Season’s Greetings!

The holiday season is upon us and I hope that you please slow down, take it all in and enjoy it with you and yours and really, enjoy the season!

Started with a base of Orly Monroe's Red and Colores de Carol Sleigh What?! on Cupcake white blur.

Topped the red Orly with Saucy Sauce Reindeer Games.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with images from MoYou London Noel 21 on all fingers except thumb using Painted Polish Blanc Slate, CjS 218.  Thumb image is from Bunny Nails HD-F.

Shadow stamped the thumb using MdU 9, then added berries with same polish on all mistletoe.  Lastly, isolated a mistletoe from the full nail image and added to the thumb with same colours.

Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

 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.

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Season's Greetings!

I was wanting something a little different and seen a polish that I got not too long ago sitting on my mani table from Red Eye Lacquer and thought it would be a great base for a little nontraditional looking mani I wanted to do so used it for these nails...this is what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Red Eyed Lacquer Don't Feed The Bear!, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using image from Lina 4 Seasons-Winter 03 using EdK Lili, no top coat.  Also stamped words from HD-F on the thumb; the thumb mistletoe is from the same Lina plate.

Shadow stamped (not very well) using MdU 9 and then added a few dots for berries on the rest of the nails.

Added top coat to finish.  I wasn't happy with this at all; the berries bled out on the middle finger and my shadow stamping wasn't very...well, shadow-y.

So the next day, I removed the stamping on the middle and thumb, added another coat of the base polish and then restamped the images, including better shadow stamping on the thumb, then topped it with another coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.  Shadow stamping isn't perfect, but better than the night before lol.  

Different lighting.

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Season's Greetings!

Still trying to get all my holiday nails shared before the season is over.  So sorry to spam you with all the holiday nails now but it's either that, or they wait until next year!  Some will probably wait anyway!  

Started with a base of three coats of Fancy Gloss Pistachio Chip.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using image from Moyra 57 Winter is Here using MdU 98 with an accent nail of Bunny Nails HD-F using MdU 9.

Moyra 57 Winter is Here

Added some dots using MdU 9 on all nails except ring; stamped it with Mdu 98 on it with same Moyra image.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

 Thanks for looking!

Hope, Peace, Joy!

Tis the season for Hope.  Peace. And Joy!  I wish you this, this holiday season!

Started with a base of two coats each of Colors by llarowe Little Red Corvette and Girly Bits Squirrel Sample 2.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using What's Up Nails B003 using MdU 1.

What's Up Nails B003

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using images from Mdu Christmas 1 (thumb and ring), MdU Christmas 2 (pinky), Bunny Nails HD-F (middle) and and Delaney Noel A001 (index) using MdU 2.  Finished with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Season's Greetings!

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Last of the Christmas Nails!

Hopefully you had a great holiday season!  This is what I'm wearing right now; I had done these decals a couple weeks ago but didn't have a chance to wear them before Christmas but didn't want to waste them, so put them on Boxing Day (I think it was!).  

Started with a base of two coats of Essie Go With The Flowy, no top coat.

Added a coat of Elevation Polish LE Yeti The Stone Warrior.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

These are the stamper decals I was referring to; used mix of acrylic paints for most; the poinsettias are Cbl The Mightly Red Baron.

Creative Shop 36

Applied stamper decals; the images are from UberChic Christmas-01 (poinsettia) and Creative Shop 36 (pine cone and cardinal).  Stamped the pine needles on the middle using same Creative Shop plate.

Applied a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top to all fingers except middle.

My favourite image!

Added words to middle finger using an image from Bunny Nails HD-F using Girly Bits Fire Engine Red, then topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

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Tim Hortons 2016 #WarmWishes Mani

Ever holiday season, I look forward to the seasonal cups that Tim Horton releases for their beverages. This year didn't disappoint and I've had at least one of every size over the last few weeks during my near daily trips for my morning triple-triple or sometimes a smaller regular later in the day.  So decided to do a mani based on the four different designs this year; snowman is  small, nutcracker is a medium, snowman is a large and reindeer is an extra-large.  This is what I came up with!

Started with with a base of CND Creative Play You've Got Kale, L'Oreal Plaid Please, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and China Glaze Desert Sun. All are two coats, no top coat.

Added  coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I wasn't sure what I was going to do with the thumb; I ultimately decided to sponge on all the colours and hoped they turned out decently as they aren't really colours that I would pick to go together.

For the sweater design, used an image from Bunny Nails HD-F using CND Green Scene over the CND and the rest are custom blends using a combination of polishes and/or MdU stamping polishes.

Topped everything off with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I made a few stamper decals using UberChic UC Christmas-01, for snowman, Born Pretty BP-11 for collar, MJ VII for reindeer and CICI & SISI 30 for moustache on nutcracker.

Applied the stamper decals as shown below.  Whatever else shown is freehand with brush and acrylic paints or polishes.  

Topped everything off with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

For the thumb, added words from same Bunny Nails plate, accenting with holly from EJB-03 which I have used time and time again this year!  They just seem to be the perfect holly and in a great size for my nails!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

The next morning, I decided to add a coat of Girly Bits Polish Matte'rs to be more in line with the finish of the cups.

Here's what the cups looks like if you haven't seen them (photo courtesy of Tim Hortons).

Thanks for looking!