Fuzzy Christmas French Manicure

As of yesterday, I am officially on vacation from work for the rest of the year. I'm excited to take it easy for a couple of weeks. In a week, my family is coming to visit from Tennessee and I couldn't be more excited. I don't get to see them often so I can't wait to spend Christmas with them.

For today's Christmas design, I was going to do the typical Santa manicure but wanted to do something simpler. 

31DC2013 Day 3 - Yellow Nails

The challenge prompt for today is yellow nails. Now, I am not the biggest fan of yellow on myself. I just don't have the skin tone for it. There's something about yellow nails, though. They're just so fun and lively! I wanted to stay simple with this manicure but still have some fun.

Animal! Animal!

The other day, at work, we somehow ended up in a discussion about The Muppets. I think most people are familiar with The Muppets and most of us have a favorite. My favorite has ALWAYS been Animal. I don't know what it is. He's so fuzzy, and loud, and wild, and fun!

Anyway, I thought it would be fun to do an Animal inspired manicure.

I used Sally Hansen Twisted Pink as a base. On every nail but my ring finger, I used a fuchsia flocking powder. I made Animal's face with Art Club Black, Art Club White, and OPI Deutsch You Want Me Baby.

I love using flocking powder on my nails. It took me a while to get used to it, but now I love it. Fluffy nails are cool.

Look how fluffy!

Cheshire!

Anyone who knows me well enough, knows that my favorite book of all time is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. So, naturally, my favorite Disney movie is Alice In Wonderland. (This is going somewhere. I promise.) 

I was craving a new manicure but could not figure out what I wanted to do. I sat there, looking at my polishes for, literally, half an hour. Then, I glanced over at my flocking powders. The fuchsia and purple were lying there next to each other and it hit me! Cheshire Cat stripes!

 

Aren't they great? Such fuzziness! I just happened to have coordinating colors on hand, too. OPI Planks a Lot and OPI That's Berry Daring. Then, it's just some tape cut all wavy-like and let the fluffiness begin!

 
I think this manicure can best be described by Agnes from Despicable Me. "It's so fluffy!!! I'm gonna die!!!" :D It's not necessarily the most practical manicure and fuzzy nails feel weird but it looks FANTASTIC!!!