Cherry Red | Craftynail

It’s week two of the December N.A.I.L. Linkup and the theme is shopping. If you’re like me, the word shopping in December means a mad scramble to finish your holiday shopping list! Luckily, I got most of my shopping done on friday. The only time I ever really visit Kohl’s is Christmastime… and what amazing deals they have! Then they give you Kohls CASH which is icing on the cake! I got gifts for everyone on my list and now I’ve even got gifts on my nails! Let’s take a look at my shopping nails for #NAILLINKUP…..

The wrapping paper and bows came out great! They’re actually decals that I made. I’ve shown you how to make decals here, but I’ve never tried it with stamping before. So basically, I stamped the gifts onto a plastic baggie using my MoYou Festive 03 plate. Then I painted on top of the gift stamps with green/gold/blue and then I topcoated it. Once it was dry (overnight) I peeled it off the baggie, flipped it over, et voila! A pretty little painted present! I got the idea from Indian Ocean Polish’s blog. Everytime I login to pinterest I go ga-ga over her decals so I just had to try them out! Here’s her tutorial- you should check it out!

I’m also happy to wear red again. I’m loving red more and more lately! Shown here is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Cherry Red. I’m really impressed with it’s formula!

Be sure to check out the other girls’ designs for the Linkup- see the blue guy below! If you’d like to join in, here’s more info on the linkup…

N.A.I.L. December Theme 2 – Shopping

Hey everyone! Today I’ve got a funky ruffian design for you! I got the idea from my friend Amy over at Ooh La La Nails who did this cool design a few weeks ago: Rainbow Mani. I decided to use a whole bunch of my Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Nail Colors for this ruffian. I went with colors that do not coordinate at all so it would look crazy and kinda fugly. In case you are wondering- yes, I did this on purpose! LOL

This mani took well over two hours and there’s 11 coats of polish including base and top coats! I only did two nails like this on my other hand since it was hard to paint with my left hand and it took forever. I learned an important lesson while working on this ruffian- I need to tie my hair up in a ponytail before working on my nails! My long hair was hanging all over the place while I was painting so my boyfriend kindly put a headband in my hair to help me out. But the headband didn’t cut it, and my hanging hair strands got stuck on my thumb nail while waiting for my topcoat to dry. UGH!! My thumb design got messed up so I painted it blue along with the other fingers on my right hand that didn’t have ruffian painted on them. The trials and tribulations of a nail painter!!

I made sure to alternate application of creams and shimmer polishes so the colors contrasted against each other. I think it worked, as this may be my craziest mani yet! Here’s the colors I used….