Red and Gold Christmas Nails

Since Christmas is only a few weeks away, I decided to do a blog on Christmas themed nails.  I will do a variety of patterns using an OPI red color, and another OPI nail polish, a sparkly gold with a pink hue in it.  I also used NYC nail polish for a top coat of clear sparkles.

I started with the red OPI color on my thumb, the first coat dried in two minutes so I applied a second coat. When that coat dried I used the NYC clear sparkles top coat.

I used the red OPI nail polish again for my next nail.  Applying two coats and letting them dry before making a polka dot pattern. Taking a pin and a regular pencil with some of the eraser left on the top I stuck the pin through the eraser to make a dotting tool. This creates little dots and allows me to reach farther into the nail polish bottle.  I arranged the dots in a diagonal pattern on the nail rather than in a random order.

For the next nail I did a diagonal stripe pattern using strips of scotch tape. I cut three small strips of tape, (trying to all of them the same size), and placed them diagonally across my nail. I then used the OPI red nail polish and painted the entire nail. I waited ten minutes to make sure the polish was completely dry before carefully taking off the tape. Using the pin on top of the pencil I filled in the strips with the gold nail polish, carefully dotting and trying to fill in the strips as best as possible without running onto the red.

For my ring finger I used the OPI gold sparkles, applying two coats to the whole nail, let it dry, then used the red nail polish and the dotter to make one line at the top of the nail of small dots.

For my last nail I did half and half.  I used the scotch tape to cover half the nail diagonally, and then painted the red nail polish on the bottom half of the nail. I didn’t use the dotter, only the nail polish brush to paint on the gold polish on the top half of the nail.

This only took me about forty minutes, though this is just for one hand so the process of painting all my nails would probably take over an hour. If I did it over again I would forget about using the NYC sparkles on my thumb nail, but it doesn’t look so bad.

Merry Christmas!