Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Ahh Merry Christmas! I hope you're still in the mood for Christmas although I'm late five days (give or take) to wish you all here. I apologise as well for the long absence. Things unexpectedly took much longer time, one thing let to another and soon time was just slipping away! *gasp!* By the way, how was your Christmas?! I hope you had an awesome day! Mine was fantastic! While the whole day is not as desired, but I'm just so happy I manage to wear the kind of outfit/look I was going for! And that I didn't forget the small ones like, my watch! (it would feel like something's missing or less perfect if my wrist is without my watch :P). Haha! 

Anyway, it's really unfortunate I couldn't attempt the anticipated 12 Days of Christmas (2013 edition, lols). And though it feels rather overdued, I will be including a tutorial here that was promised at least a month ago. (Sorry!) 

I did this design during one short getaway. Since it was a short vacation, I didn't want to pack too many nail polishes. Ahh, but you know... I end up with quite a selection (expected, huh? :P). I had every intention to get this up here before Christmas Day came, but.. while I remember to pack my nail polishes and simple tools along. I have conveniently forgot to charge my camera nor bring its charger. Haha! Because of that, I was unable to photograph the needed pictures for the tutorial. (sighs) 

So, what you see here is a remake of the design I did while on vacation. I really love it so I want to share this design with you. I've also done some minor improvisation to make it more 'pulled together' as a skittlette. 

Christmas Skittlette Index, Thumb, Pinky Tutorial

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Step 1: Prep your nails with two coats of white nail polish.

Step 2: Take your red/green polish and wipe off most of the polish off the brush.

Step 3: In case your polish is pretty watery (like mine was) brush excess polish off on scrape paper. The key here is to get your polish brush as dry as preferrable (we still need some colours for the dry brush effect, haha!)

Step 4: Lightly swipe your brush horizontally across (left to right, right to left motion) the nail, covering 3 quarter of your nail plate. 

Step 5: Fill in the bottom of your nail with nail polish colour, be careful not to cover too much of the dry brush effect. 

Step 6: Take a lime green polish and using a toothpick, dot on three dots from the center first. Dot only on the coloured area. 

Step 7: Add more dots in alternating spaces as shown. 

Step 8: Continue adding more dots on the coloured section. After that, clean up and topcoat - Done! 

Christmas Skittlette Middle Finger Tutorial

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Step 1: Prep nails with two coats of white polish.

Step 2: Choose your desired red and green polish. Use your toothpick or small dotting tool and start dotting half of your nail plate with evenly spaced dots. (Feel free to start with green, if that's what you prefer). 

Step 3: Now dot the green dots in the alternative spaces beside the red dots. 

Step 4: Continue dotting in alternative space and colours until 'full'. Allow polish to dry. Otherwise you'd get smeared dots like I did. 

Step 5: Take your lime green polish and take off excess polish off the brush.

Step 6: Following the earlier tutorial dry brush method, lightly swipe your 'dry' lime green brush horizontally across the nail plate covering half of your nail and some of the dots. Fill in the tip of your nail with lime green polish. Be careful not to cover the dry brush effect.

Step 7: Repeat step 5 to 6 with a red polish but covering just slightly above the lime green colour. 

Step 8: Clean up and topcoat - Done! 

Christmas Skittlette Ring Finger Tutorial

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Step 1: Prep nails with white polish.

Step 2: Using toothpick and lime polish, dot four dots evenly spaced following the face of a clock (12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock). These will serve as primary guidance if you face difficulties in drawing a circle. 

Step 3: Now that you have your main guides laid out, join the dots in little curves to form a circle. 

Step 4: Using a darker green, dot over the lime green to give your wreath a fuller feel. Be sure to leave some lime colours visible as that would give your wreath more dimension. 

Step 5: Choose your preferred glitter polish and spread some on a scrape paper. Now, while the polish is still fresh on the paper, use your toothpick to pick and select your glitters. Place them as you like on your wreath (aka, decorate it! :D). 

Step 6: Choose a shimmery and opaque polish, draw an outline of bow above your wreath with a toothpick. 

Step 7: Once you've gotten the outline of your bow laid out, fill in your bow using the toothpick and touch up where needed. 

Step 8: Clean up and topcoat - Done! 

And that is all! Super easy and you don't need too many tools. Just a simple small dotting tool or toothpick! :) I hope you find the tutorial easy to follow and easy to understand. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask. Hehe, here's one more picture to end my post for today! 

Hehe, yeaps. That's all for my post today. I hope you still like them despite being late for Christmas. How fast time flies! We're now almost the end of 2013!! Have you planned your New Years Nails yet?