Take Your Nails from Grinch to Gorgeous with This Holiday Nail Art How-To - Makeup and Beauty Blog
Written past Kerry
Blogger Kerry wants to assistance usa go our nails into the holiday spirit with a work of nail art in today's guest post.
I love winter. Hot cocoa, scarves, fireplaces, snow, Christmas music and movies, and the opportunity to get away with crazy nail art. I beloved using glitter during the winter months — I think there's merely something special about the way information technology sparkles in the wintertime sun. Today, however, I desire to bear witness you a unproblematic boom design that I love to rock the calendar week before Christmas. This is an unexpected blast look that'southward fun nonetheless understated.
NOTE: The links in here are just to bear witness y'all what products I used, and not to recommend the particular sites. I purchased everything shown here at Five Beneath, Ulta, and Walgreens.
The start pace is to apply a base coat. I like using Sally Hansen'due south Insta-Grip Fast Dry Base Glaze, simply utilize whatever you lot experience comfortable with.
Once that'due south dry out, apply two coats of red polish. I used ORLY'due south Monroe's Cherry because it's a bright Christmas-y color. If y'all notice that the color clashes with your pare tone, employ whatever crimson that you like. For this design, though, I think it's amend to stick to creams than shimmers. Monroe'due south Ruby-red does have the subtlest of subtle red shimmer, but you really tin can't run into it unless y'all get millimeters abroad from my nails in the sunlight.
Apply a fast-drying tiptop coat of your choice. At the moment, I'k really loving Poshé, but I've never tried Seche Vite, its supposed competitor.
Now for the fun part. Using white smooth (I'm using a striper from Color Club), describe a line down the center of your ring fingernail.
Now, take your favorite black polish. Here, I used the striper from Color Club. If you don't accept a striper, no worries — just grab your fave black polish and a fine-tipped paint brush. Draw a line horizontally across the center of your band fingernail. Make it thicker than the striping brush itself, only not too thick. Permit these two colors dry out for a scrap, so the adjacent color doesn't smear the two previous ones.
And, for the pièce de résistance — get out your blingiest gold polish. I chose the Milani holographic nail polish in 3D. Using a fine-tipped paint brush, depict a square around the intersection of the black and white shine. Be sure to make the top and bottom lines of the gold square straight in a higher place (and below) the blackness polish and the left and right gold lines straight next to the white stripe. In other words, make the heart of the gold square completely black.
Echo this process on your other band fingernail, slap on a elevation coat and voila! You now have Santa's belly on your band fingers. Milk shake ‘em similar a basin full of jelly! 😉
At this point, feel free to add together to your other fingernails. I've drawn on Santa hats, presents, and painted on some serious dark-green and red glitter. You could, of course, keep them as is to continue the focus on Santa'south big ol' belly. My fiancé, who usually couldn't care less about what I accept on my nails, really thinks these are pretty cool.
Happy holidays!
Written past Kerry
Kerry, a contempo graduate with a passion for writing, editing, PR, and all things beauty, loves to test and review new beauty products nigh as much as she loves to play with boom polish. Her fiancé doesn't empathise her compulsion, just if you do, hitting her upward on Twitter @HonestReviewer, or finish by her web log.
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