Thanksgiving NOTD

These were my nails of the day (NOTD) for thanksgiving. A really simple rose gold look with rhinestones. To begin, I painted my nails with a basecoat, then "Dancing Nails" by Sinful Colors and "Shimmering Shale" by Mineralfusion. Never in my entire 4.5 years of studying geology have I ever seen a rose gold, glittery shale, but I digress. It's a really pretty glitter. Then I just added the black and gray rhinestones to the bottom of each nail. Easy.
This look is festive and fancy, but definitely not specific to the winter holiday season. Any kind of special occasion where it's okay to get a little bit tacky works with these nails.

Easy Snowflake Nails

These nails aren't explicitly "Holiday," just kind of wintery, which I think is okay for this early in the holiday season. The dark blue I used is Sally Hansen "Blue it" and the light blue is Essie "Bikini so teeny." I alternated dark and light blue the way I did because I thought too much of the dark metallic blue would overpower the look. To draw my white snowflakes/ stars, I made an X on my nail, then a plus sign. I find that works better somehow. Then I alternated between a half moon snowflake and a nail tip snowflake with a black nail art pen on the light blue nails. I think it looks fine without any glitter, but a silver glitter accent instead of a snowflake on one of your nails would be cool also.

Black Lace Nails

Here is a simple line drawing design that looks great on all fingers, a few fingers or an accent nail. You could really use any color, but I think a nude base looks best with a black lace design. The color I used was "Shari" by Julep.
To begin, I drew some diagonal lines perpendicular to each other on one corner of the nail for a cross hatching effect. Then I added a scalloped line closer to the center of my nail. To embellish, I added dots on the outside of the scallop and clusters of 3 lines on the highest amplitude parts of the scallop. If you are using a nail art pen and not a striper or toothpick to make your design, it's very important to seal the design with topcoat, or it will rub off! I used O.P.I's regular finish topcoat on mine.

November Sky Nails

Sorry for not uploading sooner- Charter Communications has been a pain in the butt lately, and even though we pay a lot monthly for them, they seem to think internet access is a priveledge and not a right for their paying customers.
Anyways, here is a simple nail art design I came up with that is inspired by the bare trees and gray skies this time of year. The base color is "Bergen" which is from Julep (was limited edition this summer, not sure if it's still available), a lovely slightly shimmery blue-gray. I just added trees with a black nail art pen and a few dots in the background to represent chevrons of geese flying south. On my left index finger, my geese got smeared when I applied topcoat too quickly, but I thought the effect was cool.

Matte Dots and Lines

After painting my nails plain pink (Revlon Posh Pink) for a job interview yesterday, I decided to just add some simple dots and lines for a more interesting manicure. I added some horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines in various combinations on each nail, then filled in one line with black dots.
I thought a matte topcoat would look best with this design.
They are a little sloppy because I free-handed them, but I really should have done this with nail striping tape.