I was up for a holiday manicure this morning, so I ran with it. Actually, I tried and failed last night (there was a products-don't-like-each-other wrinkled polish incident), and the last thing I did to this mani didn't work out as planned, but now that my second attempt has gone south, I'm leaving it. It's not too far off the mark, and I can show you where it went wrong.
I started out with two coats of China Glaze Midnight Kiss, then added a holly pattern from Bundle Monster plate BM14, painting the leaves with Green Konad Special Polish and the berries with Cool Red Konad Princess Polish. I wanted to add one more thing, so I stamped the Christmas tree from Konad plate m12 in Konad Green, and at this point, all was well. However, the Christmas tree didn't look too festive being green with green decorations, so I had at it with cheapo rhinestones.
That's where the problem came in - I got a bunch of little wheels of rhinestone-y things super cheap off of ebay a while back, and now I see that they're cheap because they're crap. I used a round white rhinestone for the star on the tree, which was fine, and then I added a few little round metallic beads to the Christmas tree, and top coat made the color bleed off of them. So it would have been just right but for my crappy tree decorations. In the picture, there are also some droplets on a few nails - it was snowing pretty hard when I ran out to take the picture, so please just ignore them.
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| Christmas Eve Nails |
See how the color bled right off of the red pieces on my ring nail? That's pretty frustrating at the very end. However, no one's going to look at my nails as close up as this picture, and from a normal close distance it's more okay. The red pieces just look oddly blurry, so I'm going to leave it alone.
The moral of the story is don't buy cheap crappy nail decorations like I did, and if you do, don't use them as the last step of a manicure that was kind of a hassle to execute. Words to live by.
That's what I have for you today, Dear Reader. Until tomorrow, love and nail polish to you! 
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