DAY 12: Stripes

My cell group's Christmas party was held after Christmas and the theme was candy canes! So I decided to do a candy cane french tip, which didn't go very well. Haha! I had problems controlling the brush to draw very thin lines. But here it is! Stripes challenge completed!

Green Tips This Christmas

French tips with mistletoe! :D This set of nails is pretty easy to create. Coat a layer of OPI Isn't That Precious, followed by a few coats of transparent minute gold shimmer. This would give it a slight shimmer under the light. Use CG Glittering Garland on the nail tips and use a stripper brush to draw a line across, below the green tips. Using a dotter, dot three red dots for the mistletoe. For the leaves, use a small brush to paint it on. And there you go! 

Christmas Nails!

Christmas is one of my favourite times of the year. There's something so festive and joyful about it. :)

Anyway, this year I had requests from my friends to do their nails for them, so I came up with a few rough designs, some with reference to online sources. 

This design is based on a snowy theme. There's a snowflake on the thumb, a snowman on the middle finger and icicles on the pinky. The alternate dark and light blue was my friend's idea, and it turned out really nice! I feel that the dark blue does give more contrast to the design. 

This set of nails was inspired by a photo of reindeer nails I saw online. I thought having the reindeer face on the nail was really cute. But I didn't want every nail to have a reindeer face, so I added the antlers. Initially, I left the middle nail a plain white, but my friend wanted the silver glitter stripes. Turned out it really looked more festive after adding the stripes. Both the pinky and thumb are just a plain brown (OPI Wooden Shoe Like To Know).

Golden Tips!

This Christmas I decided to use a gold and black theme for my outfit, so I did nails to match! This is the first time I'm working with glitter, so I'm not too sure if this is considered a good job. I'm kinda worried that all the glitter would have fallen off before Christmas though.

Red and Gold

I did my friend's nails last night, she requested for this dark red and i suggested gold tips for her. Its a really simple french design, nothing fanciful. I would rather much prefer gold glitter tips though. Originally, what I intended to do was to use gold Konad stamping polish to do some stamping for her. Unfortunately, the gold was too faint and it could hardly be seen.

Christmas

Christmas is around the corner and I thought I'll spend some time to think up of some Christmas nails ideas. I was just trying out OPI's Teenage Dream on Skin Food's Red Polish and I believe it has a some what Christmasy feel about it. For a more dramatic look, you could add on some jewels. I don't really use jewels because I find it troublesome to go about doing my daily chores with them on my nails. But I would recommend jewels for this set of nails.

For those who would prefer a lighter shade of nails, you can try this look. OPI's Teenage Dream layered over OPI's Isn't That Precious? .

I'll be doing my best to come up with more ideas for Christmas. So do check back again. :)