Christmas Nails 2015

Hey peeps, how’s it going? I hope you are having a nice holiday so far. I decided I wanted to start updating this blog again because I truly miss it and I think it will be good for me. I can’t promise everything will be as routine as it used to be, but I will try my very hardest to post as much as I can. I’m making it one of my goals for 2016, so I can’t fail right hahaHA.

Ahem… anyway, if you didn’t notice I have made some improvements to my blog’s layout. I have a new background, different fonts, tab colors, etc. I think it looks quite nice. I also updated my About Me section and my Nail Polish Inventory, if you were curious about any of that.

So, for the reason you are probably reading this, here is my nail design for this Christmas.

I decided to go with something simple yet still festive. I started with my Revlon Base + Top Coat, and then carefully added a red French tip over my nails. It’s actually quite simple to free had French tips; just lay your hand on a table and get a small amount of polish on the brush (you want to make sure it isn't too much that way you can make the French tip the width that you want without any issues), then sweep the brush horizontally over the tip of your nail. While doing this rotate your finger instead of moving the brush to make the line a bit smoother. The red I used is by Estee Lauder in the color “Fallen Angel”. After that dried I added a gold glitter all over my nail using Essie’s “rock at the top” (#962).

I hope you guys have a great Christmas and if you don’t celebrate Christmas I hope you have a great festive season. I have a few more blog posts lined up for the near future, so I hope to see you back. Not all of them are nail related, but I’m thinking that I’ll try to branch out my posts because that’s why I made this new blog anyway. See you soon :)

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