Last two holiday manicures.

I'm so behind on blogging! Lots going on here. We are moving to a new house in the next couple weeks so I won't be doing manicures with all the packing! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and happy new year!

Jingle bells, jingle bells...

For a Christmas party last weekend, I wanted to do another Christmas inspired manicure. I hadn't used the bells on one of my Monster plates, so I decided gold bells with red ribbons would be perfect for the night!

Happy Holly-days!

I wanted to use some more Christmas stamps from my Konad and I loved the holly berries. In my head, I saw a light green base with dark green holly and red berries so that's what I tried. The green on green didn't show up well and the berries looked black. Without removing that, I painted a white base so I could try a light green holly and that turned out so much better. Even the berries looked healthier!

Rainbows and butterflies...

Minus the butterflies. I'll paint those later!


I decided to do a rainbow manicure after my last striping one. I liked the different colors and I figured I could add a couple more and just make it as close to a rainbow as I could get with only five colors.

I went with the colors shown - red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. I could have gotten a purple in there, too, but I like the different nails changing into the rainbow so I didn't have anywhere to add the purple.

This manicure turned out cute. I had a hard time getting equal sections of colors on my thumb, as you can see, but it didn't really ruin the rainbow effect for me. I still liked it!

Green on green half moon.

I had seen several posts and pictures of the half moons and I really liked the look so I decided to try it out. I had two new green polishes I hadn't used yet so I grabbed those to get started.

I used two coats of Sinful Colors Happy Ending followed by a coat of Seche Vite to get started.


After that dried, I used the circle reinforcers to make the half moon at the base of my nails and then painted Orly Meet Me Under the Mistletoe on top of that.

I waited a few minutes before pulling off the circle and topping with another coat of Seche Vite.

I loved this mani! I was digging the color combo a lot. The Mistletoe has a great glittery component to it that really complemented the lighter green. And I'm definitely a fan of the half moon. I thought the overall look would be great for St. Patrick's Day so I will probably be repeating this one.