Blue polka dots and more Christmas nails

I got my Julep warehouse sale order today(only two polishes, but any nail mail=a good day) so I picked up one of the Maybelline Polka Dots collection while at Target. I literally last night saw the collection layered over various colors and wanted to try the blue layered over a light blue, and Bess was one of my colors coming.

This is Julep Bess on it's own. Usually I find Julep polishes on the thick side, this was just the opposite. This was two fairly thick coats and you can still see through it.

This is a coat and a half(extra dabs) of Maybelline Blue Marks the Spot. Usually I hate glitter toppers because I can't get the glitters spread evenly, but this did a pretty great job on it's own. The pieces aren't actually glitter, but I'm not sure what else to call em. I absolutely love this.

Here's a couple more photos from December manis. The China Glaze glitter I like, the holo not so much. I used a random green holo I got off etsy a couple years ago that used to be way darker, and I really thought Jade's Vermelho Surreal was a true red holo, but it ended up a copper red.

Two coats of Vermelho Surreal, and 5 or 6 of the unnamed, no longer made green.

This is China Glaze Pure Joy over Just Be-Claws(red shimmer.)

-Tara

Christmas Nail Art and Holo Glitter

Here are some swatches of polishes/nail art I did around Christmas. Right before Christmas I got my order from Julep's 12 days of Christmas spin the wheel promo day, which included the holo glitter bomb Joelle. It was SO pretty on that I didn't want to take it off for days. So I ended up just using a chevron sticker and painting an accent nail over it and calling it good!

The green and red are China Glaze Jolly Holly and Red Pearl, the glitter under is Julep Joelle over Zoya Trixie.

Here is the glitter bomb on it's own. This is two coats of Julep Joelle over Zoya Trixie(a silver foil.) It was SO hard to capture how holo the glitter was.

Prior to that I tried Sinful Color's red and green glitter topper over white, but ended up getting so OCD over the glitter being evenly placed that it took a good half hour just to get one hand done. SO I scrapped it, but at least got a photo of the swatch.

This is millions of dabs of Sinful Colors Holiday Rebel over a couple coats of Julep Nicolette.

Prior to that I was feeling lazy(notice a theme?) so just did a standard green and red mani. I love how the green turned out.

All colors used are China Glaze, the red is Red Pearl, the green is Jolly Holly topped with Running in Circles.

-Tara