ACNC Day 6: WHITE

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Day 6 of the Advent Calendar Nail Challenge was WHITE. I do have the perfect white polish in my shop so yet again we have shameless self promotion from me. Aren't you excited? I know I am!

I started off this mani with 2 coats of OPI's My Boyfriend Scales Walls. This polish is sooooo pretty. In the bottle I swear it looks gray but on the nail it's a beautiful bright white. I'm going to have to buy more of it, I keep using it for all of my white based manis. On my thumb and ring finger I put 2 coats of Won't You Guide My Sleigh Tonight by Tara's Nail Art aka Me! It's a dusty white color which MBSW goes perfect with if I do say so myself. There are white and red glitters in the polish as well. This was the first polish I made for my Christmas collection. I'm quite pleased with it. I finished the entire mani off with 2 coats of Essie's Matte About You. MYSW is just dreamy as a matte polish. 

If you would like to purchase Won't You Guide My Sleigh Tonight or any of my other polish please visit my Etsy at this link <click me>.

ACNC Day 5: BLUE

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Day 5 for the Advent Calendar Nail Challenge was BLUE. I have recently released my Christmas Collection on Etsy. One of the polishes I made was I'm Mr White Christmas inspired by the Year Without Santa Claus. It's a glitter polish with blue and white matte glitter with some small halo glitter. There's almost some medium sized blue, purple, and silver hex glitter. Basically it's a blue glitter bomb. I couldn't resist showing it off for Blue Day.

Above we have 2 coats on my index, middle, and pinky. There is one coat over Orly's Sweet Peacock (2 coats). Sweet Peacock is a fantastic blue foil polish. I bought the bird collection from Sally's Beauty forever ago and when I didn't like Fowl Play I decided to not use any of the collection. Stupid I know, but I was badly burned by that flaky polish. I regret it now obviously! I've got to try stamping with is soon, I'm just so curious. 

If you would like to purchase I'm Mr White Christmas or any of my other polish please visit my Etsy at this link <click me>. And yes I took a picture in my kitchen, don't judge me! It was late and the kitchen has the best lighting. :D

ACNC Day 4: SILVER

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Day 4 for the Advent Calendar Nail Challenge was SILVER. I painted my nails with a base of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Wined Up. Then using Sinful Colors Silver Mercedes. I did a stamp design. Seriously Silver Mercedes is probably the best stamp polish I've used. I don't actually own polish made specifically for stamping.

This is probably one of my favorite stamps. I use it often with lighter colors for a subtle stamp. This is Bundle Monster Plate BM19 from their 2010 line of stamping plates. As you can see the plate is a little small for my thumbs but worked on all the other nails. 

ACNC Day 3: GREEN

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I know I'm like super behind on posting. I'm going to make sure to get all these out today. So if you have me on an alert of some sort I do apologize ahead of time. :D

Anyway. On the 3rd the challenge was to do GREEN nails. I was going to do trees or wreths but pine is coming up so I didn't. Instead I pulled out one of my VHTF polishes. China Glaze's L8R G8R. I used 3 coats on all of my nails. And then I used another HTF polish, Sinful Colors' Green Ocean.

Look at that shiny halo goodness. I like that you could still see the halo on the ring finger as well. I also found it interesting how the base turned a yellow-green shade with Green Ocean on top. 

ACNC Day 2: GOLD

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Today is day 2 and the color is GOLD! I started off with 3 coats of Wet N Wild in Hannah Pinktana. It is a gorgeous pink with a scattered halo. 

It is on the sheer side but has a wonderful build up. There is a lot of glitter so it dries somewhat grainy.

I then added an accent nail of Milani One Coat Glitter in Gold Glitz on my ring finger. I added a coat of Tara's Nail Polish in I Ain't Saying She's A Gold Digger. 

And lastly topped it all off with Essie's Matte About You.

This mani is so pretty. And its perfectly delicate for the office and glitzy enough for the night. I'm so happy with how this turned out.

ACNC Day 1: RED

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It's December 1st so that means it's Day One of the Advent Calendar Nail Challenge. Today's challenge is RED. I've recently become obsessed with Chevron print so I couldn't resist.

On my thumb, index, and pinky finger we have Milani One Coat Glitter in Red Sparkle. On my middle and ring finger we have Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Petal Pusher. I drew the chevron print on with Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen in red. Then I finished the look with Essie in Matte About You. 

I'm completely pleased with these. They are wonderfully sparkly and pretty. Reminds me of twinkles on a tree so it totally works with Christmas. I hope you all enjoyed them. And if you participated leave a comment and show me your work!

Advent Calendar Nail Challenge

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Happy Hands Nail Polish recently started an Advent Calendar Nail Challenge. This will last from now until Christmas Eve. I'm super excited and hope that I'll be able to do this one. I rarely keep up with these daily challenges, but one of my New Years Resolutions is going to be to work on my blog more. So here's my first test before the new year!

Wish me luck!