Tinsel (plus, I'm melting!)

I finished both the 11th and 12th challenge on time, but didn't post since I was kinda booked with church and family and presents and children.

My tinsel mani was really cute when I finished it. A few hours later, my thumb paint seemed to buckle. Weird.

The base is a couple of coats of Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar, which is a really nice deep shimmery red. Then I put on a coat of Finger Paints Sparkle Top Coat. It didn't feel smooth enough, so I put a couple of coats of SV on top. I assume that's why it buckled on my thumb.

As always, pics aren't great. I liked the sparkleflashmess though, so I left it in.

A Christmas Story, and how fitting!

I have always loved A Christmas Story. The whole thing makes me giggle and snork and slap my leg laughing, every year. Maybe it helps put things into perspective -- you know that no matter how many things go awry in your holiday plans, no one stuck his tongue to a pole, or gave you a pink bunny suit, and your dinner is safe from marauding dogs.

In honor of this movie, my manicure is based on A Christmas Story. And it had about as many disasters as the movie.

I had a BRILLIANT IDEA. Truly revolutionary. I was going to turn the nail-blogging community on its HEAD. I had built it up as the most awesome thing EVER. In my head. I was going to decoupage. ON MY NAILS!

Guess what? The reason why no one decoupages paper onto their nails is because it doesn't really work. Even with the PVA base. It sticks up at the edges, the paper doesn't conform to the shape of the nail, and... it's annoying as all heck.

I figured this out about ten minutes after finishing the last coat and realizing that the Seche Vite on top was never going to dry, that the paper was never going to lay flat, and I snapped some pictures without bothering to clean up, the sooner to get it off.

Maybe I was doomed by picking that movie. I had some wrapping paper and thought I could go with the theme. The base is Sinful Colors' Sugar Sugar, the black is Black on Black, and the white in the broken glasses on my index finger is White On by Sally Hansen.

Ah, being humbled by my own lack of skill. It's good for the soul.

In the meantime, I'm certain the other challengers had far more success. Go check them out!