2012 Christmas Nails!

Hi lovelies,

As promised, here are the nails I ended up wearing for Christmas! I was still recovering from surgery and feeling a bit under the weather, so I decided to brighten things up and get in the spirit by applying some sparkly, Christmas themed polish!

A couple of months ago, I discovered the wonderful world of indie polishes available on Etsy, and fell in love with the many gorgeous, home-made glitter polishes available! One of the stores I just had to buy from was called Pretty & Polished, and I fell in love with some of the polishes from her 2012 Christmas collection. I ended up purchasing a few mini bottles (which are perfect for when you are short of storage space)! I didn't have time to try them as I fell sick just after receiving them, but managed to pack a couple of the mini polishes in my suitcase to try for Christmas!

I did this look by overlaying Love Always, Candy Cain from Pretty & Polished over my favourite scarlet polish, Karina from Zoya. Love Always, Candy Cain is a gorgeous polish containing lots of chunky red and white glitter (in the shape of hearts and hexes), mixed in with red and white microglitter particles, all suspended in a colourless base. As a result, it works best when layered over contrasting colours. I can just imagine how gorgeous it would be when applied over black (to let the white and red really pop).

Love Always, Candy Cain by Pretty & Polished.

Close up of the bottle.

I did have to fish around a little to get a few of the larger chunky glitter bits placed on the nail, but overall, it applied very easily and laid quite flat on the nail bed, although there are a few places where part of the chunky glitter does stick up a little (as you might be able to observe from the photographs).

This manicure consisted of two layers of Love Always, Candy Cain, applied over two layers of Karina, and I used my standard Poshe topcoat. To allow for easier removal, I applied this over my Essence peel off base coat (PVA basecoat).

In natural daylight.

In natural daylight.

In natural daylight.

In natural daylight.

In direct sunlight.

In natural daylight.

Isn't this just the most gorgeous glitter polish, perfect for Christmas? It really brightened my spirits and I received lots of compliments while wearing this!

In case you're wondering about removal, it was super easy with the peel off basecoat! All I had to do was grab an orange stick and gently prise it away from my nail, and I ended up with this!

Do check out Chels Pretty & Polished Etsy store page by clicking here, and her online store by clicking here, but I warn you, her polishes are so gorgeous that you just might find yourself 'accidentally' purchasing eight bottles, as I did! Her mini bottles retail for about $5, while her large bottles retail for about $9. I'm eyeing some of her colour changing polishes for my next order!

What do you think of this polish, lovelies? Do you love a good glitter topcoat as much as I do?

Much love,
MM.
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