Today's challenge is for the Facebook Winter Nail Art Challenge group. The theme is Lucia or Christmas Where You Live. Since, I don't celebrate Lucia I decided to go with the latter of the two.
After some deliberation I decided that I would do a festive skittle manicure. For me nothing brings about the Christmas spirit like the decorations do. I have a difficult time feeling the holiday spirit until the tree is up and the lights are hung, then it's on! Luckily this year we got our tree up early, so I have been in a festive mood for a few weeks now. Here is the nail art design I created:
I used three different polishes along with a glitter topper to create this look. The green is Revlon Colorstay 'Rain Forest,' the red is China Glaze 'Seeing Red,' the gold is Zoya 'Brooklyn.'
Over the red I applied my glitter topper, Formula X 'Voltage.' This is a red jelly based topper with gold glitter, This is the first time I have ever used it. I then applied a quick drying top coat and let dry completely. I then used my chevron nail vinyls from nailvinyls.com and applied my green polish. Nothing says Christmas like red and green together.
For my mid finger I was inspired by Instagramer @SharingVu and drew some Christmas ornaments. Using my gold I started by drawing two round bulbs, I used a dotting tool to do this. I then added a string with a small bow on top. Lastly, using my glitter topper and a very small dotting tool (you could also use a toothpick,) I applied a little stripe across the ball.
And what's Christmas without a Christmas tree?! For my ring finger I started with my gold and applied a quick drying top coat. I then used scotch tape to outline a triangular tree shape and applied my glitter polish. I applied another coat of quick drying top coat and let dry again. Once dry, I replaced my scotch tape in line with the previous lines and then applied a few criss-crossing pieces of stripping tape and then applied my green over top. Finally, I removed all the tape and applied a gem for my star and some pieces of loose glitter for decoration.
I went ahead and left my thumb and pinkie plain green, though I don't consider this green to be very plain. This Revlon 'Rain Forest' is an incredible dark green sparkly polish that my camera does no justice for, it's really beautiful in person.
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I love the tree and how the chevrons turn out, what do you think? I hope you enjoyed yet another Christmas nail art design, stay tuned for more. Thanks for stopping by, see you next time.
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Your Fellow Plebe,
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