How to create Christmas Nail Art

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Christmas Nail Art DIY

The festive holiday season is the best excuse to grab some glitter and create so beautiful Christmas Nail Art. Whether you prefer traditional or fun there are so many options to adorn your fingers this December!

Polishes used for the Christmas Nail Art

You can use any polishes you like to create Christmas Nail Art but here are some of my favourites

• ‘Ard As Nails
• Barry M Cosmetics-particularly their Gelly Hi Shine range
• Holo Taco-their glitters are particularly festive. Check out my review here.
• Mundo De Unas Stamping Plates

Christmas Pudding Nail Art

Polishes needed

• Base Coat/Top Coat
• Brown-The brown polish I used is two coats of Leaves Turning from ‘Ard as Nails with one coat of an Oopsie Polish 2419 (which gives it the beautiful sparkle)
• White-mine is the beautiful Jawbreaker also ‘Ard as Nails.
• Red-I used Leighton Denny Be My Berry
• Green-I used Kiss My Grass from Little Fudge’s Beauty Shop.

To create the nails

• Paint an accent nail brown and three nails white
• On the accent nail use a dotting tool to create icing drips with the white
• On the white nails paint a brown semi circle at the bottom
• Then add icing and holly details. Use a dotting tool for this, a thin brush or a cocktail stick (just keep your touch light so as not to jab your polish!!)

Christmas Nail Art-Alternative French Tips

Polishes needed

• Base coat/top coat
• White-I used Barry M Cotton
• Green-I used Barry M Holographic Flare
• Red-I used Barry M Blood Orange

To create the nails

• First apply clear or a glitter polish across the nails.
• Then red on the tips
• Next take a dotting tool and layer dots in festive colours across the edge
• Finally finish an accent nail with a piece of holly created using a thin brush or dotting tool

Bauble Nails

Polishes needed

• Base coat/Top Coat
• A selection of metallic bauble colours
• White-I used Barry M Cotton
• Black-I used Barry M Black Forest

To create the nails

• First apply clear polish across the nail
• Then create the bauble shape with your bauble colours by using the brush pressed flat on the nail to create a semi circle at the top
• Finally use a dotting tool or brush with white or black to create string, bow and designs on the baubles!

Christmas Lights

Polishes needed

• Base coat/Top coat
• A base colour-I used Barry M Ice Queen
• Black for the wire-I used Barry M Black Forest
• 4 to 5 colours for the lights

To create the nails

• Apply your base colour
• Draw on the light wire using a thin brush
• Dot on the lights with a thin dotting tool or cocktail stick in a repeating pattern. You can go small or big with these just keep them consistent to look like a string of lights. For the Candy Cane nails below I went big with the lights and created a tinsel effect on the other nails by wobbling the red stripes with a brush.

Nightmare Before Christmas Nail Art

Polishes needed

• White Polish-I used Cotton Gelly Hi Shine
• Black Polish-I used Black Forest Gelly Hi Shine
• Flakie top coat-I used the 3 limited edition anniversary flakies from Holo Taco
• Black, Red, Blue and grey stamping polishes-I used Mundo de Unas polishes
• Stamping plate
• White acrylic paint

To create the nails

• First I created a vertical gradient across the nails using Cotton and Black Forest
• I then created a horizontal layered gradient using the 3 flakies to represent snow.
• For the images on top I used Mundo de Unas Jack Skellington stamping plate.
• I used blue and grey Mundo de Unas stamping polishes to create the snowflakes stamping the design multiple times across the nail.
• For the ring finger I just used black stamping polish to create the design. 
• For the middle finger I used red and black polishes on the stamping plate at the same time. 
• Once stamped I then used a thin brush to apply white acrylic paint to brighten Jack and his hat!

You can use and combine these techniques and ideas to create a wide range of Christmassy designs! For other ideas check out my other post.

What Christmas Nail Art design would you love to wear on your nails? let me know in the comments!