Red and Green Sparkle Chevrons

Today's challenge in the 12 Days of Christmas Art is a classic holiday theme: Red and Green.

I was so excited for this prompt, I had just the idea, and then that idea failed. But more on that later. My motto, if at first you don't succeed, try try again. And so I did.



Remember the star of my last manicure (Two Turtle Doves), well after I finished taking photos of that manicure, I finished it off by doing this manicure!



You'll have to excuse my photography skills with this manicure, the sparkle makes my camera go a bit mad. The manicure started out with two coats of Painted Polish Between the Pines on all nails except my ring finger (where the gold was in the last manicure), on that nail I did two coats of China Glaze Ruby Pumps. Then I added the single chevrons and two coats of the opposite polish on each nail.



The chevron placement wasn't perfect, but I do like the results. As I said earlier, this manicure was inspired by a manicure fail I had earlier in the season. Apparently some red pigment is a little difficult.



This is Smitten Polish Nose So Bright, and it is an AMAZING pure red holo. I think it just needs to speak for itself. Instead I combined it with Literary Lacquers A Thousand Christmas Trees. Yes that was meant to be green, see what the red pigment did to it? So much fail, so much sadness. Anyway, lesson learned, at least the second attempt didn't have that same problem!

Have any of you ever had mishaps with a red pigment?!

Don't forget to visit the other ladies doing this challenge, I can't wait to see what everyone has done with this prompt!


   

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Two Turtle Doves

To be honest, I wasn't too jazzed about this prompt in the 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge. The prompt was any line in the 12 Days of Christmas song – they all in include some sort of birds or dancers or just nothing that really got me excited.

But what did get me exited was Painted Polish's Between the Pines, which I got shipped rather quickly to me and as soon as I saw it I just knew I had to put it on!



Between the Pines is a most special holographic microglitter suspended in an evergreen jelly base. It only takes two coats to reach this beautiful opacity. For the accent finger, I decided I would use a stamp which basically covers the "Two Turtle Doves" and thus, follows the prompt, but the true star of this manicure is Between the Pines.

 

For for the accent nail I used two coats of Nicole by OPI On a Guilt Trip and stamped these two birds in a tree using ORLY Candy Cane Lane. On a Guilt Trip was bit thick but dried pretty quickly to a beautiful satin like finish. I used the Bundle Monster BM-H22 plate.



Don't worry, this won't be the last you see of Between the Pines, I may or may not have incorporated it in my red and green mani for the next prompt!

Make sure you see the other ladies in the challenge in the inlinkz below. I'm sure they were much more creative than I was in this prompt!


   

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