Candy Cane Accent

Hey!!

Merry Christmas! I hope you are having a wonderful time with your families and friends. This very festive manicure will put you in the mood for Christmas! You will need a red, white and gold nail polish and striping tape.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of Sei Bella crushed berries on my pinky and index fingernails. I painted my middle nail finger with two coats of Julep Sienna. My ring fingernail was painted with two coats of OPI Alpine Snow. I followed the same pattern on my thumbnails as I did on my ring fingernails.

Once my ring fingernail was completely dry I placed two pieces of striping tape diagonally across the nail with a little space in between them. I then grabbed another two pieces of striping tape and placed them a little further away from the first two pieces of tape, so that it leaves a bigger space in between them. I did this three times. So, three groups of two pieces of tape placed diagonally and spaced apart so in the end you have three bigger spaces formed in between the thinner spaces. I painted the bigger spaces red with Sei Bella crushed berries and the thinner spaces with Julep sienna so that when I removed the striping tape it gave me thick and thin lines. The thin lines were gold and the thick lines were red, like you see on a candy cane. When it was all dry I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Sei Bella Crushed Berries, OPI Alpine Snow, Julep Sienna 

Striping Tape over OPI Alpine Snow

Julep Sienna & Sei Bella Crushed Berries in between tape

Striping tape removed

Finished!

Isn't that beautiful? So festive! So Jolly! Ha Ha! I will admit, painting in the spaces between the tape was a little tricky but it is doable! It would have been easier to just to do all one color over all of the tape. It still would have looked like a candy cane, but I wanted to incorporate the gold too. You can decide what works for you. Merry Christmas and I will see you next time!!