Christmas Nails Day 5: Rudolph Nails!

Its day 5 of my nail series!
This is the last character type tutorial and the last one which will be up tomorrow is still very festive but more for being fancy than fun.

So Rudolph nails are perhaps the easiest in this series its just dot,dot,dot done.

Lets go!

Start with a brown nail

Using the black nail pen put two fairly large dots in the top third of the nail to make eyes

Next, using your red nail pen to do a big red nose in the middle of the nail

Now, you can leave it there if you like. He totally looks done already but I like to use the teeniest bit of white nail polish and dot it on the eyes (the same as the penguin tutorial)

And you're done!

So cute, so simple!

If you give any of my nail ideas a try please let me know!

See you soon,

Chloe

Christmas Nails Day 4: Penguins!

Todays festive nail tutorial is penguins!
This is a pretty easy one though I will say getting the "m" right proved more than a little challenging to me as I dont have a steady hand at all.

Lets get started!

Start with a full white nail.

Using the black nail art pen draw an "m" across the top third of the nail and fill the top third in.

Like I said - not so much with the steady hand on this bit!

Using the same black pen do a dot either side of the point for eyes

Then using the teeniest white polish dot a bit in the black to make eyes

For this last bit you can either use an orange polish if you have it or a gold nail pen.
Draw a little triangle as a beak.

All done!
Once its all dry put on a clear coat just to seal it all in nicely.

How are you enjoying the nail series?

See you soon,

Chloe

Christmas Nails Part 3: Candy Cane

Its day 3 in my Christmas Nails series and today Im going to show you how to do candy cane nails!

So start of with a pretty red nail.

For the stripes there are 2 different ways you can do it:
1)
Once your nails are dry, you can cut some tape into little stripes, put them on your nails and paint over with white polish.
Once the white is dry, take off the tape and you will be left with perfect straight candy cane stripes.

2)
Taking your nail art brush, start by doing a line through the middle of your nail from corner to corner.

Use this as your central stripe and do one more either side.

When dry, paint over with clear nail polish.

Done!

Now you have pretty candy cane nails. This would look cute on all ten digits or as accent nails.

Have you tried this?

See you tomorrow for day 4!

Chloe

Christmas Nails 2: Fairy Lights

Welcome back!

Here is the first nail tutorial in my Christmas Nails series - fairy lights!

Lets get started!

Start with a plain, white nail:

Then, using the black nail pen draw the wire for the lights, from one corner of the nail to the other.

I put a little twist in mine just to make it something different but you don't have to.

Once this is done you can then pick whichever pen colour you want to dot on the lights. The technique is to dot the light and then use the pen to drag the polish to a point.
When dry, just paint a clear coat over the top to seal it in.
You're done!

It's one of the more simple nail looks but its pretty different and I get lots of compliments on it.

Did you try this look?

See you soon,

Chloe

Christmas Nails pt 1

Welcome to part one of my Christmas Nails series!

I love making anything festive and the top of my list is always nails. Sometimes Ill be tip tapping away on the keyboard at work, look down and remember how festive they are and it makes me happy all over again.

Here are the looks Im going through this series:

We have fairy light, candy canes, penguins, Rudolph and a snowflake.

To start off I thought I would detail what you will need.
You dont need any special nail tools for any of these looks though if you have the dotting tools you could use them for the circle work.

The base colours you will need are:
White
Red
Brown
Blue

I didnt go for any specific brand, just ones I plucked from my collection but they did the trick!

You will also need these:

 These are the nail art pens from good old Primark. They are £2 for two which is a total bargain!
One end has these little gems in, the colour in the middle is the nail polish. Now, at the other end You have these little pens that looks like this:

You just (gently) squeeze the nail polish tube and it comes out of the pen, making it much easier to do those festive designs!
But then, if you put the cap back on and unscrew that side you get the nail striper. An extra long nail brush that you can use to make straight(er) lines.

So now we have the kit out of the way, check back Wednesday to find details on how to do the first design!

See you soon,

Chloe

Oh, Christmas Tree

Two weeks ago we went to get our Christmas tree. We were both really excited to go to the place round the corner from our house and pick the perfect tree.
When we got there a guy asked us what we wanted and picked a tree "like this?" he said. "No, I want that exact tree" I said. Much to the Boy and the employees shock. I feel it normally takes longer than just looking at one tree but this one was perfect!
We took it home & I dressed it immediatley while the boy made a yummy dinner.
Here it is in all its glory!

We've been living together over 2 years now and we started off with pretty but cheap tree decorations with the idea of buying some extra lovely ones each year to build up a collection.

 The cute chubby bird was last years purchase along with a wooden heart and little tree.
Some of them are handmade by me, like the little star in the last picture,
This year I found a little bag of very cute vintage tree decorations at the charity shop for £2 and fell in love with them immediatley. We have 2 trains, one wooden one shiny, a stocking with presents and my personal favourite, the little nutcracker/soldier. Hes just lovely.

We've been spending nights watching movies in the glow of our beautiful tree, drinking hot chocolates and feeling very festive!

Do you have any festive traditions or favourite decorations?

See you soon,

Chloe

Puppy

So around Christmas boyfriends sisters dog had puppies. The boyfriend of course fell in love with him and January 1st we brought him home:

Hes so lovely and very handsome (the pup not the boyfriend though hes pretty nice too!) but also very hyperactive and loves to bite things! Mostly my shoes but I figure thats a compliment that he chooses mine over the boyfriends?
I already had a dog myself and we were a bit worried about how he would react to a new dog in the house but he loves the puppy! They play all the time and hes extra gentle because the puppy is so tiny!

Ive been trying to thing of chew toys to make to keep the pup occupied... any ideas?

In the mean time he'll have to make do with my shoes.

xXx