Christmas Lights Feat: Orly's "Luxe"

Merry Christmas every one! As you've already seen from my penguin and candy cane manis, i've been in the holiday spirit...on my nails at least. But in reality, i'm not really spending my days in anticipation of Christmas morning, i'm far more excited for the New Year. There have been press releases left and right for fabulous new collections coming out. Many making there debut right in time for my Friday the Thirteenth birthday in January. What are you excited for?

For this mani i had to use a wide variety of polishes.

Orly "Luxe" 

Color Club "Gingerbread"

Finger Paints "Where Art Renoir?"

Color Club "Chelsea Girl"

Color Club "Twiggie"

Essence "Glamourous"

                   Color Club "Wham! Pow!"

And a few tools: Small paint brush, Small and medium dotting tools.

I started out with two coats of Orly "Luxe"

Luxe is a polish i picked up out of no where just because it said "New" on it and was incredibly shiny. I never had the perfect excuse to use this metallic gold polish, which was a shame because its silver shimmer and flawless formula makes it picture perfect for nearly any occasion. Gold can always be worn as a tacky accent or for class and sass. Since it's more of a white gold rather then a yellow Luxe is the ideal shade for some extra glam.

Over "Luxe" i used one coat of Color Club's "Gingerbread." This glitter comes from the 2011 Color Club "Beyond the Mistletoe" collection. With tiny gold and and holo glitter this polish livened up Luxe of just enough so that it wasn't going to be too much to put Christmas lights over. I didn't want my base to be to busy, but i wanted it to sparkle.

With a small paint brush and Finger Paints "Where Art Renoir?" i carefully created my light wires. This isn't as difficult as it looks. I placed a small drop of polish on a non-porous surface and got small amounts onto my brush. Starting from the edge of my nail at any point i slowly made curved lines that eventually looped near the middle. The secret to this is taking your time and not trying to rush. Rushing will result in thin lines and sloppy wires.

From here i used a medium and small dotting tool to work on my lights. To make the lights i used my non-porous surface to blob some polish. With my medium dotting tool i made a fat dot near the wire. Before my fat dot dried i used my smaller dotting too to drag out the tip of my light in the direction of my pleasing.

After using Color Club "Chelsea Girl" and "Twiggie" i used Essence "Glamorous" to add red lights. I could have stopped here but i wanted one more color. You can really use any color you please for the lights, but your life will be so much easier if you choose polish of a thick consistency and opaque in finish. Thick polish will cut down on frustration when making your lights.

I finished with my bright orange "Wham! Pow!" by Color Club. If you were wondering "Wham! Pow!", "Chelsea Girl", and "Twiggie" are all apart of the same Color Club collection called "Poptastic."

I used the orange to fill in any empty spots along my wire. I tried to keep my lights all on one side of the wire to avoid cluttering up my nail and making the image to confusing to take in at first glance.

I finished with  a top coat