Happy Holidays Everyone! :)

Hi everyone,

It's Christmas! We don't celebrate it on Christmas Eve, but everyone who does: Belated Happy Holidays :)


I hope you all had a great Christmas eve - if you were celebrating, and if not: happy holidays for today and tomorrow!


To me, Christmas is being around my loved ones and that is how I will celebrate Christmas this year too. We're visiting family for a huge dinner tomorrow and I can't wait til it's time to get up tomorrow morning (doesn't really sound like me, does it?!). I wish you all a lot of joy, happiness, love and above all, health. It's priceless and yet not something that can be taken for granted. Besides the untouchable things, maybe you'll even find some gems under the Christmas tree..


Whether you are a Party Hearty or you prefer a more quiet Christmas, I hope Christmas brings you light - both ways. I always see Christmas as a start of a new year, even though we still have a week of 2010 to go.


I hope you all have wonderful holidays and a Jolly Holly Christmas - or if you're celebrating something else, happy holidays, or if you don't celebrate, I hope you'll have a great weekend.


Leaves me to ask you the one thing that makes this nail related.. Who are you wearing for Christmas?

Happy Holidays everyone.

Orly Meet Me Under The Mistletoe

Hi all!

Almost Christmas! Squeeeee!! Are you as excited as I am?

BTW: I just discovered a pattern in my last posts - there's a lot of green. Sorry about that, but I just love green.. Especially with Christmas. Anyway, this green shot right to my number one green spot, beating China Glaze's Emerald Sparkle and OCC Blackboard. Yes, even Blackboard. This polish is amazing. I'm sure you've seen her a gazillion times already, but she deserves more pics. So here she is: Orly Meet Me Under The Mistletoe (MMutM).


Orly Meet Me Under The Mistletoe, three coats in daylight. MMutM is a gorgeous green packed with glass flecks. Let me tell you: my pictures don't do her justice! She's even prettier irl and I couldn't help staring at my nails.


Application on MMutM was great - quick and easy and the polish dried quickly. I've mentioned it a gazillion times before, but I really love the rubber caps that Orly does. It makes it easy to handle the wand of the polish :)


Awesomeness! This closeup just says it all. Pretty. Gorgeous. Glass flecks. Beautiful. Stunning. Should I continue?

That's all I have for you today, dear reader. Thanks for stopping by!


This post somehow didn't go up this morning.. I have no idea why!

Christmas Lights

Hi all!

Christmas is only a couple of nights away so here's another Christmas manicure! I didn't come up with this myself: I saw someone do this on MUA - I forgot your name, so sorry! Let me know if you read this, so I can give you the credits :) It's another easy, yet festive mani.


Christmas lights! To do this, you'll only have to do a few simple steps. First, paint your nails in a green color. I chose to do Nfu Oh 056 over China Glaze Holly Jolly, because I wanted a flakey tree. You can also go with a creme (like Orly Enchanted Forest or RBL Recycle) of a shimmer or glassflecked polish (like Orly Meet Me Under The Mistletoe or China Glaze Emerald Sparkle).

What you want to do next, is get a black polish and a striper brush. I used China Glaze Ink, which is technically not even really black, but it would work just as good. I drew some lines over my nails. I didn't want the lines to match: I wanted them to look 'random', like you see them in the trees.


When you've done that, it's time to take out your light bulb colors. I picked Barielle Glammed Out Garnet (red), China Glaze Lemon Fizz (yellow) and China Glaze Coconut Kiss (purple), but really, you can pick any color you'd like. I 'wiped' the brush of at the neck of the bottle, keeping just enough polish on the brush to create a bulb. I just put the brush on my nail to create a little oval drop and that's it! I think you could also use a dotting tool and pull it a little toward the light cord, so you get a somewhat teardrop shape to your colors.

I did that three times on all of my nails, so I had three different colors of lights. You can use as much colors as you'd like: I was aiming at a subtle yet colorful look, but I think I could have put another color there - like a pale lilac or something.

That's it! Easy, right? Even I could do it and my hands are nowhere near steady. Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Sweater

Hi all,

First up: I've filed my nails down recently so you may see different lengths of nails in the next couple of weeks, because I still have a ton to post that's not Christmas related. Just so you know my nails don't grow 5 mm a night! This manicure is done with Christmas colors green and gold, but has no holiday design. I think it looks like a Christmas sweater though!


China Glaze 2030 stamped with M60 over Catrice Run Forest Run! (review on this one will come next week :)). 2030 is the perfect gold stamping polish and although I'm not really a big gold fan, I love this for stamping. It gives a crisp and shiny look to the design!


In some angles you can barely see the green underneath the gold! I like this look, but it won't be my Christmas manicure, that's one thing I know for sure. What it will be.. I have no idea yet! And Christmas is so close..

Thanks for stopping by :)

Christmas in a Bottle!

Hi all,

Today I have China Glaze's glitter wonder for you: Party Hearty! I wore this last week over OPI Smitten With Mittens and it looks SO festive! I love the glitters.


One coat of China Glaze Party Hearty over OPI Smitten with Mittens with one coat of FFWD topcoat - I was also wearing this as a mani. I love love love this! Aaaaah glitter!! It looks like Christmas threw up on my nails.. Or something. Haha! Party Hearty is a clear base, packed with big red hexagonal glitter, smaller green hex glitter and tiny gold glitters.

If you like glitter, this is a musthave if you ask me! Now if you'll excuse me.. I'm going to stare at the glitter awesomeness. Hope you all have a great Tuesday!

Christmas Balls!

Hi all,

Today I have another Christmas inspired manicure again for you: Christmas balls! It's really easy to do but it looks very festive on the nails.


RBL Recycle with dots of China Glaze 2030 and China Glaze Ruby Pumps. I used my dotting tool to create the dots/ Christmas balls, but you can also use a toothpick if you don't have a dotting tool. The dots on the green make it look like balls in a Christmas tree! It's SO easy yet very festive on your nails.


How do you like my Christmas hat? Hehe! I thought it would make a nice background on the Christmas manicure!

I have a couple more Christmassy manicures ready to come up next week. They're all easy to do so everyone can do them :)

Just Bells..

Hi all,

Quickie today! I wore this on the last two days that I wore OPI Smitten With Mittens and it was Christmassy, so I thought I'd share a subtle Xmas mani :)


China Glaze 2030 stamped with M12 over OPI Smitten With Mittens. It's a really subtle, yes festive mani if you ask me.

I'm still working on sorting out the giveaway entries so please be patient with me! I'll do a post on what you'd like to see on Nailswatches more, too :)

Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

It's The Christmas Season!

Hi all!

It's December, which means that it's almost Christmas! I don't know about you, but Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year. Last year, I didn't really do Christmas manicures, but I decided to do a couple this year, and this is the first one!


Two coats of H&M Love At First Sight as a base, stamped with China Glaze Ruby Pumps and imageplate M12. Imageplate M12 is the Christmas Konad stamping plate and I love it for this season. It holds a Santa, clocks, candycanes, 'Merry Christmas!" and more. We don't really have Candycanes much here, but I really like the look of them and they always make me think of Christmas..


I put a coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust over it to make it sort of like a snow feel, and I think it turned out pretty nicely! Ruby Pumps is great for stamping, only the color is a bit less intense (which is only logical, since the polish is only one coat).


I like this so much that I might even wear this for Christmas! I'm still undecided, so I guess anything can happen ;)

Are you doing Christmas manicures this month?

PS: Voor al mijn Nederlandse lezers, fijne Sinterklaas vandaag! Niet te veel pepernootjes he ;)