Anyway for my green themed nails I was a bit stuck trying to work over the red Gelicious. I didn't want to just paint over it again, I wanted to either work with it or remove it but I hate having to remove Gelicious while it's still got so much wear left. I've been painting over and removing polish from the Gelicious so much and it takes it all without any lifting but that red base has been my own little personal challenge for over a week now. I thought red was good for Christmas but it's not so good for nail art underwear. I have a lot of green polishes and green is my favourite colour but for me Christmas green is all about the tree. We have a Christmas tree theme coming up later in the challenge so I didn't want to paint trees. In the end I just painted some green pine branches across the red background.
I used a bunch of Ulta3 greens for this, mainly because the Ulta3 drawer is the one closest to my desk :) This was actually a really quick and easy design to do and I liked the feathery foliage.
This led nicely into the next manicure challenge which was Aussie Nails Monday with the theme of DELICATE. I had a lot of ideas for delicate but wanted to make it Christmasy. We've been decorating the tree and I think pine needles look soft and delicate, (and hurt like crazy when they stick up your nails) and I keep having to remind the boys how delicate the baubles are. Some of them I've had for many years and they're made of iridescent glass. So for delicate nail art I added some Christmas balls to my pine branches.
I stuck them on with topcoat then covered the lot with a layer of INM Out The Door Northern Lights Hologram Topcoat Gold. Of course there was no sun so I couldn't get a decent sparkly photo :(
Now todays Aussie Christmas Challenge theme is ELF and I knew exactly which polish I wanted to use but it was time to lose the red. My nails really needed cutting and it was getting a bit hard to come up with ways to do nail art for these challenges over red so last night I removed the Gelicious, cut my nails and this morning I redid them with Gelicious Alive, a very slightly pink tinted clear. This will be my new 'underwear' polish for the next few weeks. For elves I used some nail stickers I've been hoarding since last Christmas. Strangely though the colour has faded a lot. They've been kept in my drawer away from the light but I'm sure I remember them being a lot more colourful when I got them.
I don't use nail stickers much. I prefer water decals because I find stickers too thick usually but these are actually nice and thin. Shame about the colour. Then for my special elf polish I used Loki's Lacquer Cotton-Headed Ninny Muggins. The name is a quote from the movie Elf, which if you haven't seen you should (go on it's Christmas, watch some silly Christmas movies). I love the name and I love the polish. I don't know if Tara will be selling this one but she should. It looks great layered over dark colours to bring out the blinginess of the glitters but for this I just wanted it on it's own across my tips. I think I still had delicate in mind and wanted the tiny glitters to stand out against my nail colour.
It's a really smooth glitter. This is without topcoat because I didn't want to risk wrinkling the stickers but the glitter feels like it has been topcoated. It sparkles so much when the light hits it. I feel like I've dipped my nails in a pot of Christmas magic :)
Here's the rest of the girls doing the Aussie Nails Monday Challenge.
Kate - Mckfresh (Instagram) Jessica - starting January :)
Fantastic manis Bec. Love the pine branches and then with the dimantes added? Gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteLoving both mani! Loki's Lacquer Cotton-Headed Ninny Muggins looks awesome~
ReplyDeleteBeautiful mani's and such a lovely natural family photo :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful mani's and such a lovely natural family photo.
ReplyDeleteI love both designs they look amazing! :)
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