Day 5 Reindeer

Another day I wasn't super happy with but I did try so it's only fair to show the end result :)

Challenge Day 4 Bells

I wasn't super happy with how these turned out but I decided I am going to post them anyways. Not all nail art is perfect or turns out how it is in your head but I am still proud of my effort and giving it a shot.

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Day 3 - Snowflakes

Snowflakes are so pretty and unique and just beautiful but getting them on the nails seemed like a really hard task for me. I had so many ideas floating around my head but finally settled on  a jelly sandwich with stamping. I started off with a glue basecoat so I could easily remove the glitter and then put on one coat of Revlon's Calla Lily which is a sheer white jelly polish that shimmers like gleaming snow. It is very very sheer even for a jelly so after I added one coat of Juleps Vivien I added a coat of Sally Hansen's Polar Bare which is also a jelly but a more opaque white. That helped take care of how sheer it was and made the nail line a lot less visible. I added one more coat of Vivien and finished with one last coat of Calla Lily. I had to let it dry quite a long time before I could even think of doing stamping because it just would have destroyed the entire mani. For the stamping I used Maybelline Bold Gold which has got to be the best gold stamping polish ever! If you don't own this seriously go out and buy it now. I used Bundle Monster plate 323 for the snowflakes and it really just brought the whole thing together and I fell in love. I topped everything off with one coat of HK Girl.

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Day 2 - Candy Canes

When I was little, well even now, my favorite type of candy cane were the blue raspberry ones. There is just something about a candy that turns your mouth bright blue so you can then turn to people and stick your tongue out at them while asking if it is blue :) So for candy canes I knew I wanted to do blue ones but then I started thinking about the multi-colored packs ant thought that would be really fun so for today's theme I have four different flavors/color combinations of candy canes. For all of the nails I used stamping using Cheeky plate CH11.

Polishes Used:
Blue Raspberry: Revlon Coastal Surf for base & Julep Eloise stamped
Grape: Sally Hansen Good to Grape base & Sally Hansen Insta-Dry Lively Lilac stamped
Peppermint: OPI Thanks So Muchness base & Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Whirlwind White stamped
Cinnamon: Wet n Wild Candy-licious base & Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Rapid Red stamped

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Challenge Day 1: Red & Green

 

Today is the first day of the challenge and that would red and green day! I was having a hard time feeling Christmas-y until I started my nails. Somehow the red and green really does something to put your head in the frame of mind of Christmas and now I'm all excited! I wanted to keep it kind of simple but of course it needed a little bit of extra pizazz so I through in some red and green rhinestones. For this mani I started out with two coats of Essie Blanc and then one coat of OPI Kyoto Pearl. I then added some stamping with Maybelline Bold Gold using Bundle Monster plate 322. I decided to use my index finger as my accent today so that is where I through the red and green rhinestones and I just love how the 3D effect turned out. It looks a lot better in person than it came across in the pictures. For the rest of the nails I filled in the circles with red and green using Zoya Logan and Blaze.

I am super excited for this challenge and am loving what everyone else has come up with so make sure to check them out too! 

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Butter London Wallis and Hampstead Heath Comparison

This is just a quickly little post where I wanted to show the different between Wallis and the new GOOP limited edition polish from the Bespoke Collection, Hampstead Heath. In my head they were very close when I purchased the set online. I know other people thought the same thing because that was one of the first questions I was asked when I posted a picture to one of the groups I'm in on Facebook about how they two compare to each other. It's good to know that they are really nothing alike so you could get away owning both completely guilt free! Wallis is a more goldeny green and Hampstead Heath is a dark hunter green polish that is full of flecks and just gorgeous. I plan on fully testing out this color very soon. It will be perfect for the holidays! If you are interested in Goop exclusive collection of Trifecta Bespoke Lacquers they can be bought here for $36. I will also include a picture of the entire set so you can check out the lovelies.

Beetlegeuse! Beetlegeuse! Beetlegeuse!!

Beetlejuice is probably one of my top 3 favorite movies of all time so I am super excited to enter this contest and have a chance to win the Beetlejuice Collection by Models Own!! Thanks so much to Paper Thin Nails blog for this amazing chance!

Sidenote: Although the movie is called Beetlejuice and that is how his name is pronounced it is actually spelled Beetlegeuse but better be careful saying it three times no matter how you spell it :)

 

For this I used: Essie Blanc, Cult Nails Nevermore, Cult Nails Deal With It, striping tape, and red & green rhinestones.