Frosty the Snowman Nail Art

Frosty the snowman was a happy, jolly soul, with a corn cob pipe and a button nose, and two eyes made out of coal.  What better snowman to create than Frosty himself for NPQ Christmas challenge: on the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me: six Frosty Snowmen!

I started out with one of my favorite indie polishes Lucky Lacquer 'Alpine Phlox.'  I thought the Alpine in the name really made this the right base polish to start with.

I then hand painted Frosty using both polish and acrylic paint.  Instead of making this a long winded tutorial  I took pictures at each step.  Start with the smaller pictures and work your way round.  If you have questions about this or would like more guidance just ask, I'll be glad to help the best I can.

Because I wanted Frosty to feel at home I added some falling snowflakes on my other nails in the form of little criss-crosses and small dots.

I really love this 'Alpine Phlox' and Frosty didn't turn out to bad either.  I hope you enjoyed this brief blog post, stay tuned for more Christmas themed nail art.  Thanks for stopping by, see you next time.

Your Fellow Plebe,

 

Christmas Spirit Nail Art

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.

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.

Your Fellow Plebe,

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Mistletoe Nail Art

On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, eight mistletoe!  For the fifth Nail Polish Queens Christmas challenge I created this sexy mistletoe manicure.  I went for the sexy approach since you are supposed to kiss under the mistletoe.

As it was pointed out by one of our Queens mistletoe and holly are not the same thing.  I was going to cheat and go with a more holly like design but then it wouldn't really be a challenge now would it.

I started off with China Glaze 'Conduct Yourself' and Sinful Colors '24 Karat'.  I love this burgundy and gold combination.

I then used my bornprettystore.com image plate QA57 and stamped the little x-shape pattern with 'Conduct Yourself' over the '24 Karat.'  I also used a striping brush and 'Conduct Yourself' and framed the entire nail.

This is the same image plate that I used my Glittery Snowflake manicure.  I have had a great deal of trouble with stamping but I have had the best luck with the image plates I have purchased through bornprettystore.com, not to meant their prices are great.  If you are interesting in purchasing from bornprettystore.com use coupon code: CREATEX31 for 10% off your purchase.

I then used two shades of green to draw squiggly vines and added small dots for leaves on my mistletoe.  I used Revlon 'Emerald' and a green Art Club stripper for my green shades.

To give the mistletoe a little character I added a few pearls for berries.  These pearls are from my Ciate Mini Manor Advent Calendar, which I am having a blast with.

I did a little clean up and added a shiny top coat to finish off my sexy mistletoe manicure.  I think this would be a great look for a party and in the absence of actual mistletoe you could use your manicure to encourage a kiss from your sweetheart.  I hope your are enjoying your holiday season so far, thanks for stopping by, see you next time.

Your Fellow Plebe,