Day 4 of The Digit-al Dozen Does It Again! Today is Festiveness, and I decided to go with a wintery theme.
I used two coats of Zoya London. To me it has a nighttime snow sparkle quality to it. I added snowflakes using QA58 plate that I got from the Born Pretty store. I really like the little snowflakes! I used a big snowflake as my accent nail. I stamped using Konad White.
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Here is the The Digit-al Dozen Does Festiveness Round-Up! We had some new faces here this week and everyone seemed to step up the game with the terrific manis!
This is the final day of The Digit-al Dozen Does Festiveness. But it is also TGIF: Thank Goodness, Indy Indie Friday! And today we have Formerly Frosty by Pop Culture Polish. I bought this polish knowing the exact mani that I wanted to do! And I am so happy how it turned out! This mani is based on a song I learned when I was little called "Once There Was A Snowman".
Once there was a snowman, snowman snowman.
Once there was a snowman, tall, tall, tall.
In the snow he melted, melted, melted.
In the snow he melted, small, small, small.
See, my snowman is melting! :)
Here is Pop Culture Formerly Frosty, as always: (l-r) 4 coats, 3 coats, 2 coats, and 1 coat. This polish is a "beautiful clear coat filled with several sizes of white glitters and accenting orange and black glitters". Some of the smaller glitters are iridescent and so catch the light causing a gorgeous glow and sparkle, just like snow! :)
Here it is in more direct light. Love it! I'm assuming you all get the inspiration here. A melted snowman! Black glitters=eyes and orange bars=nose! As you can see, the black glitter and orange bars didn't like to come out of the bottle so much. But other than that I had no issues with this polish. There are many orange and black glitters but I didn't fish them out because I wanted to show you how it really went on.
Here is Formerly Frosty (one coat) over: (l-r) Essence Lime Up!, Orly Nite Owl, Essence Let's Get Lost, and Essence Break Through.
So for my melting snowman I used Essence Romeo as my base color. I made my snowman out of Milani White On The Spot with Pop Culture Polish Formerly Frosty over top. With hat and eyes out of Finger Paints Black Expressionism. His arms are Finger Paints Sketchy Character. And his nose is Nails Inc Hans Place. Expect for my pinky where the eyes and nose are Formerly Frosty.
Today's mani is one of my favorites I have ever done. This is not my original idea. I copied this mani from Messy Mansion (click link to be sent to stamping plate site which also shows the photo). I first saw this picture on Facebook and my jaw dropped. I then ordered the plate and knew I had to re-create this for this week! There was just something magical in the way she designed the mani and I knew I had to do this stamp justice!
I began with two coats of Flormar U08. Gorgeous duochrome.
Here's a bit more of the duochrome shown.
I then sponged on Layla Softouch 02 Golden Touch and applied China Glaze Techno for stars.
I then stamped using Konad Black and Messy Mansion MM01. I then applied HK Girl Top Coat. I just love how this turned out. I just wish that the star was a bit bigger. I had to stamp the land and then the star because my nail and gold was too short. But I still love it! It's super shiny and just lovely.
Please check out Messy Mansion at her store or Facebook (Facebook link is to her photo of this and what she used). It is such a great plate! I can't wait to create another mani using this image!
I love the Three Wise Men. Growing up we used to watch the Claymation Christmas Special and "We Three Kings" was always one of our favorites and to this day we still sing this song like this:
Also love this rendition of the song by Straight No Chaser:
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Day 3 for The Digit-al Dozen Does Festiveness and today is lights! Sure, I have a new stamp I could have used but I wanted to try free-handing some lights and I love how they turned out! :)
I chose these colors for the lights because these were the colors of the lights we use to have on our house growing up. We would keep them up all year long because they were a pain to put up and take down! :) But we had a basketball hoop up by the garage and so all the lights around the hoop got broken and that always made my dad mad! :)
I used Essence Romeo as my base. Wanted a nice neutral so that the color of the lights would pop!
I then used a small brush and Finger Paints Black Expressionism and drew the wire. I kind of like how it looks just like this! :)
For the lights I used Zoya Sooki, Catrice Blue Cara Ciao, Nails Inc Hans Place, and China Glaze Starboard. And yes, this is the same photo as above. Having issues with my OttLite and the lighting on my manis. Sorry! >_< Hahaha! :)
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Today I decided to bring you an easy fun accent nail of Rudolph! I was really happy how these turned out!
I started with three coats of Layla Softouch Effects 02 Golden Touch. Can I just say again how much I love the Softouch collection! Great formula and great durability! I did three coats and you can still see a bit of visible nail line in some lights. But I thought this was a great base as it is very holiday and magical! :) Oh and I am not a big gold person either and I love this!
I then used Layla Softouch Effects 11 Mudhattan (yep I bought this one especially for this mani!) for Rudolph's face. I used OPI Warm & Fozzie for his antlers, China Glaze Ruby Slippers for his nose, Pure Ice Platinum Magic Base Coat and Finger Paints Black Expressionism for his eyes.
Here is a different angle to show the texture of Mudhattan for Rudolph's face. It's sort of leathery! Can't wait to try this polish as a full mani!
A macro of Rudolph. I love OPI Warm & Fozzie for the antlers. I wanted something magical for them and have this polish with the two colors is great! Very shimmery! I think he turned out so cute!
I got my inspiration and help from this great tutorial over at Polish and Pearls (please click the link to see the video!).
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It's a new month so it's a new weekly challenge for The Digit-al Dozen! This month it is Festiveness! Coming up with original ideas for this topic is kind of hard. So I have pulled inspiration from many bloggers.
Today we have Santa's belt. Finally, I get to really use my China Glaze Ruby Slippers! This polish is more gorgeous than I thought it would be (not a huge red fan here). The more coats you use the deeper red it is! This is two coats. I added Finger Paints Black Expressionism for the belt. For the buckle I first used Sinful Colors Fashionista. This is supposedly for nail art. It says so right on the bottle and it's even a thinner brush.
Uh, nope. Not a good polish for nail art. Not even silver glitter and too much clear base. Just look? Fail on the silver glitter aspect Sinful Colors. Oh and this polish reeks! Eww!
So then I remembered I had this tiny gold polish by Avon called Luxe Life that I have had for years (like 10+ years!). And I applied it right over the failed silver. So this made my buckle a bit bigger but I still like them! :)
I was inspired by two bloggers first Polish2Times who then was inspired by Our Painted World (please click links to be sent to their sites to see originals!)
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