By Alice Sanderson, Fitness Magazine
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holiday season is especially about love, and what better way to show
your other half how much you love him than by kissing him under the
mistletoe? Now you don't even have to buy mistletoe—you can just hold up
your nails and give him a kiss he can't resist with these cute and easy
mistletoe Christmas nails. You can also add a fun candy cane border to
make your design stand out even more.
Before you start, you will need a base coat, a thin nail art brush or
detailing brush, a green nail polish, an opaque red nail polish, a
white nail polish, and a clear topcoat.
1. Paint your nails with a base coat. When the base
coat dries, draw three small lines as shown at the base of your nail
using a thin nail art brush.
2. Lightly sketch the shape of the mistletoe leaves.
You can afford to make a couple of mistakes as you work out how your
leaves will be spaced out.
3. Using a green nail polish, like OPI Don't Mess with OPI, fill in the leaves, starting from the top of the mistletoe and making your way to the tip of your nail.
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4.
Using a detailing brush, paint a bow in the space between the top of
your mistletoe and the leaves. It's best to use a white polish first,
like OPI Alpine Snow, and then paint over it
neatly using a red polish, like Barry M Copa Cobana; otherwise the red
won't stand out against the green nail polish.
5. Using the tip of your brush or a dotting tool,
add small white berries to the leaves. To create the candy cane border,
add white dots spaced apart, starting from the tops of your nails. I
found it easier to do the top half first and then the second half to get
even spacing.
6. Fill in between the white dots with red dots. When dry, add a fast-drying topcoat to seal in your mistletoe Christmas nails.
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