Tuesday 23 December 2014

Christmas Sweater Sparkles


Hiii!!

As you will probably know already, it's almost Christmas! :D (Emily will be so excited lol!)

I decided it was finally time to create a Christmas design. I'm not really a person to make seasonal appropriate nail art - I just do designs when I think of them. So I don't feel the need to create a whole bunch of Christmassy designs just because it's that time of the year.

But: I was inspired by a super cute design which had a few deer and did some gold stripes around it, like in a Christmas sweater pattern - unfortunately I saw it in a picture on the Born Pretty Store website and I don't know who created the design originally. You can see the picture here.

 Anyway, I decided to take that element of the design, since I had just bought some mega cute deer from She Sells Sea Shells!


For this design, I used OPI's Big Apple Red, Catrice Goldbusters, Park Avenue Golden Tears and Claire's Honeycomb. 

Obviously I used the deer, and some golden hearts I got from my best friend - she gave me an entire jar of hearts in different colours because she thought it would be great for some nail art! Sweet huh :) And I also used white acrilyc paint.

I did three coats of Big Apple Red and topped it with my Fast Drying Top Coat from Only You. Then I placed the deer on it. And then I noticed something very odd: the red polish had become darker!! 

You might have noticed already a big difference in colour between the red on my nails and the red in the OPI bottle. I have no idea how it happened, and it hasn't happened with other polishes I own. Except for another OPI, Amazing California Love, which is a bright pink but also gets some darker stripes. Did anyone experience this with OPI before, of is it possibly a combination of my top coat + red OPI polish?

Anyhow, it still looks good darker ;) I painted three coats of gold on my thumb and ring finger, and then sponged on the gold glitters! 

I finished the design by adding three big hearts to my middle finger and sealing them in with generous amounts of top coat since they're quite big. I think they look lovely!


What do you think of this Christmassy design? It will probably be my only one, except for some red polished I'll be wearing in the coming week :) (I'm planning to wear Essie's Toggle To The Top for Christmas Day)

Thanks for reading!


30 comments:

  1. Lovely design and great golden nail polish :)

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    1. Thanks! I'm glad you like those, I love the golden glitters!

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  2. Great nail art Robin. Love all the nails :-D My favourite is the pinkie - simply stunning :-D

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  3. These look so cute and festive! Red and gold is such a classic combination, and the little deer look great!

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    1. They are really cute, right :) Thanks Lucy!

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  4. These are so cool! I love the little deer bits, so cute!

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    1. Thank you!! I love them too :) At first I was unsure of how to use them since they are so small, but they work great like this!

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  5. Perfect for Christmas I love everything about this mani (: the little hearts are so cute :D

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    1. Thank you!! I love the little hearts, they remind me of my best friend :)

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  6. Gorgeous xmas mani!! Erg mooi Robin. Hele fijne kerstdagen!!

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    1. Dankjewel Miriam! Ik hoop dat jij ook leuke dagen achter de rug hebt! :)

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  7. Very Christmassy, I love the deers! They look really cute! Merry belated Christmas to you!

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    1. Thanks Franzi!! I love the deers too :) Hehe, merry belated Christmas to you too! Or perhaps: a happy New Year already! :D

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  8. Sorry for my late commenting! I hope you had a really lovely Christmas, Robin! I absolutely love this manicure - how cute are those reindeer! Everything just looks so beautiful together! xx

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    1. Thanks Ithi!! Oh no don't worry, the holidays are such a busy time! :) I had a great Christmas, I hope you did too!

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  9. It looks great! I actually ordered those reindeers decorations off BPS a while ago exactly for this pattern that you recreated! I love it!

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    1. Hehe how funny!! Yeah it's such a cute pattern to make with these little deer :)

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  10. shesellseashells reposted this pic on Instagram and it got 83 likes so far! just so you know! =)

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    1. Oh thank you so much for telling me Franzi!! I posted it on their FB page, how cool that other people like the design as well! :D

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  11. Omg I'm in loveeee!! I wish I had seen this sooner! Damn my lack of time :( ! This is such a warm & cosy manicure which is perfect for Christmas! I want it to be Christmas again so I can recreate this! <3 <3 <3 ! Those deers are so cute & classy & Christmassy! Love it Robin! Hope you had a great Christmas xxx

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    1. Thank you so much Emily!! Haha I can imagine you already looking forward to Christmas 2015 lol ;)

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  12. Oh also, could I put this in the Christmas Gallery? I'd LOVE to feature this one in there!

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    1. YES YOU CAN!! I hadn't even thought about that, butyou can definitely add it! Thank you Emily! :)

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  13. These are perfect for Christmas! It's strange how the opi polish came out a different colour to the bottle - I've never heard/seen that happen before! The Reindeer's are so cute! :)

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    1. Yeah really strange!! I have that with another (old) OPI as well, but it's really really odd... Thanks Jayna, I love the reindeer too :D

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  14. Deep red and gold combo = perfect! Very pretty one dear!

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