Challenge Your Nail Art: Christmas Trees

I had a couple of ideas for today's Challenge Your Nail Art prompt, but I kept coming back to the one that involved flocking powder, because I still had yet to try it out, and the green always reminded me of fuzzy trees :D  So here's the design I came up with!

I used a base of ILNP's "Cherry Luxe" from the brand new Holiday Collection - I just looooooove the flakie goodness of it!!  It's the *perfect* Christmas red!

After the base, I used striping tape to make the tree design, then put clear nail polish down with flocking powder on top.  I have an accent nail where I used white glitter instead of the flocking powder to represent those that have those gorgeous white Christmas trees in their homes :D  All the trees got a holographic glitter star topper ^_^

I'm not too displeased with this mani, though my pinky looks super wonky - I tried pressing my finger into the flocking powder first, and found it clumped like a mofo.  I used a dry brush and dabbed it on the other nails and got a much better effect.  I'm definitely not opposed to playing with flocking powder again in the future!

What do you think of this design?  Have you had any experience with flocking powder?  Let me know in the comments, and be sure to check out the other fantastic designs for this challenge through the inlinkz below!

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Challenge Your Nail Art: Ice Blue/White Colors

Today's Challenge Your Nail Art Theme is "Icy Blue/White Colors."

I had so, so many hopes for this design.  I had a beautiful image in my head, I knew exactly how I could create it, and then...somewhere, I fell short.

I'm so very, very disappointed in this design, but I have learned a few things from my mistakes, and will try to make this design again - only better!  I think the hand is what bothers me the most - reminds me more of tentacles than fingers O_o  The saying, "We are our own worst critics" feels like it is the definition of how I feel about my nail art :P

Short and sweet post today :)  See you soon <3

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Challenge Your Nail Art: Santa and Elves

Gonna be a quick post for you today.  I don't normally post on Sundays because I reserve that day for family only.  I'm making a brief exception today, just long enough to post this up for today's Challenge Your Nail Art theme :)

I almost skipped today's prompt because I knew there wasn't really anything I could do that hasn't already been done.  I decided to go ahead with it anyway, just for funsies :)  I did a design I've seen a lot of this season so far - Santa's hat and elf hats, though I added my own little flair on my ring finger ;)  Have a look:

If you haven't guessed already, my ring finger is a nod to the movie Elf with Will Ferrell.  It is one of my favorite Christmas movies ^_^

I hope you like this design!!  I'll see you soon <3

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