Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!  I wish you and yours all the best this holiday season!

Started with a base of Fancy Gloss Tree Cakes over a coat of Polished for Days white soft focus, no top coat.  This is the quintessential holiday polish and as I have a backup bottle, I should be good for a few more years!  I also have a couple of the Tree Cake polishes with different tints as these type of polishes are right up my wheelhouse!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Beauty Big Bang 11

Stamped using image from Beauty Big Bang 11 using Moyra SP 02 with an accent nail using Marianne Nails n127.

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Please enjoy your day with the ones that are closest to you.  Be present, revel in the time you have together and put your phone down.

Happy holidays!

 

A Bunch of Rudolph's

Aren't these the cutest reindeer nails?  I luv them!

Clear Jelly Stamper CjS C-80.

Started with a base of Painted Polish Let It Dough over one coat of Polished for Days Blush Soft Focus.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Clear Jelly Stamper CjS C-80 using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief and CjS 062.  I did dot the noses with the same polish because I find sometimes the polish leaves a void (as you can see in the eyes) and I like the full stamped look better.  Looking at these nails, I should have dotted the eyes too, but next time!

After using a stamper that shrinks the image, stamped an image from Maniology M041 on the middle nails using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I wish my nails were longer here so you could see more of the cute faces but maybe another time!  I also really like the base polish; not a typical to me polish but really goes well with these images.

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Happy Holidays!

So happy how these turned out; another mani I could wear all holiday season....if I didn't have so many other plates and polishes that I want to wear!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of Pampered Polishes Rawr over a coat of Polished for Days white soft focus, no top coat.  A great holiday mani base IMO!

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Clear Jelly Stamper CjS C-45 with an accent nail of Lantern & Wren Say It's Christmas! using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief, Moyra SP 02 and SP 14, no top coat.  The accent nails is shadow stamped using the Moyra polishes.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

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Christmas Snowflakes!

It's almost Christmas time so I thought I had better start to share some holiday nails.  While the design isn't very holidayish, the colours scream Christmas, so these count.  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of Wildflower Lacquer Straight Outta St. Olaf and Pahlish Toxic & Timeless, all two coats, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using image from UberChic Let It Snow using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.

Used a dotter and polished up the dots on the nails using same stamping polish.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Decided to matte topcoat so added a coat of Essie Matte About You.

The Wildflower with the matte topcoat just makes this look like velvet; my favourite way to wear this polish for sure!  Thanks for looking!

Snowflakes!

We finally had some snow on New Year's Eve, so I think it's time that I shared some snowflakes nails,  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of skittles using Picture Polish Royal (index and pinky), Picture Polish Heaven (ring) and Moonshine Mani See You in Six Months; all three coats, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using images from MoYou Noel 08, using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.

Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Thanks for looking!

Season's Greetings

It's Boxing Day here in Canada and for me, that is a day to sleep in and take it easy after the hustle and bustle of Christmas Day.  In years past, we would be heading to my husband's family Christmas but his family decided to do things different this year, so it means its a day to chillax at home.  Hopefully you are too today but if not, well, the weekends only a few more days away!  I kind of went crazy with mistletoe nails this year and here is another one!  It didn't turn out as I envisioned but that's OK, I'll try another time!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Olive Ave Polish Scape, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using image from Lina 4 Seasons-Winter 03 and words from Bunny Nails HD-F using Moyra SP02 and SP14.

Used Moyra SP02 for berries on the mistletoes.

Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

 Thanks for looking!

Merry Christmas!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!  

Here's yet another mani that I didn't do the shadow stamping very well so I sure hope Santa brought that magnifying glass light that can be used for future mani's!  

Started with a base of one coat of KBShimmer I'll Be Chrome For Christmas, over a coat of white soft focus, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

CjS C-64

I did a whole bunch of layered stamping on these nails using assortment of Clear Jelly Stamper plates and I'm have to say I'm surprised that they turned out as well as they did given that I can't see the best to line them up (hence the poor shadow stamping!).  Used CjS C-64 on the middle nails, UC Happy Christmas on pinky, and MoYou Noel 05 on thumb, index and ring finger.  Used Moyra SP14, CjS 062, Painted Polish Blanc Slate and Midnight Mischief, as well as a custom colour using Painted Polish Stamped in Mocha with white to obtain the desired shade.

Added a few snowflakes and mistletoes from UC Merry & Bright on a few nails, then topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

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Tis The Season To Be Jolly!

I've never been an expert shadow stamper but I'm even more rusty than usual as you can see on these Christmas nails.  I did ask Santa for a magnifying lamp to help so hopefully, if I haven't been too naughty, it will be under the tree in a few days!  In the meanwhile, continue to see some less than perfect shadow stamping including on these nails.  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of Fancy Gloss Mint Tree Cakes over a coat of white soft focus, no top coat.  I love these crelly flakies and used the Fancy Gloss ones almost exclusively this holiday season for my nails.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Layered stamped using image from MoYou Noel 5 using Moyra SP 05 and CjS 062 stamping polishes, with accent nail shadow stamped using same polishes and image from Lina 4 Seasons-Winter 03.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for looking!