Christmas Challenge Santa

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!!  Today is the last day of our Christmas no rules challenge.  Santa is the theme!  I have had so much fun doing this with my friends Anca, Lu, Marianne and Jaimie!  There were lots of lovely girls who joined us over on Instagram as well!

Here is my little Santa manicure.

Very simple manicure but I think it turned out cute.  A little bit of smudging but not bad.  I used wet n wild megalast in Rudy-dolph which I found at Walgreen's around Halloween oddly enough.  The white is Sinfuls Snow me white, the black eyes are Zoya Black swan and the flesh color is the same Bellatrix nude I used for my elf manicure.

I want to take a second to thank my girls for doing this with me and Marianne for the original idea and all the hard work she did creating the graphic.  I also want to thank you all for playing along or just showing some Christmas spirit liking and commenting over on Instagram!  Merry Christmas and as always Happy polishing!!  xoxo Jaime

Mani Monday Red and Green Sincerely Polish

Happy Mani Monday!  I can not believe we only have one more Mani Monday after this!  The year has flown by!  This week Lindsay had themed red and green for Christmas of course!  I have done so many red and green Manis I am almost tired of them to be honest. Not Christmas manis but just that color scheme....but it is the perfect color choice!

I have lost a bit of my nail art mojo and took a very easy way out this week.  First let me tell you about Sincerely Polish.  Sincerely Polish is a pretty new Indie company I came across on Instagram owned and operated soley by Karen.  First she is a sweetheart and second her polishes are awesome!  I am loving all Indie companies right now but I prefer to mostly spend my dollars at newer companies.   One I get to buy nail polish and two when I wear the polishes I get to tell people about these smaller companies. win win! I commend larger Indie companies for all their hard work to get there and plan on trying some in the New Year. On my most recent order Karen added in a little red jelly mini called Holly.  Oh no a red for Jaime and her picky ways.  I LOVE this one!!!

I had some major photographing issuies so please excuse that! Now that I have bored you to death on to the pictures.

I am no good at photographing with a mini and the shine caused all kinds of blurring!

 With a matte topcoat!  I think it makes it look like a gummy candy.  So squishy!

 Can you see all the little sparkly goodies hiding in there.

So for this Mani Monday we have a simple mani with green studs...hehehe...I told you I took the easy way out this week!  Happy Mani Monday and if you have read through all this Thanks!!  Happy polishing!  xoxo Jaime

Christmas challange Gift

Today our theme is gift!  I wasn't sure which way I wanted to go with today's challenge but I am totally on a charm kick lately.  So here's what I decided to do! This polish is called Bewitched.  I think its a gorgeous green!  I don't think I wear enough green.  I think its a color that works for me but I don't find myself gravitating to it unless its a mint.  The gold from a art deco stripper polish.  Thanks for coming by and Happy polishing!  xoxo Jaime

Mani Monday Sparkles

 Happy Mani Monday!  Mondays can be so somber and drab but not this Mani Monday.  It is all about the sparkle!! I decided it was time to pull out some of the holiday drug store polishes I had been buying late in the Fall.  One of the shiniest sparkly drug store collections that came out were the Maybelline Color Show Brocades!  Sally Hansen has also released all kinds of new glitters!

I chose Emerald Elegance from this line.  It is a beautiful green which contains green glitter and gold shimmer!  It just shines on the nail.  No matter which way I tilt my fingers there is more sparkle!  I added a gold glitter that is new from Sally Hansen's complete manicure line to my ring finger for a little more sparkle!!  It is called Crown Jewels and is full of gold and holographic glitter.  I am attaching a macro as well even though it is not clear.  I had a really hard time photographing this sparkly manicure!!   Happy Mani Monday and Happy Polishing!  xoxo Jaime

Ring finger

Christmas Challenge Elves

Hello my polish loving friends!  Today is elves day.  I am such a beginner when it comes to freehand painting on my nails.  I do think my little elf is kind of cute though.  I wanted to add a green little collar but I was so afraid I would mess him up so I added buttons instead.  I know easy way out. :)

