Literary Lacquers Always Winter Never Christmas and Snowflakes

After a ridiculously way to long saga with the USPS, I finally got my most recent Literary Lacquers polishes I ordered around Thanksgiving weekend.

This is Literary Lacquers Always Winter Never Christmas.



This polish is a part of Literary Lacquers 2014 Community Collection, which is a collection of polishes inspired by ladies in the blogging community.

Always Winter Never Christmas was the brainchild of my friend Kirby at The Mercurial Magpie. It is an icy blue holo, inspired by "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe." In the book the White Witch casts a spell on Narnia that makes it "Always winter but never Christmas."

The polish itself is a light blue polish with linear holo and larger microglitter holographic pieces. It is on the sheerer side, so it took three coats to get to this opacity.



As soon as I saw this polish I just knew I wanted to add snowflakes to it because it is such a gorgeous winter-esque polish. We don't get snow where I live, so I have to appreciate it on my nails as much as I can in winter.



The thing I loved about this polish is that it really is perfect for winter. And now just the holiday season, I think this polish will be good year-round, but especially in the early part of next year during the dreary winter weather!

To stamp the snowflakes I broke out my Bundle Monster BM-H02 and stamped with white polish.



I was so excited to finally get my polishes in the mail I literally put this on the day I got the polish. I was waiting such a long time for this polish, but the wait and the rigamarole I went through with the USPS was totally worth it!

What do you think of my manicure? Will you be wearing snowflakes after the holiday season!?

I'll leave you with a photo of me and my husband. I am typing this to you as I am celebrating an early Christmas with my in laws in Grass Valley, CA. We have on our Holiday Sweaters of course (and click on that link for a ridiculous video of my hockey team rapping about holiday sweaters that is so bad it is good!).

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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