Aussie Nails 2013 Nail Art Challenge - Decorating the Tree

For the trimming the tree challenge I had to have baubles. For some reason baubles are my all time favourite Christmas decoration. I mean they're just balls but I love them. This was a half win half fail loo. I used acrylic paint for the tree garland and it kind of worked but didn't come out exactly as I am imagined it would. The base colour is the gorgeous Zoya Hunter and the red and white baubles are from acrylic paint. I recommend trying acrylic paints, they're in expensive and if you make a mistake it's easily fixed. They can require work as some are streaky or at least my set it, but I do love being able to just wipe the mistake off and start again.

AHHH It's two weeks until Christmas where did that time go? Tx

Christmas Candy | 12 Days Of Christmas Nail Art Challenge

 Since I've already done the predictable red and white candy cane nail art I decided to do all bright green to represent peppermint Christmas candy. The gorgeous green is butter London Squatter. I painted a white base on my ring finger and sectioned areas with striping tape to create the stripes with one quote of butter London Squatter. Green was a lot easier to work with than red and only had minor streaking. The glitter on my pinkie is butter London Fairy cake applied in one thin coat over Squatter.

Have a fabulous Friday, Tx

The 12 days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge - Day 1 Christmas Tree

I'm taking part in a couple of challenges for Christmas this year. This is my first for 12 days of Christmas and I've cheated a little by using an awesome polish The Tree Disguise Kit be Femme Fatale Cosmetics. I have another tree challenge to do today, so I'm pretty sure this gorgeous polish counts for one. The colours used in this polish are pretty close to my actual Christmas tree so I just had to wear it to trim the tree yesterday. How awesome is it? With so much depth it really does look like the baubles are hiding in the tree. Happy December everyone, Tx.

http://www.naileditnz.com/2013/11/12-days-of-christmas-nail-art-challenge.html

New Year's Eve - last holiday challenge

Happy New Year!!

This is my last challenge in the winter holiday challenge, I've really enjoyed it and hope to find another challenge soon. I love how this mani looks and yes I'm still swooning over Lime Crime. This gorgeous almost neon green is Pastelchio and as with all Lime Crime polishes it was a dream to apply. It is such a gorgeous colour with the right pop to be in a New Year's Eve mani.

For my accent finer I used one coat Silver Sweep by Sally Hansen and then two coats of Milani Jewel FX in silver. I had to work the glitter around to cover the nail but I love how one accent finger looks. I'm not even going to think about removal yet :)

I had a quiet New Year's Eve as I'm still not feeling great but it was nice to see in the new year with my loved ones. 2012 hasn't been the kindest year in my little family so I am looking forward to all 2013 can bring. I added the photo with the quote up the top, it's my favourite and fitting to remember as we enter a new year. I hope the new year holds only good things for you and your loved ones.

Santa and Elves - winter holiday challenge

Apologies these are just photos from my phone :(. It's been so busy around, these are from Christmas Eve and I hope I remember what I used lol.

Elf suit - Nubar reef green and Essie First Dance

Red nails - Essie First Dance

Santa - face - nubar faded putty, nose OPI sparrow me the drama, white Essence sparkling water lily and red same as above. Santa suit same red and white, gold is Zoya Ziv. 

My cuticles look very stained but they did clean up nicely.

reindeer - Holiday Winter Challenge

The reindeer were a lot of fun to do and while technically I missed the sleigh out I just had to attempt these reindeer. I followed the tutorial by Simply Rins and made a couple of adjustments to suit me better.

The base colour is Milky Ways by Lime Crime - I still love this brand for their rich colours and ease of use. I used e.l.f Innocent for the reindeer heads, e.l.f smoky brown for their antlers, their cheeks are dots of Opi mod about you and Rudolph's nose is Sally Hansen ruby stilettos.

I think they are so very cute and am super grateful Rina did the amazing tutorial for them.

 Then... I thought they were looking lonely so decided to add an attempt at Santa and an Elf. I like how they both turned out but wish I had done the elf's face a different colour as his ears don't stand out as well as I'd hoped.

Santa used - Essie First dance for his hat, one coat of Zoya Grace over Orly white out for his face, Orly white out then Essence sparkling water lily dotted over for his hat trim and painted on his beard to add texture. Elf used - Opi - mod about you for his face, Nubar Reef green for his hat and then I used a red nail art pen for the trim but I am disappointed that that came out more brown looking.

I do love them though and love the super Christmas buzz I get from looking at my nails :)

Have a safe weekend.

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Christmas ornaments - winter holiday challenge

This challenge was a lot of fun! I love everything Christmas, but am seriously addicted to baubles :). Not sure why but I love them and don't believe you can ever have too many on your tree. So in choosing ornaments for this challenge I couldn't go past baubles.

I started with a bade of Nubar faded putty with two coats, I then added one coat of Essence - Sparkling water lily. The baubles are done in fuchsia Essie - Bossa Super Nova, blue- Zoya - Robyn and Butter London Scallywag and the purple is Opi - Purple with a purpose. I used a gold nail art pen for the hooks and decoration.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Trees always look better when surrounded with gifts :)

Presents and gift wrap - winter holiday challenge

I didn't get around to doing this challenge until yesterday, with the news coming out of the US it was a little hard to feel merry and bright so these are more somber than what I had planned. As a side note my heart breaks for the families and loved ones of those who were tragically taken yesterday. Children! just tiny little children - I will never understand.

 I started with a base coat of Lime Crime (I'm in love with this brand) Milky Ways and stamped using Konad black. The glitter ribbon is China Glaze I'm not Lion.

My free hand bows weren't as crisp as I would like but it's all still a learning curve :)

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Snowman - Christmas Challenge

 I re-found some mojo and absolutely loved doing this mani! The lil snoman is so cute! I used Lime Crime Once in a Blue Mousse and it was a dream to use. The brush is great, it covered so easily as the formula is to die for!

The snowflakes were doing with Konad white and the ddots and Snowmen were Orly white out.

The cute little nose is Illamasqua Purity.

The snowman on my right hand, he's just as cute :)

I have another challenge due today but these snowmen are too cute to take off just yet so I may have to play catch up next week.

Have a happy Friday!

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XOXO Alexis Leigh
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A Ginger's Nail
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