12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Round Up Post

I cant believe the 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge has come to an end. I decided to do a round up post where you can see all 12 days in one place and to also talk about some highlights from the challenge.

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I had so much fun doing this challenge and did so many things that I have either never done or have wanted to do for a while. Some of my favorites are the Minion Santa and Elves, the red and green dry marble, and Rudolph. 

Another thing I accomplished with this challenge is that I knocked out so many untried polishes. I've been wanting to try every polish that I own but what girl has enough fingers. 

Highlights:

These are just some of the things I have come across during this challenge.

• First of all I want to give a huge Thank You to Jessica from Be Happy and Buy Polish. This girl is amazing! Not only does she have time to host this challenge but she also promotes the hell out of everyone participating, comments on everyone's nail art, keeps up with other posts on her own page on top of running the Challenge Your Nail Art Facebook group.
• I also want to give a huge Thank You to everyone who has commented, liked and even just looked at my nail art during this challenge. You all have made me smile every day.
• I even had a few fangirl moments during this challenge. I was excited to find out that Be Happy and Buy Polish was the host of this challenge. And then Cheyenne who is @cdbnails143 on Instagram liked and commented on my minion blog post. I almost peed my pants. I have followed her for quite some time now on Instagram and she is amazing. Also Kacey who is A Polished Bookworm has commented a few times and I love her. She makes nubbins look amazing!  Of course there have been loads more that I wish to thank for the comments and likes but I just cant cover them all. So just know that this THANK YOU goes to everyone from the Challenge Your Nail Art Facebook Group.

Again this challenge has been super fun to do and complete. I love the Challenge Your Nail Art Group and can wait to see whats next. Thank you again to everyone!

You can find all of my nail art from the 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge  by clicking here.

I hope you have all enjoyed the 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge. Which was your favorite?

12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 12 | Freestyle!

Today's theme for the Challenge Your Nail Art 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge is freestyle. I have thought about this from the beginning. What is one to do when given a freestyle challenge. So many possibilities right? Well I decided to go with 2 different things for this theme. Check it out.

Items Used:

China Glaze - White on White

Red, White, Black, Light Brown, and Dark Brown Acrylic Paint

NYC - Broadway Burgundy Frost

Salon Perfect - One Love

LA Colors Rapid Dry

Striping Brush

Detail Brush

I think these are by far my favorite of the whole challenge. Isn't Rudolph adorable? Well that's the end of the 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge. I'll be back in a couple days with a round up post. 

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12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 11 | Presents

Day 11 already. Are you all still with me? Today's theme for the Challenge Your Nail Art 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge is Presents. Everyone looks forward to opening their presents on Christmas morning. Well today I have presents on my nails to share with you all. Hope you enjoy!

Items Used:

Milani 3D - Digital

Milani - Gold Glitz

Orly - Sparkling Garbage

Milani 3D - HD

White Acrylic Paint

Striping Brush

Detail Brush

LA Colors Rapid Dry

Sparkling Garbage has been in my untrieds for a while and it was the perfect match up to go along with all the other untrieds in this mani.. 3 untrieds knocked out in one mani, not to bad.

Check out what the last day brings...

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12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 10 | Ugly Christmas Sweater

I have been excited about today's theme of the Challenge Your Nail Art 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge since all the themes were posted. I am a huge fan of PANC (Polish Addict Nail Color) nail polishes and I've been waiting for a reason to use Ugly Christmas Sweater. What better time then now.

My camera made some of the colors a little brighter then they were.

Items Used: 

Pure Ice - Kiss Me Here

PANC - Ugly Christmas Sweater

White, Black, Green, Red, Turquoise, Pink, and Lime Green Acrylic Paint

Wet N Wild Matte Top Coat

I tried to incorporate as many colors into the actual nail art that I could find in the glitter. The lime green acrylic paint actually appears to be yellow in the pictures. I will be trying Ugly Christmas Sweater nail art again next year because I love how these turned out and cant wait to try them when my art has improved.

Here's what is next!

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12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 9 | Glitter

Who doesn't love glitter? That is today's theme for day 9 of the Challenge Your Nail Art 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge. So many possibilities. I racked my brain on what to do for this theme. I went rather simple. I was packing up my nail polish to move back home (I've been staying with my mom for a bit) and I came across some green glitter polishes just laying there in true ombre fashion. So why not go with a green glitter ombre for the glitter theme.

Items Used:

Nabi - Greenland

Nabi - Cute Punky

Sinful Colors - Call You Later

Nabi - Green Glitter

LA Colors Rapid Dry

It looked more ombre when they were laid out in front of me. Also while working on these I put together a little picture tutorial for full coverage glitter and glitter removal that will be up sometime in January after this challenge is over.

Coming up next....

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12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 8 | Christmas Decorations

We are over half way through the Challenge Your Nail Art 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge. Today's theme is Christmas Decorations. The first thing that came to mind was Ornaments. When I think of decorating for Christmas I immediately think of decorating the Christmas tree with beautiful Ornaments. 

Items Used:

Nabi - Gray

Nabi - Green Glitter

Nabi - Yellotte (Not sure if this is misspelled on my bottle)

Salon Perfect - He's With Me

Sinful Colors - All About You

Sinful Colors - Silver Screen

Gray, Red, Green, Yellow, Black and White Acrylic Paint

Wet N Wild Matte Top Coat

I am super in love with how these turned out. Some of you may have noticed by now that I have used a ton of Nabi polishes during this challenge. I've been trying to get through some of my untried polishes while doing this challenge and so far I have gotten through quite a bit.

