Christmas Sweater Nails

Here's my take on the Ugly Christmas Sweater manis that have been floating around.  I had to work with only the handful of polishes I brought home with me, so it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to, but I still like it!

Products Used
Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in In The Red Creme
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Black Out
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in White On
Konad Plate m57
Bundle Monster Plates BM14 and BM214
Shany Plate SH17

Quick Winter Travel Mani

Here's what I did with my nails for travel.  It was quick, easy, and my family was really into them (they don't understand that crackle does its thing all on its own hahaha!)

Wintery, huh?  Like ice!

Products Used:

Revlon Top Speed in Royal

Sally Hansen Crackle in Snow Blast

Haul: Stocking Stuffers and Progress Picture

Wheeeee this is a queued post!  I am flying across the country to go home for Christmas!  Since my fiance and I are not spending Christmas together (we haven't spent a Christmas in the same state yet!) we celebrated on Saturday.  Here's what I got in my stocking!

That's China Glaze Skyscraper, Snow Globe, and Doll House, and NYX NGP162.  And down in front- new stamping plates (fauxnads- Shany!)  Hooray!

And since getting all these new polishes, and doing all these recent swatches, my nails have been growing like crazy!  Still having issues with my thumb and pointer finger- especially on my left hand.  I don't think my nails will EVER get to all be the same length, but still.  Progress is progress!  We have growth!

Quickie Holiday Mani

This was one of those times where I needed to do something with my nails, but I didn't have a lot of time to spend on them.  So I grabbed a couple glitters and my go-to white base, and boom.  Quick and easy holiday mani!  I used a new green glitter that I picked up from the store the other day, and the red glitter I got from Priti NYC back in August (and was all excited to use for Christmas even back then!)

Products Used:

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in White On

LA Girl Glitter Addict in Purge

Priti Polish in Union Jack

Swatch: Revlon Glitz & Glam

Wow!  This one sure suprised me.  I found it randomly in the store mixed in a basket of random colors, and I thought what the heck.  Microglitter in shades of pink, why not?  Then I got home, tried it on and wow!  I wasn't expecting it to be set in a raspberry base!  But it is, and it's very lovely.

Forgive these pictures.  The polish looks lumpy and goopy almost- that's my fault entirely, not the formula.  This is three coats over a coat of white- like I said, I wasn't expecting it to be set in a colored base- so it's on there pretty thick and sloppy.

See the different shades of pink glitter?

Swatch: Essie Pure Pearlfection

The last one from LuxEffects (I didn't buy the gold one- As Good as it Gets) is Pure Pearlfection.  This is beautiful!  It's this wonderful shimmery color with these itsy bitsy microscopic glitters.  It looks so good on this black base- it reminds me of gunmetal, it makes my plain black polish look metallic.  I can't wait to use this all the time, I rarely layer plain colors with topcoats like this.  I wish I could've captured all of the colors in this polish- it looks primarily silver, but in the bottle and close up, there were little flecks of pink and green and blue!

Gorgeous!

Swatch: Essie Set in Stones

Another one from Essie's LuxEffects!  Here's Set in Stones, a silver sister to A Cut Above.  Here is is over a black base.

This is just perfect for New Years!!