a different take on Christmas trees

I wanted to do a Christmas tree, but not the traditional green. One of the first blog posts I did was last Christmas season, and it was a white tree inspired thing. Thought I'd revisit that. Forgive the dry cuticles, it's winter time people! Which means cold, and DRY.

Winter Wonderland

Normally when I get an idea for a mani, I test it out sometimes several times on a color wheel. I am unfortunately out of color wheels! Which is not acceptable, lol. I wanted to do a mani that was more about winter than the holidays, but I ended up putting little ornaments on the trees, lol. And in doing so realized I really need to work on my snow people, lol.

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A break from holiday nails.

I decided I didn't want to do another holiday mani, so I hunted around on youtube for a tutorial for something that I would like, but wouldn't necessarily do, and I found THIS. Here's my version, I tried to stay close to the colors she used.

Ornaments

Been up since about 7:30 last night with off and on head pain. Finally got down to a dull roar, and I was going to take a nap. However, it's too late in the afternoon. So, in order to keep myself awake, I decided to change my nails from lights to ornaments.  Pretty happy with the results. :)

Christmas Lights

15 more days til Christmas! And I haven't done ANY shopping! AHHH! But I'll address that soon enough :) I wanted Christmas lights on my nails. After 6 efforts on a nail wheel, I decided I was trying too hard. Scrapped all the previous ideas and sort of just did it. Here it is.

Earlier this evening I also did my 5 year old's nails. She asked for pictures as well....

Christmas Candy....attempt

I'm not a fan of peppermint, or really any kind of mint for that matter. However every Christmas there are candy canes, and those little swirly mints all over the place. I attempted to do that on my nails. Here's what happened..

Jem is truly outragious, truly truly truly outragious.

I ordered some water decals with Jem on them! I'm not 100% happy with the result, but I'm pretty new to the world of water decals. :) Here's what happened...