NPQ 12 Days of Christmas - Day 4

"On the twelfth day of Christmas NPQ sent to me, 

Twelve Twinkling Tree Lights

Eleventh Pretty Presents

Ten Rudolph Reindeer

Nine Jolly Santa's 
Eight Mistletoe

Seven Super Sweaters

Six Frosty Snowmen

Five Goooold Bliiiiing

Four Candy Canes..."

Mmm candy canes, do they call for Christmas or what?? Put them in your tree, in your belly or on your nails! They're delicious and fabulous!

Candy canes nails will never be out of style during this Holiday Season. Check out the pretty nail art made by our Queens:

+Karen Sulkowski 

+Sophie T 

+Kathleen Coultes 

+Kelly S. 

+Francine S. 

+Anatasia Kamelia 

+Lena Cannon 

+Margriet Sijperda 

+Crystal Bond 

and our mods:

+Keely Gallagher 

+Fabiana N 

+Magali Neuville-Bisceglia 

On to the french tips. Ok doesn't really relate to Christmas on it's own, but trust the Nail Polish Queens to make them Jolly!

NPQ Challenge - Candy Stripes - Showcase

Oh how hard was it to just chose 5-8 manicures, actually it wasn't hard it was impossible. So this is going to be a huge showcase because we just have too much talent lying around on NPQ. And even though 'only' a dozen of you got showcased it's only because the blog isn't supposed to be a copy past of the community of everyone would have been there :)

So let's see some of the lovely candy canes manicures we had last week for our NPQ Weekly Challenge:

+Katolin O opens the dance with her magnificent candy canes nails.

Next up it's +Lindsay Fitzpatrick with her beautiful gradient and her so realistic candy look/

+Fabiana N follows with her shiny foil candy canes and sparkling gold.

+Jessica Garcia free hand candy nails scream Christmas!

+Dante Bianchino pink and white water marble nails looked so tasty!

+Fia Kilbourn gorgeous candy stripes didn't go unnoticed. And such a gorgeous picture!

+Tara Howe candy nails are so well done! 

+Tenneil Turner make us drool with her candy shops and candy canes!

+Kelly S. original green and gold candy stripes were prefect!

Sparkles and candy canes.. what's not to love on +Angie Linn nails??

+Cynthia Lee Perez had it all on her nails! All gorgeous!

+Karen Sulkowski water marble candy canes... so tasty and perfect!

+MariJo Nails candy stripes with glitter of course... glitter is always a winner! 

+McKayle Hart textured pink candy stripes were just too cute!

and last but definitely not least +Margriet Sijperda and her amazing candy canes designs. 

Thank you all for your participation in our weekly challenges and for our amazing talent and ideas! See you next week for another showcase!

NPQ Challenge - Candy Stripes

NPQ Weekly Challenge: Candy Stripe

It's December and that means just one thing. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ;)

Candy Stripe is a great looking mani for any time of year, but get the red/white colour combo going on and it screams "CHRISTMAS IS COMING!" If you're not yet ready to make a serious start on Christmas nails, try it out with different colours.

If somebody posts one that you wanted to do, that's fine - do it anyway!  Some will be similar, but there are also many variations on this design:

Full nails, tips, accent nails, 2-colour, multi-colour, thick stripes, thin stripes ..

Google for "candy stripe nail art" to get some ideas.

Please post your pics in the "Weekly Challenge" category and don't forget your clean up - we want to see the candy on your nails, not on your fingers.

Hmmm .. Candy .. YUM YUM YUM!