Rudolf the Red-Nosed fingernail

To keep with the holiday theme I painted my nails like little tiny reindeer.
I worried painting so many layers and such thick dots, thinking they might never dry. Luckily, it dried just fine.

I didn’t do a lot of planning, but I think one of the nail tutorial videos the boy showed me last week included some sort of Rudolf design. In my design, every finger is a Rudolf. Sometimes I pretend one finger is the real Rudolf and the others are just clones, imposters. It’s up to me to figure out which one is real.

I started by painting my nails white for a snowy background. Then I made a brown curve over each nail.

Next I used a rounded toothpick to draw on some little antlers. The first few heads got ears, too, but I stopped after deciding they didn’t add to the look. Rudolf doesn’t need to hear anyway.

I blobbed on a little red nose and little back eyes. One of the Rudolfs ended up with squinty eyes. He kind looks like he’s winking at me now. Maybe he’s the real Rudolf.

I can also have fun making the Rudolfs kiss. Those thumb Rudolfs really get around.
Merry Christmas everyone!

Candy Can’t Nails

To get into the holiday mood, I decided to painty nails with little thin stripes to look like candy canes. The boy showed me a bunch of nail tutorial videos so it looked pretty easy. He even cut and sanded me a special toothpick so I had a nice striping tool.

Maybe it was becuase my hands don’t paint so precice, maybe it was becuase I tried to paint them in bed, but they so did not work. Every line came out thick and wiggly and gloppy.
But not all is lost! I decided just to make thick stripes! They came out perfect.

But then a weird thing happened. See, I died my hair purple recently and the purple dye has been bleeding over onto everything. It stained the white polish on my nails a light purple. I could wipe it off with rubbing alcohol, but by the end of the day or the next morning, the purple would be back. Who knew I touched my hair so often? Sadly, the alcohol only worked for a couple of days. I assume at some point all the topcoat on the nails had been wiped off making the nails hard to brush clean. I ended up having to repaint the nails before they really needed it. They just didn’t look Christmasy any more with the purple overlay.

Like, It’s like, my party. And, like, I’ll cry if I want to

I wanted to do something festive for the holidays, so I decided to layer my tiny Sally Girl confetti over black. It turned out great!

I never layered this confetti over such a contrasting color before, so I never noticed that the pieces were mainly teal and hot pink. It took me right back to 5th grade when I was obsessed with teal, hot pink, and black. They were THE colors of the year. I was going through a Punky Brewster phase, so I layered skinny belts and hair ties and bandanas all over my clothes, all in these three colors. Yup. I was a true fashionista back then. In my head.

The photo above is just one coat. I ended up doing three coats to get the effect I wanted.
Ever since, between falling into 5th grade nostalgia, I keep looking at my nails and thinking, “It’s a party!” Which then gets that 50s so ng stuck in my head, “It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to….”

Here is the base black before the confetti was added.

Dreaming of snowflakes

While it may be snowing in a lot in the country, it sure isn’t here. At least I can make it wintery on my nails!
I did a black base and then stamped white snowflakes on top. Then I made the accent nail white with a cute penquin stamped in black on top. The penquin is adorable he has a scarf on!