Snowflake Nail Art

Hi everyone! Happy first day of December! Time for a holiday nail extravaganza here at Newsie Nail Novice!!!

This holiday season, to keep me blogging constantly, I've decided to jump on board the 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge from a Facebook group I'm in called Challenge Your Nail Art! Feel free to join us, the more the merrier! I can't wait to see everyone's manicures!

Now I've never done a nail art challenge that is this involved, especially one that is in one of the busiest months of the year, but I'm all about a challenge and growing in my skills as a nail artist!



So as you can see, Day 1 is snowflakes! Now I've been planning this manicure since the summer. Which seems a little insane, but once I purchased Smitten Polish Nimbus, this vision of it being the background for some beautiful snowflakes just came to me.



Nimbus is the closest I've seen to a white holo polish, and it beautiful and as soon as I saw it, I knew it would perfect for a winter manicure with snowflakes!



Nimbus in on the thicker side, as it is a holo, but definitely not unmanageable and just look at how delicate and beautiful it is!



To stamp, I used my Bundle Monster BM-H02 from a holiday set I received for my birthday in March. I tried to move the stamp around on each nail so it has a more random look to it. I used Zoya Song to stamp the snowflakes, and it worked so beautifully. Song is a beautiful metallic cerulean blue that just screams winter to me!

So what do you think about the challenge? Do any of the challenges intrigue you? Which ones do you want to jump in on?

Come check out all the other lovely manicures of ladies joining in on at the inLinkz below!

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Girly Bits Get Weaponized with stamping nail art

I've been a sucker for these teal/aqua colored holo polishes lately. Once I got a good look at Girly Bits Get Weaponized, I could tell this one was special.

Get Weaponized is a teal linear holo with larger sporadic blue iridescent glitter pieces. Those pieces really made this polish stand out among my ever growing collection of teal polishes. Indoors, those sparkle pieces are more apparent to the naked eye and my iPhone.

Because I wanted to bring out the blue sparkle which makes this polish so unique I thought I'd try some bright blue stamping, using my favorite MoYou Sailor 04 plate. I used the fish scale stamp this time.

I thought the cerulean blue of Zoya Song would be a good complimentary color to Girly Bits Get Weaponized. 

I thought the results were unique, but not exactly the most amazing nail art I've ever done.

Application: Get Weaponized wore very well and applied smoothly with two thin coats. I was happily surprised I could use Song to stamp, will definitely be using that in the future.

Where to purchase: Girly Bits Cosmetics is a Canadian polish maker and you can order her polishes from her website. I got this polish with a gift certificate I won for $11.50. There are so many other polishes of her's that I want, every time I visit her site I see something new that looks amazing!

Extra note: I was out of town this weekend visiting my parents, so I drafted this post on an iPad, so please be forgiving of any errors, etc. thanks!!!