With pop art nail designs having such a moment right now, I had an inkling that I wanted to put together some Christmasy ones this month, but it wasn't until I had the Uberchic Beauty Merry & Bright Stamping Plate in hand and saw these images that just felt like the absolute perfect choice for this mani that I decided officially to do it. Since most of the pop art mani's I've seen thus far have been done in gel polish, I wasn't entirely sure how this technique would turn out using regular polish, but I was in for the experiment and I only had to do it twice to get it right. 

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As soon as I had Uberchic It's A Season Of Joy Stamping Plate in hand, I knew that I wanted to put together a mani using the layered buffalo plaid images on the plate. Initially, I figured I would end up doing something pretty classic with it - either a red and black or a white and black buffalo plaid - but when I sat down to actually do this mani I started playing around with different ideas for color stories and I ended up settling on this sort of playful teal vibe that sort of ended up giving a really fun sort of... vintage diner decorated for the holidays kind of vibe - or at least that's what it feels like to me!

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When I sit down to think of inspiration for these types of themed nail art marathons that I do for Halloween and Christmas every year, I definitely look through a lot of different sources to try and spark creativity. One of those sources is my own previous work, where I feel like I can find new ways to use old ideas, if that makes sense at all outside of my head. For today's mani, I took inspiration from this mani I posted a couple of months ago and I did a pretty direct recreation of it, changing up the color scheme and some other details to bring in the holiday vibe and make it it's own thing. 

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As someone who lives in a very, very cold climate, I can tell you that I think there's only been one Christmas in my entire life that wasn't a white Christmas. Honestly, most of them are frigidly cold and basically drowning in snow - and I sort of love it. I mean, admitttedly, having to drive around to different celebrations and gatherings in the snow and cold isn't ideal, but there's just something about that contrast between being warm inside with hot drinks and cozy sweaters and family while the snow and cold literally glisten outside is kind of... perfect. Anyway, I wanted to lean into that feeling for today's mani, which is definitely more generally wintery than straight up Christmasy. 

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Annnnd it is time - Marathon of Holiday/Christmas themed nails o'clock. I've resisted posting anything even wintery before this point this year, but it's December 1 and now it's on so here we go! When I'm sitting down to plan out a whole bunch of nail art designs featuring one theme, there are always going to be ones that sort of get stuck in my head and those tend to be the ones that are the first to get done. Today's mani was so stuck in my head that I had dreams about doing it on multiple occasions and I knew exactly what I was going to do and what products I was going to use to do it long before I actually sat down and put it on my nails. Honestly, it's sort of a really simple design, but I think it has a great amount of impact and is perfect for the season!

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So I have to admit that I'm not entirely sure what it was that inspired this mani, but I'm actually pretty stoked at how it turned out. Abstract is obviously and necessarily a wide open sort of thing that doesn't really have any rules, but since my brain doesn't really work without having some rules and parameters for things, I tend to be very particular about how I put together abstract nail art and I tend to relate a lot back to classic designs - like French, in this case - and then play around with how I can manipulate those classic styles into something new. 

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In the past year, I've definitely been cultivating my love for abstract nail designs, so of course I was super excited that Whats Up Nails was releasing a new abstract stamping plate with A026 All Lined Up and I was super excited to get into it. Of course, it was literally as I was swatching their Gust Of Wind collection that I had the idea for this mani, so I paused the swatching and just put together this mani right there in the middle of it. It works, I think!

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As the days continue to get shorter and the weather colder, I am definitely feeling the weight of winter and I'd say it has me leaning a little bit more towards vampier nail art designs than I usually do. Weird, vampy designs are very much to my taste, but I actually don't do them a lot here on the blog because I don't love the way they photograph. I suspect it's that the paleness of my skin - seriously, I'm straight pasty, my friends - and I just tend not to like the results. That said, sometimes I just have to lean all the way in on the deep and vampy. 

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I always get excited about new stamping plate releases from Whats Up Nails, so I couldn't wait to get my hands on the 4 new plates that launched earlier this month. Of course, being in Canada it took a minute for them to get to me, but as soon as they did I tore right into using them and the first mani I knew I had to do as soon as I first saw the B075 Somewhere In Bee-tween Stamping Plate* was this one featuring this stunning sunflower image. It just had to happen. 

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Recently I was gifted some really, really lovely polishes from Unt and I was so eager to use them, but they didn't really fit in with the Halloween vibes so I've been holding off on using them until now. Because these colors are all so soft and desaturated, I knew that I wanted to do something sort of delicate with them and maintain that muted look overall. Of course, because I'm me, that meant putting them together in what is perhaps the most subtle smoosh I've ever done - and I love how it turned out.

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