I hope everyone has enjoyed this challenge so far. Here's what is coming up!

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12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 7 | Red and Green

The first thing that came to mind when I saw the theme for day 7 of the Challenge Your Nail Art 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge was candy canes. Up until I actually did them I saw candy cane swirls. I was originally going to do a water marble but the only bottle of water I have at the moment is way to cold to work. So instead I went with a dry marble and couldn't be happier. I will be dry marbling a lot from now on.

Forgive the upside down watermark. I forgot to flip the picture before adding it.

  Items Used:

China Glaze - White on White

Pure Ice - Siren

Pure Ice - Free Spirit

LA Colors Rapid Dry

Toothpick

I absolutely love how these turned out. They are so christmas-y. I am now a new fan of dry marble. I loved them so much that I wanted to get a third picture of them. 

Whats coming up next?

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12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 6 | 12 Days of Christmas Song

Today's theme for the Challenge Your Nail Art's 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge is any line from the 12 Days of Christmas Song. I struggled with this one from the beginning on what to do. Then when I decided, It didn't go as planned. I choose to go with "7 Swans a Swimming."  My initial idea was to hand paint 7 swans which actually would have ended up as more of a valentines designs. Wrong month!!!! So as I was going through my stamping plates I found a cute little swan stamp. Let me just say that stamping hates me. When I got my first set of stamping plates my boyfriend actually stamped better than I did. Shhhh! Don't tell him I told you that. Anyways, I'm not at all happy with how these turned out but I wanted to share them anyways. Hope you like them more than I do.

Items Used:

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure - Wedding Glitters

China Glaze - White on White

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails - Cold as Ice

Gals Stamping Plate GA3 from the Princess Set

LA Colors Rapid Dry

The only thing I love about these? I actually stamped!!!! I was excited that they actually looked the way the plate looked. That's never happened before. Small steps I guess.

Still to come....

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12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 5 | Ice Blue and White

Today is day 5 of the Challenge Your Nail Art 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge. The theme is Ice Blue and White colors. I knew from day 1 what I wanted to do for this theme. I choose to go with icicles on an icy blue background. So here they are.

Items Used:

Nabi - Sky Blue

Nabi - Abysis 

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails - Frozen Solid

White Acrylic Paint

China Glaze - Fairy Dust

LA Colors Rapid Dry

I love how these turned out. It looks exactly how it did when I pictured it in my head. 

Check out whats coming up!

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12 Days Of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 4 | Santa and Elves | 100th Post

Yippeeeeee! Did you read the title? Did you read it all the way through? Yup you read right! Its my 100th blog post. I cant believe it either. I am a horrible writer so I never imagined I would make it to 10 post let alone 100 posts. Anyways, the reason you are here.

It is day 4 of the Challenge Your Nail Art groups 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge. Today's theme is Santa and/or Elves. Of course I went all out and did them both. My Aunt posted a Santa minion nail art tutorial to me on Facebook a few days ago and I decided that was what I would do. So everyone say thanks to my Aunt for these. Oh and I want to mention that I had a snag on my index finger and forgot before I washed my hair and it snapped so I had to cut them down some.

Items Used:

Pure Ice - Vintage Glam

LA Colors - Live

Green, Red, Black, and White Acrylic Paints

LA Colors Rapid Dry

Oh how I love these little guys. I was sad to take them off. Well I hope you enjoyed my Santa and Elf minions along with my 100th post. Take a look at whats coming up next.

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12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 3 | Snowmen

Its time for day 3 of the Challenge Your Nail Art Facebook groups 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge. Today's theme is Snow Men. I did a snow man last year and I really love seeing how much I have improved over time at nail art. In case your curious you can find last years snow man Here. Let me know which is your favorite. So here we go.

I went with a purple scarf since that is my favorite color.

Items Used:

Hard Candy - Ice Pop

White, Black, Purple, Brown, and Orange Acrylic Paint

Wet N Wild Matte Top Coat (to smooth out the glitter and to make painting easier)

LA Colors Rapid Dry

 

I really love this guy. Did you notice the "Baby its cold outside" on my index finger? My first time writing anything on my nails. 

I tend to collect what I call Novelty nail polish bottles. Last year at Christmas time I picked up a cute little snow man bottle at Sally's. Now with my novelty polishes, I DO NOT OPEN THEM. For me they are my collector bottles. I've been dying to do something with my little snow man so as an added bonus.........

How cute? Hope you enjoyed today's theme. Check back for more to come!

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12 Days Of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 2 | Christmas Trees

For the second day of the 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge the Challenge Your Nail Art group gives us Christmas Trees. It was hard to decide how I wanted to do this one. I knew I wanted a tree, obviously. But there is all sorts of Christmas trees out there. I decided to go with more of a what I'm going to call, modern Christmas tree. Along with some Christmas lights. Love how these came out.

Items Used:

LA Colors - Live

Red, Yellow, Orange, Green and Black Acrylic Paints

LA Colors - Dizzy (Used for the star on the tree)

LA Colors Rapid Dry

Check out whats coming up next!

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