Wintery snowflakes

Hi lovelies,

Happy Monday!  It is just a few days away from Christmas.  It doesn’t feel like it at all to me.  I don’t know why this year just doesn’t feel festive at all.  Either way, I am enjoying the holidays so far and I hope you are too!

I know Durban took a while to catch up to the summer train but it definitely isn’t winter and certainly no chance of snow.  That doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t want to have a white christmas at least once though.  To keep the dream alive, I did some wintery snowflakes nail art. Let me show you.

I started off with 2 coats of Sinful Colors – Matte about blue (which is so gorgeous, I have a swatch for you later) and left that to dry completely.  Once it was dry I stamped the snowflakes using BM-H01 for the biggest snowflake and QA19 for the 2 smaller ones.  I used Essence stampy polish in white and Tip Top – Armour plate to stamps with.  I then topcoated it.  Because Matte about blue dries matte I thought I would try it with a matte topcoat as well.

Even though Matte about blue dries matte I think adding a matte topcoat takes away some of it’s beauty.  I do like the matte version as well though.  Which one do you prefer?

Sinful Colors – Matte about blue

This is 2 coats with no topcoat.  It’s a bright (royal) blue with a blue shimmer to it.  It is absolutely stunning! With topcoat (as you can see in the above photos) it does make that shimmer shine.  It has a good formula even though I was a little worried at first because the first coat was a little sheer.  It definitely builds up well and in two coats is pure perfection.

What do you think of it?  Do you want to have a white christmas or do you already?

Thanks for reading,