The One With the Annual Christmas Lights Manicure
9:00:00 AMGood morning polished world! How are you all doing on this last Sunday before Christmas? I am behind in my Christmas manicures because I felt like I was coming down with a cold, so I decided to spend the last few evenings laying low and resting. Good news is, I think I warded it off! Still taking zinc around the clock, but I'm pretty sure if I didn't rest, I would have had a full blown cold by now.
Regardless, I probably am going to end up sick because it went from 8 degrees to a forecasted 40 degrees today. Of course, right before Christmas, my dreams of a white Christmas are melting away. Hopefully the temperature plummets and we get some snow before Wednesday.
Today's manicure is my annual Christmas light design. This is one that I have done since I started this blog oh so many years ago. I've created the design on a white base, glitter base, holographic base, and a negative space base. My favorite though has to be the gradient with a shimmer base because it really gives that illusion of Christmas lights on top of snow. Nothing is prettier than when the snow falls on the lights and they melt through causing a gorgeous colorful glow.
Let's take a look!
Colors Used:
- Morgan Taylor - I'm Drawing a Blanco
- ORLY - White Tips
- INM - Northern Lights
- Acrylics
Last year, I created this design on top of a negative space where I added I'm Drawing a Blanco to the gradient. I had a love hate relationship with the negative space because I felt like where the gradient met the naked nail, it looked a tad yellow. Therefore, this year I decided to do a sheer base of I'm Drawing a Blanco to really give a shimmery snow look before adding the stark white gradient. Overall, I was very pleased with the outcome.
This is also the first year since I started blogging where I fit all four colors on each of the nails. It was a bit tricky on that pinkie nail, but look at me go!
The hardest part of this design has to be painting the lines. My OCD really got to me and I erased them a dozen times before I settled with something I like. When the nails were lined up, the wire really looked like it flawlessly connected from nail to nail.
What do you think? Perfect for Christmas?
Now to paint my final Christmas design!
Until next time, <3.
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