsettias. So here you go.

Two coats China Glaze Poinsettia, Stamped with Konad Gold, plate M74, and one coat of Seche Vite.

 ^^Just finished, messy, and I definitely couldn't see the nail lines, they look so dirty and they totally weren't >.<

  2 days later it started chipping so I put a coat of Essie Matte About You, and I like it WAY more. I'm totally into matte finish, and the Konad Special Gold looks really good. Red and Gold is my favorite colour combo ever. I know the pics are horrible sorry =\

Santa Inspired?!

Lol. Well these were not exactly what I planned but it's what I ended up with so here you go...

Tips are Orly Au Champagne, red is China Glaze Poinsettia, and you can't really see it, but I stamped candy canes from Konad plate M12 with Konad special Gold, and topped with Revlon Speed Dry Top Coat.

Nails of the day

So here's my nails for the day.
This was an attempt at holiday nails. I really like how it turned out. I used OPI Base Coat, and 2 coats of China Glaze Holly-day for the base colour. I stamped the dot pattern from Konad Plate M60 with Konad special gold stamp polish.

I hardly got any nail polish on my fingers :D this is always a great feat for me!

Instead of going for the usual glossy top coat, I thought this would be a great chance to try out my new Matte About You from Essie. It gave it a great non-shiny satiny type finish (don't you love my descriptions :p ) that reminds me of Christmas tree ornaments.
Next time though I think I would stamp the gold after the matte coat, cause it dulled the gold quite a bit, but I still love how it turned out. Hope you like it!!

New Stuff!

So I just received my latest order from Nail Polish Canada, and I was so excited. This was supposed to be my last order of the year according to my husband, but they just got Nubar in, so I may have placed another one but shhhh. Here are a couple pics of what I got.

I actually got 2 of the China Glaze Holiday sets, but being the nerd that I am ripped the packaging off right away and they were too mangled for the photos :P

The seasonal sparkles set: comes with Pointsettia, Holly-day, and Twinkle Lights.

Meet Me Under The Mistletoe set: comes with Ring in the Red, Glittering Garland and Velvet Bow.
It also came with a lip gloss which is not pictured and will probably end up going to my sister. Velvet bow is not quite so purple in real life, its more of a dark blood red, and totally gorgeous.

Konad M19 Plate. I also got a new scraper and the special gold polish but I was a dummy and forgot to put them in the pic.

Zoya - Angella. I LOVE this colour. I bought it as something to wear with a french manicure (and it was on sale) and it is really spectacular. It's frosty sheer white with a mainly pink shine, but if you wiggle your fingers around you'll also see blues and purples.

Last but not least Essie Matte About You. This was a toss up for me cause I really love the matte look, and was considering Zoya Posh, but I think this opens up so many more options, and I'm excited to use this!

Well I don't know if anybody else cares about seeing these pics, I know I like to check them out when other people post so hope you like.
Do you own any of these? Will you be picking any up?