Christmas Jumper Nails

With Christmas coming round the corner I thought it would be a perfect time to start on the Christmas nails! These are inspired by a t-shirt and some slippers that I saw at Primark the other when I went shopping. Fair Isle snowflakes are some of my favourite to draw and paint so I knew that I would have some of them in this design.

 

I had so much fun doing these nails, Christmas jumper nails are some of my favourite nails to do as they really get me into the festive mood! As usual, I started this mani off with a base coat of OPI's Nail Envy. I then painted my index, middle and pinky finger with two thin coats of China Glaze - With Love, and my ring finger with two thin coats of OPI - Alpine Snow.

With Love is my all time favourite red nail polish, it's the perfect consistency and is fully opaque in two thin coats which is perfect! If you're searching for red then I highly suggest you try this one out! 

Here's an image of the top and slippers that inspired this look. Unfortunately I was not able to take pictures of my nails against the items as I am currently visiting a friend.

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Bob's Burgers Nail Art

My absence from updating this blog can be explained by two things, deadlines at uni and Netflix. I've currently been watching Bob's Burgers with my housemate, and I love it so much, it's such a funny show and I recommend it to everyone.

I decided to paint my favourite characters from the show onto my nails, and let me tell you, this was very hard. I think next time I have a bit of an absence from nail art I'll ease myself into it more gently!

As usual I started out with a base of OPI - Nail Envy. I followed this up by two thin coats of OPI - Alpine Snow and then one coat of Barry M - Yellow. I put the white down first to make the yellow more vibrant and stand out more, as it is not the most pigmented polish out there. I then painted the art on with acrylic paint and finally topped it all off with Seche Vite.

I struggled quote a lot with this design, probably because there are many thin lines in the characters faces, such as their eyebrows, mouths and chins. The brushes I used were a little bit too thick to create such thin lines.