Fourth of July Sparkle Nails

It's quite the conundrum when you do holiday nails for a blog and then totally plan on wearing them until the holiday, but you are itching to change them. I'm telling myself I have to keep them on to show my relatives – but who knows how much longer these will last. I've had them on since Monday, which is crazy!



These are super simple, but the pairing of the glitter and the hue of the red and blue are what makes this look so great! The blue polish is Literary Lacquers Blue Lullaby* and the red polish is Painted Polish Ho-Ho-Holo and they pair perfectly for this patriotic look.



Now these aren't the most inventive nails, stars and stripes, but they totally work for the holiday! For the stamping image I used Winstonia W107 stamping plate from their holiday set.

And I'm still on vacation at the moment, so I'll just leave you with a few more shots of these nails so you can see what they look like in the wild.





Sparkly and fun, perfect for this long weekend! But knowing me I'll probably change it later today. Hahaha, can't keep on thing on my nails for too long.

Anyway I hope you are all having wonderful weekends off with family or what not having great adventures or catching up with old friends. I'll catch y'all next week!

Merry Christmas

So I guess I had to sneak one more Christmas manicure in there and I thought it would be most approriate to share with you today!



This is the Painted Polish Ho-lo Days Trio in all it's sparkly gorgeousness. The Red is Ho-ho holiday, the green is Painted Pines and the champagne is Blinded by Bubbly.

Merry Christmas and Happiest of Holidays to you all. I am honored you visit my blog and just love sharing my nail art with the world! Hope you all have a good break with family and loved ones!

A Christmas Skittle

To end this epic challenge, I decided to have a little bit of this and that! A combination of things I hadn't tried yet but were oh-so-holiday-esque!



I used a host of polishes for this challenge. For the Candy Cane nails I used a base of Painted Polish Ho-ho Holo and painted the stripes with Sally Hansen OMGhost.



For the base of the middle three fingers I used Literary Lacquers I Heard the Bells (a polish I got for free for shopping on Black Friday and purchasing a certain amount).



Then I used KBShimmer's holiday nail vinyls, the one of ornaments and trees, and painted a coat of ORLY Candy Cane Lane and OPI Christmas Gone Plaid (which I just won off a giveaway from Danele at Low Country Lacquer), leaving I Heard the Bells in the center making up the trees and ornaments.



For the final nail, I wanted to do a Christmas tree a-la what I have seen some other people do online with the striping tape. And to top the tree I used a glitter piece for KBShimmer Pine-ing for Yule.



Overall I really LOVED this challenge and I am so excited that I participated. I had such a fun time seeing what everyone else did with the prompts, I am truly grateful too because I feel this challenge made me grow in my nail art skills.

I'll do a wrap up of all my art tomorrow, and I'll give a sneak to what I did last year (which REALLY shows how much I've grown, in photography and nail art).

But once more, please don't forget to hop around to the other lovely ladies participating in this challenge!


   

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