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Friday, December 24, 2010

Merry Christmas, My Friend!

Since It's Christmas Eve I was extremely busy! So I did a very quick and simple, but nonetheless festive, manicure! Happy Holidays!

                                            (Excuse messiness, I really was in a hurry.)

Middle finger is Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Emerald City. Index and ring fingers are China Glaze Midnight Kiss, and pinky and thumb fingers are China Glaze Mommy Kissing Santa. All nails are finished with China Glaze Party Hearty top coat.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

With Presents Under the Tree...

Who doesn't love the sight of piles of presents under the Christmas tree just waiting to be ripped open? Well one thing that makes that extr.a special for me is to see all the different wrapping paper! Here's a tribute to just another of the many things I love about Christmas. Each finger, with the exception of the left ring finger, represents a gift that belongs under the tree!

                     Left Hand-
                
                    Right Hand-
                                           (These nails have been through one day of wear)

Left Hand-
       Pinky: Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Celeb City, and Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Red Carpet for                        the swirls.
       Ring: China Glaze Midnight Kiss for the background. Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Emerald City    for the tree, Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow for the star, and China Glaze Frosty for tinsel.
       Middle: China Glaze Sugar Plums, and Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Celeb City is the bow.
       Pointer: China Glaze Mistletoe Kisses, with Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Red Carpet  as the bow.
       Thumb: Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Red Carpet, and Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Celeb City


Right Hand-
        Pinky: China Glaze Mommy Kissing Santa, with China Glaze Party Hearty on top, and the bow is Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Emerald City.
        Ring: China Glaze Midnight Kiss and Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Ocean View is the bow.
       Middle: China Glaze Mrs. Claus, and China Glaze Frosty
       Pointer:Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Ocean View and Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Celeb City.
       Thumb: Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Emerald City and China Glaze Midnight Kiss.
*All China Glaze polishes used are from this years holiday collection.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town!

In only a few days! I can't wait! I just hope he brings some snow along with him...
I used Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear White On for Santas beard and the trim on the hats, the body of the hat is Sally Hansen Maximum Growth Perfect Cherry. Santas eyes are Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Blue! Me Away.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

It's Time For Mistletoe and Holly...

Well, Actually just the holly! I had some difficulties with this one, so excuse any messiness please!

The background is China Glaze Frosty, except on the ring fingers, which is China Glaze Midnight Kiss. The leaves are Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Emerald City. The berries are China Glaze Mommy Kissing Santa.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

In the Meadow We Can Build a Snowman...

   And we can paint one on our nails too! I'm feeling some anti-snow angst, so I thought I could just create a winter wonderland on my nails to fill that void... I figured instead of painting a ton of tiny little snowmen on each nail, I'd just do one that spread across all of them! Most people, Actually everyone, I showed these nails to were confused as to what they actually were. I had to explain the proper way to look at them. So here they are! My thumb nail is just the blue background color, not really photo worthy. It took me about a half an hour to fully complete them. Around my nails is a little messy due to the fact that I forgot to clean those up before taking these pictures.

    The Background on the pointer and half of middle finger is N.Y.C. Cashmere Creme. The rest of the backgrounds are China Glaze Frosty. I used Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear White On for the snowmans body. His hat, eyes, arms, and buttons are Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Black out. And the carrot nose is Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Crushed. I finished off the look with Seche Vite as a top coat.

I'll have better quality pictures up at a later date, I was having some technical difficulties with those.