Starbucks Christmas Cup Nails

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you're all having a lovely day, whether you celebrate Christmas or any other holiday. I was inspired to do this manicure by the annual Starbucks red cups that they start using around Christmas time. This year's feature a bird and a snowman, and I finished the look off with snowflakes.

The background colour of this manicure is OPI The Thrill of Brazil, then the white parts are OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, the darker red is OPI Skyfall, the ornament and hat are OPI Nein! Nein! Nein! Ok Fine!, and the gold is Quo by ORLY Filthy Rich.

I'm really excited about these nails, they're my favourite Christmas nails I've done this year! I won't keep you reading long because I'm off to spend some time with my family!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Christmas Tree Nails

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! Today I have some Christmas tree nail art to show you. I used a dotting tool to (messily) make the trees, then decorated them with glequins and glircles from Born Pretty Store.

To create this look I used two Christmas polishes from China Glaze's Holiday collection from last year - 2011. The two colours I used were Poinsettia and Holly-Day.

I'm not too excited about these, they're pretty mediocre, but I do like the idea of using glircles as ornaments on a Christmas tree.

Make sure to check back tomorrow for my last Christmas nail look!

Inspired by Dressed Up Nails

So, Whitney from Dressed Up Nails has really been making a splash in the Nail Art community lately with all the stellar manicures she's been posting. We're both in a polish-loving facebook group and every time she posts a new picture I can hardly stop my jealousy at her freehand talent! Today I decided to try to recreate a lovely Christmas wrapping paper-esque manicure she did which you can check out here. I decided to mix up the colour scheme a bit and went for teal and gold using OPI Ski Teal We Drop and Quo by ORLY Filthy Rich.

Now if you're wondering what happened to my pinky, I decided that I was probably better at freehanding than at using striping tape. Turns out I was wrong.

Here's a nicer look of the three nails that turned out nicely. I think I'll leave the elaborate tape manis to Whitney because this, although gorgeous, was not worth the time and effort!