Winter Manicures: Sparkles and Blue Ice

Sparkles and Blue Ice

Hello!  I thought it would be fun to start off the winter season with an original nail design.  My nail polish collection is a little limited, so I had to be a little creative with what I have!  And I have to say, the results were pretty cool.  I call this design Sparkles in Blue Ice because it is exactly that.  I'm not very good at naming things (or people for that matter), so if you have a better name for this, let me know!

Sparkles and Blue Ice

Revlon: Multi Care 965

Sinful Colors: Love Nails 282

 I USED...

-Claire's Cosmetics nail polish: this one didn't really have a name.  It was mainly just sparkles with a slight blue tint.  However, any sparkly polish will do the job.  

Sinful Colors: Snow Me White 101

Claire's: Sparkly Blue

-Sinful Colors: Snow Me White (White)

-Sinful Colors: Love Nails (Blue with a shiny incandescence)

-Revlon: Multi-Care base and top coat 

MY STEPS...

1.  Spread your base coat evenly on all of your clean, dry nails.
2.  Put on your white polish and make sure it is even.  This will be the supporting base for your blue.
3.  Paint the SHINY blue on all of your nails.  It doesn't need to be very even, since the white will show through and make it icy-like.  Because you have a white base, you only need to paint the blue on once.
4.  Take your sparkly polish and apply it lightly.  It doesn't need to be very thick unless you didn't have a SHINY blue nail polish.  
5.  Finish everything off with a nice liberal coat of your top coat.  Make sure to cover every millimeter of you nail so that your blue doesn't start to rub off in only a couple of days like it did with mine! 

Here is my thumb as an end result. 

I hope you liked the design.  Please let me know how it goes for you if you try it!  And if you decide to copy any pictures, give credit where it's due.  Thanks for reading!