06 December 2012

Frosty, Glittery Snowflakes!

Aloha!

Jumping right into today's post. I promised wintery snowflakey designs, and I am a lady of my word. Wasn't hard to do anyway--I LOVE snowflakes! Plus, I've joined the Polish Days massive nail-blog-collaboration that spans the interwebs, and the first event I get to participate in is Bling! I think this fits the theme:

SO PRETTY! And heyyyyy, they kinda match the blog. Winning!

These have done more for getting me into the winter/Christmas spirit than anything else: the decorations everywhere, the Christmas music, even my Christmas-fanatic of a best friend. Snowflakes are just so pretty and delicate! I have snowflake necklaces, earrings, and all sorts of ornaments and decorations. So as soon as I saw plate BM-323 from the newest Bundle Monster plate set, and the snowflake full-nail image, I COULD HARDLY WAIT to use it.

For their grand backdrop, I applied two coats of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear #37 Blue It. I then used two Essie LuxEffects glitter polishes, Stroke of Brilliance (a dusty light blue) and Set in Stones (bright silver) to create a gradient glittery tip. This was really pretty alone--I think it looks frosty!--and I wore it this way for a day first:

Mmm, rich and shiny.

Outside in sun/natural light. You can see the sort of hidden glow of Blue It as well as the difference in the glitter colours--this showed up way better in natural light. Isn't this just amazingly beautiful?

I then stamped the snowflakes from the aforementioned plate BM-323 and Konad white stamping polish, then topped them off with a nice layer of Seche Vite to protect them, and make it all nice and shiny:

Holy funky skin tone, Batman O_O ignoring my jaundicy fingers, the polish looked this way in lower/indirect lighting.

Annnnd once more with flash, for extra shiny.

I think these capture the 'icy cold winter night' feeling so well. Do you love snowflakes as much as I do? Any other wintery/Christmas designs you'd like to see? Let me know in the comments! xoxo

(Also, click below to see the other collaborators' entries!)

Polish Days Bling participants


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