Mom's Christmas Mani!

So, my mom was in need of a very festive mani. Seeing as how it's now December, what could be more festive than a Christmas mani?! Now, she's not one for super fancy or flashy nails, so I tried to keep it simple. 

These are the supplies I used. Three polishes, red, white & silver, green & white acrylic paint, brushes, & rhinestones.

Now, to start of, I put two coats of red polish, I used KleanColors Metallic Red, one all fingers except the ring finger of each hand. On the ring finger I used KleanColors White. How many coats you need to put all depends on the brand & how opaque you want it to look.

Now, one the nail polish dried, I started on the Christmas tree on the ring fingers. I used green acrylic paint to paint a tree like shape on to the nail then filled it in.

I then used various colored rhinestones for the ornaments & a pink star for the top of the tree. I stuck them on by just dabbing a tiny bit of the green paint underneath them.

Just to show the difference, on the bottom picture, I used a dotting tool to add in silver polish to resemble garland on a real tree. 

I then used the dotting tool to put dabs of the same red polish used to paint the rest of her nails. I wanted to tie the colors in properly! :)

To finish them off, I used the green & white acrylic paints as well as the silver polish to create simple stripes to accent the whole mani. I did this on every red nail. I changes the direction the stripes are going to match the hand they were on, as you can see in the very first picture. This was the finished result on her right hand!