Merry Merry Christmas- Christmas Nail Design

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Today on the blog we will be create a cute Christmas nail design for the holidays. This design will have a Rudolph the red nose reindeer, Christmas tree branches and a gingerbread man. I don't know about all of you, I can't believe that it all ready Christmas and almost a new year, time just goes way too fast! 

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this Christmas nail design: 

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and CND Super Shiney Top Coat.

Polishes- China Glaze- Chalk Me Up!, Sinful Colors- Cinderella, Colors by llarowe- Arturo, and China glaze mini- Grinch- Resting Grinch Face.

Acrylic paint- Brown, black, red, green and white.

Nail art brushes- thin detail and stripper brush, and a large dotting tool.

Other- a cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes. Also. toothpick to place the glitter on the tree branches. 

Apply base coat to clean nails, let that dry.

Polishes-

Thumb, index, middle, and pinky- a light blue and a light blue shimmer polish.

(I first applied a cream light blue polish and then a light blue shimmer polish, just to get the light blue to be more opaque.) 

Ring finger nail- a light blue Holographic polish.

Let that dry.

Christmas tree branches on the index, middle and ring finger nails-

First we will start off with the more simple part the tree branches, first take a thin stripper brush with brown paint on it on each of the nails (index, middle and ring) make a curved line.

Then with that same brush, take a green paint and make thin lines on the top and bottom of that brown line, that are close together.

Once the green lines are dry, make a few white line for some snow.

For a final touch take some rainbow glitter polish and dab a few of those glitter pieces on to the branches. I used a tooth pick of this. 

Gingerbread Man on the ring finger nail- 

Now on to the Gingerbread man, take a thin detail brush with brown paint on it, make a circle near the cuticle, make to oval shapes on the side for his arms, then two more oval shapes for his legs/feet. You will need to go over this a few time to be opaque.

Once your gingerbread man shape has dried we can add his details. Take a large dotting tool with white paint on it and make two dots in the center of the circle/ his head. Then with a detail brush, also with white paint on it make a small dot for his nose, then take a thin striper brush and make small curve for his smile.

Now on to the Gingerbread's other features, For the bow take the same striper brush with white paint on it and make a line going around his neck, then make two loops in the center of that line and then make two lines going down from those loops. 

On both of his arms and legs make a small wavy line. Lastly make two dots for buttons. 

Reindeer on the thumb nail- 

Lastly we will make a Rudolph the red nose reindeer. Take you detail brush with brown paint on it first make a curved line near the center of the nail and then make an oval shape for his head, then make tow triangles on each side of the head for his ears. 

For his antlers make two curved line on the top of the head, make a few smaller lines on those lines for the antlers. 

For his face take a detail brush with black paint on it a make two small ovals for his eyes and then with red paint make a large oval for his bright red nose.  

For a final touch take your dotting tool with red and then green, make few dots near Rudolph's antlers. 

Once your nails are Christmas ready, apply a topcoat to seal in your design and to help it to last all Christmas. 

Here is my practice version, I actually like how the reindeer turned out better on the practice, on the final design I made his head a weird shape. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this Christmas nail design! Have a safe and Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2023!!

See you next time for more nail fun!