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Saturday, December 3, 2011

The 12 Days of Christmas Nails: Day 2 - Frosty Night

This is my second holiday manicure for the 12 Days of Christmas Nails (check out all of Sammy's designs so far here)!

I think this one looks like a snowy winter night.




Snowy Winter Night - Misa Dance Fever sponged over China Glaze Little Drummer Boy

I've never been too successful with sponging, but I think it all depends on what kind of polish you use for it. This glitter, Misa Dance Fever, was the perfect density for the sponging and it was actually pretty quick and easy! Also, I've heard that this type of gradient has a killer cleanup, so I put Liquid Palisade around my cuticles. I basically had NO cleaup at all! It worked so well! I've never been able to create neat design using Palisade, but it does seem perfect for avoiding cuticle cleanup from messy types of manicures (if I ever try water marbling or splattering, I will SURELY use this again!).

I topped it all off with China Glaze Fast Foward top coat, which has some shrinkage issues like Seche Vite, so that's why the blue shows around the cuticle edge and there's a bit of shrinkage at the tips.

I love this and want to try in in different colors now! I think a glossy black base with gold glitter would look really classy!

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9 comments:

  1. rcorneliusDecember 3, 2011 at 12:35 PM

    Jawdropping.

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  2. Jacqui of The Scholarly NailDecember 3, 2011 at 1:41 PM

    I love this! So festive without being your tyipcal red-and-green color scheme =)

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  3. Deborah - Love. Varnish, chocolate and more...December 3, 2011 at 3:30 PM

    OOOOOOH stunning! Also, if you use a little make-up sponge tip applicator for sponging (the "heart" shaped one) it also saves you clean-up, as you can be more precise :).

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  4. LinnieDecember 3, 2011 at 3:43 PM

    Gorgeous, looks really nice!

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  5. UnknownDecember 4, 2011 at 3:06 AM

    Stunning!

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  6. carissakuoDecember 4, 2011 at 6:22 PM

    wow! this is absolutely gorgeous!!!

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  7. I Drink Nail PolishDecember 6, 2011 at 5:25 AM

    OMG so beautiful!!! Love!!! <3

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  8. SkyeDecember 6, 2011 at 2:33 PM

    Hi Goose,

    I love your blog. I found it when someone posted one of your photos on Pinterest. I had to google "goose nail polish blog" because they had posted it with the URL of some Tumblr that had copied your image without a link back. But that search worked fine so the watermark really does help.

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  9. TanaAmbrosiaDecember 12, 2011 at 10:49 AM

    This is soooo awesome *o*

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