A little smearing and smudging but not to bad!  The Red is from Rimmel obviously.  It is called Stiletto red and I actually like it on me.  I am still looking for a deeper red that still says red instead of Burgundy.  I think that would be my shade!  I added a coat of Sinful colors Opal glitter to make it a little more magical looking.    My little elf is Stiletto Red with a generic white undie from Broadway nails. The ball on the hat is that same off white.  The face is a nude polish from Bellatrix I picked up at Walgreen's in a perfect pair duo.  The black is out of a sinful colors striper.  Thanks for coming by and Happy Polishing!! xoxo Jaime

Christmas Challenge Holiday movie

Happy Tuesday friends!  Today in the challenge it is Holiday movie day!  Yay!  My husband and I are big holiday movie watchers.  We even watch all the animated movies and old claymation and we have not even been blessed with kids.  I can not pick a favorite at all.  They are all so different and bring a special memory of feeling of magic to the holiday season.  I wish I had not waited until the last minute to do this day because I can think of a few movies I would like to take on as a manicure.  I really enjoy old movies the best.  Things were different then and the kind spirits of people really shine through.  One movie we never go without watching is White Christmas.  It is full of Christmas spirit, caring for others and some love in bloom as well.  Lots of dancing and music as well.  I went with another simple manicure because I wanted to wear some beautiful white nails.  This picture does not do it justice.  There is lots of glare.  I apologize.

The polishes used are all Sinful colors.  I have been neglecting them lately.  I still believe you can created beautiful manicures with inexpensive polishes!  The base I started with is snow me white.  It is a nice white but I am now around half way through the bottle and it is a tad thick now.  I hope I can thin it because it is such a bright white.  I layered silver belle over that.  Silver belle was released with the Sinful colors holiday display this year.  It is the polish pictured.  It has a pearly sheer white finish to it with lots of little silver glitters.  I would like to try this over blue as well.  The accent nail is Heavy metal.  It is a shiny shiny silver that goes on super easy with a foiled finish.  I added a little snowflake glitter after two failed attempts at a freehand snowflake.  I just could not get the strokes small enough to have room to add in detail.  So third time repainting the accent nail I went a new route!

Christmas Challenge Christmas Tree

Today for the Challenge we have Christmas tree!  I think no matter how you celebrate Christmas eveyone includes a beautiful Christmas tree in their decorating for the holiday. We have a big country living room and usually put up a big beautiful 10 foot tree.  This year I had not been feeling well so we only put up a 6 foot tree.  We are still behind in with some decorating.

I purchased Zoya  Chita recently specifically for this manicure.  I was not sure exactly what I wanted to do but knew I wanted green and texture.  A Christmas tree if nothing but texture.  I feel like my nails are so busy all the time (which I love) but wanted to keep it simple yet still say Christmas tree.  Chita has a lovely gold shimmer to it so I decided to go with that and this is what I came up with.

I did this Friday as a full manicure and will be wearing it until I do my Mani Monday nails Sunday night.  I really really like this and think it is cute.  It completes the challenge while being a nice neutral manicure I think.  The beige background under the tree is Espionage from Sinful colors and all the gold decorations for the tree are from a stud wheel I got at Five Below.  What do you think of my Mani?  Thank you for visiting and Happy Polishing!!

Christmas Challenge Christmas Lights

Today is the third theme on our little Christmas no rules challenge list.  Christmas lights are always fun!  I have already seen many strand of lights manicures going on and they are adorable!  I wanted to try to make mine a little different and go with nontraditional colors again and do one big Christmas bulb but maybe it looks like an ornament instead???

The base is White on from Sally Hansen and I went with a new to my collection Funky Fingers in Lady Charlotte which was supposed to be sort of twinkling lights.  The bulb is Sinful Shine in slick which, looks very purple in the bottle but this sponged in bulb over  white is looking very blue or blurple. The gold on the bulb is Funky Fingers Golden Grace. I added a matte topcoat over the ring finger which made it kinda frosty.  Even though this was not where I was going exactly I am really happy with how it turned out.  Lots of girls are doing this challenge on Instagram so be sure to search the tag #xmasnorules to see some more cute manicures! Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!!

Links to the other girls who are hosting this Challenge

Marianne
Anca
Jaimie
Lu