Every year since I started doing Halloween nail art, I've done some version of bats stamped over a gradient. It's honestly one of my favorite designs and I feel like there's no limit to how many completely different versions of this design you can put together. This year, I decided that I wanted to do something a little different from previous years, so I put together a pastel rainbow gradient as my base and I'm obsessed!

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For our last week of Allyship nails for this month's #CBBxManiMonday theme, I sort of wanted to go all in. Obviously we chose this theme for June because of it being both Pride Month and Indigenous History Month here in Canada, but allyship is obviously so much bigger than that and so I decided to make this mani more about inclusivity and love overall. At the end of the day, every marginalized group experiences the world differently and has different needs that we need to listen to and value, and I find that leading with love and an acknowledgement of all people's personhood is fundamental to being a good ally. And so, that's what I had in mind when I did this mani - I hope it translates. 

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I have to say, I'm so excited to be getting into spring nails and finally doing some florals. Something about my brain keeps florals pretty much exclusively for spring, so I always wait until the weather is warm to get them on my nails. I'm also pretty intent on putting together some interesting bases again. I always get excited to play with smooshes or sponged on bases and all of the really fun things you can do to create texture and interesting base looks. Honestly, I'm just excited to get excited about nail art again, if that makes sense.

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My stamping plate collection has continued to grow and grow over the years and it's gotten to the point now where I definitely have some plates in my collection that I haven't gotten around to trying out yet and I really want to put in an effort to finally pull them out and use them this year. One of those plates is KADS Fashion 094, which is admittedly sort of a weird plate that I knew I wanted in my collection but I wasn't entirely sure how I was going to use. I finally pulled it out for this mani and I really couldn't be more thrilled about this first design that I created using it.

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One thing that I always find myself being mindful of when it comes to putting together Christmas/Holiday themed nail art is that I can't lean entirely on the color palette that we think of as traditionally seasonal. I mean, I love a red and green or icy blue mani as much as the next one, but I feel like great holiday nail art can also come in more non-traditional colors - especially if those colors have a distinctly cozy vibe to them. For today's mani, I leaned into taupe paired with black, white and champagne gold and I think it definitely brings the holiday vibe without being too on the nose. 

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Honestly, you guys, the degree to which I'm excited about today's nail art design is basically off the charts. I've had this mani in mind for ages now, but it fell victim to being one of the designs that my brain convinces me is going to be hard to do and so I should put it off... and then it never gets done. I don't know if this a neurodivergence thing, but it's definitely something that happens to me fairly often, and in the case of this one my brain was entirely lying to me. This is actually a really straightforward design that packs an absolute ton of impact and I'm sort of madly in love with it, if we're being honest. 

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