Santa and Elves and Glitter oh my!

Time to unveil my Santa and elves manicure.



It's nothing unique, but bit by bit I'm improving my freehand skills and I'm excited to share it with you all.



I saw these little Santa and elf manis all over Instagram when searching for inspiration, and just knew I had to recreate it!



The amazing glitter polish here is KBShimmer All Decked Out. It is an amazing evergreen jelly polish with gorgeous multicolored and shaped glitter. It is sparkly amazingness and the perfect accompaniment to the Santa and elf accents! This is three thin coats, with a little dabbing.



The other polishes I used were, Zoya Hunter as the base for the elf, ORLY Candy Cane Lane as the Santa red and Zoya Ziv for the belt buckles.

This manicure, while not wholly original for me, was definitely a challenge for me. I really absolutely loved how it turned out and I am completely in love with this challenge as it is allowing me to think outside of the box and really challenge myself!

In case you forgot what is coming up, or want to partake in all this holiday nail art excitement, here is the prompt again!



Coming up we have some ice blue and white manicure and any line from the 12 Days of Christmas song!

Don't forget to check out some of the other ladies who are involved with this challenge, they are really knocking it out of the park!!!


   

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Purple and gold single chevrons

I own quite the collection of a-England polishes and awhile ago I thought they weren't getting the right amount of love! So I pulled out Lady of the Lake and decided to do a nail art look with it.



I am truly in love with nail vinyls, they really make doing fun things like chevrons super easy. And it's a quick easy way to get a nice finished nail art look.



a-England Lady of the Lake is a beautiful scattered purple holo. I thought it was very regal and royal looking so I paired it with Zoya Ziv, a beautiful gold foil nail color. Because the gold foil make Ziv look a little textured, I don't think this manicure looked as good as it could. I think it might have been paired better with a smooth metallic gold to match the soft look of Lady of the Lake.



To give the look a little more depth I alternated the directions of the single chevron and made accents of the opposite colors.



You can purchase nail vinyls at a number of indie nail polish companies, I recently got a variety pack from NailVinyls.com, which is where these single chevrons came from.

So far I've only done single chevrons, lightening bolts, lines and regular chevron designs, but there are a lot of super cute nail vinyls out there. What are your favorite nail vinyls?