DIY: Christmas Nails

Hey girls!

Christmas is just around the corner which means good food, fun parties, pretty dresses, and of course, festive nails! Just by using household items, you can get your nails from plain white:

To these pretty Christmas-sy nails:

Things you need:
1. White nail polish (I used The Face Shop's gel nail polish that you can easily get for $10.90!)
2. Silver glitter nail polish (from The Face Shop)
3. Gold glitter nail polish ("I'm Not Lion #80527" from OPI)
4. Red nail polish (from OPI)
5. Toothpicks
6. Mechanical pencil with lead

Here's how to get the basics before any designs are painted on:
1. Paint one coat of nail base coat (base coat is always a MUST to prevent your nails from turning yellow after the manicure! My #1 nail base coat polish is from Sally Hansen!)
2. Paint two coats of white nail polish and leave to dry for 5 minutes

"Let Me Sparkle This Christmas!"
For the thumb's design (as seen in second picture):
1. Take a toothpick and dip it into the silver glitter nail polish bottle
2. Let the toothpick drip a little into the bottle first
3. Using the toothpick, create three intersecting lines
4. Again with the toothpick, dip it into the bottle again and dot the ends of the intersecting lines
5. Top your nails off with a finishing clear coat and viola!

If you're still finding all our instructions a little fuzzy, you can watch the video below for reference:
we all know how videos can make everything so much easier!




"Throw Some Glitter, Make It Rain"
For index finger's design (as seen in second picture):
1. Simply paint one coat of silver glitter nail polish onto your white nail
2. Paint your finishing clear coat onto your nail

"Polka My Dot This Christmas" 
For middle finger's design (as seen in second picture):
1. Let your red nail polish drip onto a stack of tissues
2. Dip the mechanical pencil with a lead length of 0.5mm into the tiny puddle of red nail polish
3. Dot the red-tipped lead onto your nail randomly to create a "polka dot" effect
4. Paint your finishing clear coat onto your nail

"Tonight We Are Golden"
For ring finger's design (as seen in second picture):
1. Simply paint one coat of gold glitter nail polish onto your white nail
2. Paint your finishing clear coat onto your nail

"Hand me the Candycane"
For pinky finger's design (as seen in second picture):
1. Take a toothpick and dip it into the red nail polish bottle
2. Let the toothpick drip a little into the bottle first

3. Start to draw a candy cane

4. Repeat step 3 several times until you are satisfied with how thick the weight of your candy cane is (to ensure that the outline of your candy cane is obvious)

5. Paint your finishing clear coat onto your nails.


Finished results:

More Christmas nail tutorials that you can take inspiration from:

Hope this satisfied your Christmas spirit, because I know it did for me!
Have you gotten your nails down for the festivities yet? :)
Here's from Clothes x Envy, wishing everyone a Merry Christmas (soon)!

Accidental Beauty: DIY - Oil Slick Nails

Hi everyone!

First of all, we would like to thank you ladies for the awesome response on our blog and Facebook page you have given us so far. We're still in the midst of working up some really interesting projects for clothesxenvy. We'll attempt to update this space as often as time allows us to :)

It's been raining almost everyday where we live and the weather hasn't been very good in perking up spirits. Hope everyone has been wrapping up in knits, drinking their favourite hot tea and enjoying the best out of the stormy weather!

Inspiration for oil slick nails in this post comes from the fall trend this year: holographic nails. Because it has been raining so much lately, the puddles after the storm at car parking lots inspired this nail look - accidental beauty from pollution.
Here is a short tutorial on how to get Oil Slick Nails!

What you need to get stylish in-trend oil slick nails:
1. Clear nail polish
2. Black nail polish
3. Green & purple glitter nail polish

1.  Apply one coat of clear nail polish (FACESHOP)

2.  Apple two coats of black nail polish (1126 Smoke And Ashes from China Glaze)

3. Apple one coat of green & purple glitter nail polish (we used FACESHOP's glitter nail polish to get the oil slick effect)

4. Apply one clear coat of nail polish (to prevent the glitter from dropping or chipping)

From plain black looking nails:

To this:

We must warn you first that this is our version of oil slick nails. They are very hard to achieve if you don't have the right nail polish for it, so do not be disappointed if you can't get the kind you want!

Hope this helped, and if it didn't you can always google it. Each combination of nail polishes will turn out differently so just continue to experiment with different brands & kinds!

Here's a website with an array of some other nail polishes that might give you different oil slick looks: http://vegas.racked.com/archives/2013/10/01/twelve-holographic-nail-polishes-for-oil-slick-manicures.php

What's your latest nail trend that you're rocking this fall? Any rad colors that you're finding yourself sporting lately? We'd love to hear from you :)