Last year when I was putting together Christmas nail art, I leaned pretty heavily on sweater nails. Partially this is because I had a heck of a lot less stamping plates at that point, but also because I feel like they're a really versatile and cozy pattern that you can really play with. I knew that this year I wanted to do at least one sweater mani and ultimately decided to go in a little bit of a different direction, ultimately inspired by a pair of pink, grey and white leggings that I love to wear around the house at this time of year.

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For this mani, I started as I always do with polishes that contain a fair amount of glitter, and applied a coat of Unt Ready For Take Off Peel Off Base Coat to all of my nails.  Next, I decided that I wanted to construct the mani with my middle two fingers being different from the outer two - something that I tend to do a lot. For my first and pinkie finger, I applied 3 coats of NailsInc Holler-Graphic Nail Polish in Rocket Fuel and for my middle two fingers I chose its companion polish, NailsInc Holler-Graphic Nail Polish in Ghetto Galactic and applied three coats of that as well.

For the stamping, I wanted to choose two images that would pair well together but wouldn't be too similar, so I actually ended up reaching for two different stamping plates. For all of the stamping, I used the BornPrettyStore White Stamping Polish. Over the silver base, I applied this sort of more argyle pattern from the XY-Merry Christmas 05 Stamping Plate. I love this type of pattern, it's one of my personal favorites. Over the pink base, I wanted to go really traditional and I really went back and forth on which pattern to use, but ultimately I used an image from the XY-Merry Christmas 01 Stamping Plate because I really liked the scale of it. 

To finish, I started with a coat of Essence The Gel Polish Top Coat because it doesn't smear my stamping. Once that was dry, I also applied a coat of CND Speedey Daily Defense Top Coat because I felt like the holo could pop a little bit more and I find that this top coat really helps to bump up the rainbows in a holo base - and it did!