12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge - Day 8

Holly & the Ivy was today's nail art theme. I wasn't looking forward to it thanks to my Christmas pudding ivy attempts. After a little google search for inspiration I came across Cutepolish's recent YouTube video for a quick and simple design...

I don't particularly think the ivy looks like ivy but I still like the overall look and I think it definitely feels Christmassy. 

I started with a French manicure design, using masking tape and Rimmel's French Manicure White. The then used a festive red and green to complete the holly and ivy look.

Until next time...

12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge - Day 6

For today's nail art challenge I wanted to do a Christmas food related design hence choosing The Christmas Song for my theme ("chestnuts roasting on an open fire..."). I toyed with the idea of doing candy canes or gingerbread men but I decided to do little festive Christmas puddings.

The ivy was particularly difficult to do, I ended up using a toothpick to create the outline of the ivy and then filling each in with a small paintbrush.

Until next time...