Today I'm handing the blog over to the lovely Alicia from The Base Coat, who is the December Nail Artist of the Montht! I discovered Alicia's blog on Facebook! Seriously, such an amazing artist who needs to be showcased! I'm so happy to be featuring her!
Everyone, I'm pleased to introduce you to Alicia!
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Hello everyone!
I would like to thank Alaina for asking me to be the Nail Artist of the Month for December! I was super excited when she asked me, and I am so excited to share my nail art with you!
My name is Alicia, and I blog as TheBaseCoat. I started doing my nails in 2010, and at that point it was mostly just one color - no nail art. Slowly I started getting into nail art about a year later, and now I am obsessed!
Winter is such a beautiful time of year, and I just love winter themed nails! I've decided to share with you one of my favourite winter manicures - Penguins!
For this manicure I used:
- Base blue glitter: Picture Polish Super Styling
- Black: Essie Licorice
- White: Zoya Purity
- Orange: Essie Roarrrrange
- Medium size dotting tool
- Small size dotting tool
- Small nail art brush
To recreate this manicure at home is really easy!
Thank you again for featuring me as the Nail Artist of the month! I hope everyone has a great December!
- Start with your favourite base coat and add two coats of a blue glitter polish.
- Using a black polish, paint a strip of polish down the center of your nail, staying away from the cuticle and edges of your nail. This is similar to creating a ruffian manicure!
- Once step 2 is dry, do the same with the white polish, but start a little further down the nail so you have space on the black for the penguins eyes. Using the medium dotting tool, make two white dots for the eyes.
- Using the small dotting tool, make two black dots in the white dots for pupils.
- Using a small dotting tool or a small nail art brush and the orange polish, make two half dots on the tip of your nail for feet. Also add a small triangle for a nose!
- Add some white dots in the background for snow! Seal in your creation with a good top coat!
Thank you again for featuring me as the Nail Artist of the month! I hope everyone has a great December!
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How awesome that Alicia included a tutorial for her adorable little penguin!!! I'm in love with that base color!!!! Perfect for this little manicure!!
Thank you so much Alicia for this awesome post!!!!
Until next time, <3.
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