Tis' the Season Nails

Everywhere you look on Pinterest you can see Christmas-especially in the nail tutorials. From Santa hats, Santa faces, and Santa suits, inspiration was everywhere. I decided since last weeks nail tutorial was a horrible failure, I could try again this week to get into the Christmas spirit. I will be trying three different Christmas nails, all of which were pictures uploaded with no tutorial. For each one I will be using red, white, black, light pink, and yellow/gold nail polish with toothpicks and cotton swabs as applicators. The first one is Santa's suit
Picture I'm basing my instructions on:                          Picture of my nail:

 

Start by applying a red nail polish to your entire nail. After the red is completely dry, use a Q-tip to apply    white nail polish to the tip of your finger and down the middle, making a T. Then use the toothpick to apply a row of black dots down the white strip (The middle line of the 'T'), and a horizontal black line across the middle of your finger. Follow by making a square box with the golden nail polish around the middle of the black line and your Santa Suit nail is complete!

Picture I'm basing my instructions on:                       Picture of my nail:

                                              

Next nail was for Santa's face. Start with a clean nail and apply red to one third of your nail, starting at the cuticle. Once its dried, apply a white line over the tip of your nail, like a french manicure, then apply a parallel line with a Q-tip over the bottom of your red line.  Use a toothpick to make two black dots below the white line for Santa's eyes and one pink dot below the eyes for his nose and your Santa's Face nail is complete!

Picture I'm basing my instructions on:                       Picture of my nail:
                            
For the Santa's hat you once again start with clean nails and apply red to one third of your nail, but this time you start at the tip of your nail. Apply a line of white nail polish with a Q-tip underneath the line of red.Use a toothpick to apply red nail polish from the left side tip of your nail down to the middle and then put a white dot on the tip of your white to be the puff-ball (or if you want to glue a sparkle on as seen on the left picture above) and now your Christmas Hat nail is complete!
None of my nails were nearly as good as the pictures, but keep in mind I am also horrible at doing nails, so if you have any talent you could do it much better than I could. I was most happy with my Santa suit, and the Santa face was just off centered. I would suggest the Santa hat for most beginners because it's the most basic and takes the least amount of time.
Since these nails all take a significant amount of time I would advise them on one finger per hand then keeping the others simple. Red and white strips are a favorite of mine in the Christmas season because it reminds me of candy canes! Have a happy holidays everyone!