NOTD: O Tannenbaum

Hello again, this time of year is always very busy, so it's a miracle to me that I am managing to get a second post out to you all in December! :) I am loving the Christmas atmosphere, but not so much loving this cold weather and it's damaging affect on my cuticles :'( But on to the manicure! I wanted to do at least one "classic" Christmas mani using red and green and found the perfect two colors to use! But I decided to spice it up a little... enjoy!

So I started with Sally Hansen Divine Wine for all of the red nails, and Essie Going Incognito for my ring fingers. Next, I sponged OPI Bring on the Bling on top of the red. I don't practice my freehand painting very often, so I decided to play around with it on my green nails. This color reminded me of a Christmas tree, so I painted on a branch (using Sally Hansen Forbidden Fudge) and some pine needles (using love & beauty Green). 

Overall a pretty simple and festive manicure! :) I will try to post again before Christmas, but if I don't get the chance to, I want to wish all of my fabulous readers a very Happy Holidays and a happy New Year as well. I will definitely be posting again starting January 1st, as it is my New Year's Resolution for 2012 to complete the 31 Day Nail Challenge that has been floating around since October!! I realize that it will only take 31 days, and not really a whole year, but I am usually not very good at sticking to resolutions, so I thought this one would be fun and a lot more attainable for me. Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed today's manicure :)

NOTD: Sophisticated Snowflakes

Woohooo!! I am officially getting into the Christmas spirit right about now! Decorations are going up at my house and Winter Break is just a couple weeks away! :D So this manicure was inspired by the beginning of Winter, and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it! :) [This post is pretty picture heavy, so here we go.]

So I started with NOX Twilight Talon for the base color. Then I sponged on some OPI Swimsuit... Nailed It! and then applied some Sally Hansen Ice Queen on top of that. OPI Swimsuit... Nailed It! is one of my favorite blues of all time! I also love Sally Hansen Ice Queen! It has smaller flecks of silver glitter along with larger hexagonal silver and blue glitter pieces suspended in a clear base. <3 To finish up this mani, I sponged silver snowflakes from the BM14 stamping plate!

Here are the stars of this manicure; OPI Swimsuit... Nailed It! and Sally Hansen Ice Queen

And here are a couple close-ups:

Happy beginning of the Christmas season everyone!! Love you all! <3

NOTD: Tiny Turkeys

So it's been a while since I've had the time and energy to post on my blog!! Don't worry though, my nails haven't been naked this whole time ;) I know I'm a couple days late for Thanksgiving nails, but today is the day my mom's half of the family came over to eat and celebrate together. So in honor of Thanksgiving Round 2, I did a quick and easy french tip manicure using Essie Waltz for the tips, and added little tiny turkeys! :)

For these cute little turkeys, I used Sally Hansen Forbidden Fudge for the body, ULTA Red Carpet Red, Essie Going Incognito, Essie Braziliant and ULTA Sun-Sational for the feathers. I also added some legs and a beak with ULTA Sun-Sational. I had so much fun creating these tiny turkeys, I hope you fond them fun as well! enjoy :)

Here are a couple of close-ups of the turkey:

NOTD: Plum out of Sunshine

So the rain finally took over the sky today where I live, but fortunately I had a new, plum nail color to play with from China Glaze to occupy my rainy day! enjoy :)

I started this rainy day project with China Glaze Urban-Night. Then I taped off the sides to make the middle of my nails white using OPI Alpine Snow. After that dried, I lined up the tape with the white sections and stamped on these flowers from stamping plate BM16 with Sephora Perfectly Plum. Then, to finish it up I added the lighter plum outlines with Wet n' Wild Through the Grape Vine! :)

NOTD: Komen Race for the Cure in San Francisco

This morning, the city of San Francisco held their 21st annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure! :) For those who don't know it is a 5K walk/run for which you get sponsors to donate money toward breast cancer research. This is the second year on a row that I have participated with my best friend Kyle <3 and we plan on making this a yearly tradition for a many many more years! So in the spirit of this amazing day, I did a "manicure for the cure" lol. enjoy!

I started this manicure off with a base coat of ULTA Flamingo, then I water marbled with ULTA Flamingo and ULTA Socialite. I added some white ribbons with a nail art pen, and finished it off with some little clear rhinestones :)

NOTD: Never Forget.

As I'm sure you all know, today is the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the Twin Towers at our World Trade Center in New York. It is incredible to think how drastically this country was changed in just about an hour. We will never forget the thousands of lives that were lost that day, and there aren't enough words to express my gratitude for the police officers, fire fighters, and all of the other heroes that made the ultimate sacrifice to try to protect the civilians of the United States that day and those who continue to serve and protect this country to this day, here and abroad. In memory of 9.11.2001, I have done an anniversary manicure that I hope you all enjoy. God bless America! <3 

I started the thumb with Essie Sweet Talker, then painted the Twin Towers with China Glaze Recycle, and added the date, 9.11 with a black nail art pen.

Then on my index finger, I started with Essie Mesmerized and used a dotting tool to create "stars" with OPI Alpine Snow.

The striped fingers started with ULTA Red Carpet Red, then I used tape to create the white stripes with OPI Alpine Snow.

Never Forget.