Christmas Pudding

Ever since I have seen Christmas Pudding manicure designs, I have waited for Christmas to arrive so that I can finally do one. With the work Christmas Party, I thought it was a brilliant opportunity to be able to do a Christmas Pudding design earlier.

For the cake part of the pudding I started with OPI Who Comes Up With These Names? Two coats later I left it overnight. In the morning I applied L.A. Girl Uninhibited to represent the fruit in the pudding. It would be great if I had a polish with the small black glitter for the sultanas and raisins and the larger glitter was red for glace cherries.

Excuse the very early morning light for the picture. I was up and making cupcakes for the party that night at 4:30 in the morning. The glitter dried quickly and that allowed me to paint the sauce on using Ulta3 Lily White with a nail art brush. I always envisaged having this manicure with holly on it but I didn't have anything I could use and my nails are too small for any stamping images.

I managed to get the cakes cooked, frosted and decorated before I left for work that morning. A load of washing was done for the children with their school uniforms for the day. Phew! The party went well and we scored plenty of things. I won a bottle of wine with my raffle ticket and another two bottles through auctions with play money. Mr R spent the rest of my money and was very proud of himself. He won a hamper stuffed with sweet and savoury food. Only about half of the items can be seen here.

Strawberry Fields Forever

Welcome to my fiftieth post and more of my ramblings.

Bribery and corruption abound. In order for me to get Miss L to clean her room, I promised her a special treat. I would paint my fingernails and her fingernails in the same design. Better than that, the design would be strawberries. Lo and behold the room was cleaned and I was to try my hand at painting strawberries on itty, bitty fingernails.

Here is a picture of our strawberry fields with my hand interlinked with Miss L's.

For the fruiting body I used one coat of L'Oreal 211 Opulent Pink. The brush was a little wild when I first opened the bottle and it seemed rather large for such a small bottle of polish. I found it slightly difficult to use on my small fingernails. One coat? A bonus.

The seeds were created with a single coat of L.A. Girl Glitter Addict in Uninhibited. This is the only black glitter I have. It would have been better to have only the micro glitter. At this point I think it resembles watermelon more than strawberries.

Next was the hard part. I am not an artist and I dreaded the idea of painting with my left hand onto my right. The only way these fingers were going to look like strawberries was to have the calyx painted on.  I was presented by Miss L with one of the brushes I use for clean up. L.A. Colors in Jungle Fever was the green used. I think my right hand my have turned out better than my left. If I had been able to get my bottle of Ulta3 Frog Prince open, I would have tried to add some veins or something to the calyx.

I am very proud of Miss L. She took this picture for me (after a few goes) but this is the only way you can get to see my right hand at the same time as my left without a tripod.

Simple, quick and pretty. I am happy with the end result. And... Miss L and I match. :D