Rudolph by Christabell Nails - #12DOCC Guest post - Day 1

I think everybody has seen the stop motion animation movie Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer by Rankin/Bassis from the 60s.  What you might not know is that the movie scares the the pejeepers out of me.  I swear if I close my eyes I can hear the whistle of Rudolph’s nose like he was in the room with me.  So I had to laugh when Mely asked me to take part in her 12 Days of Christmas challenge and my theme was ‘Rudolph’. 

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After much sketching, I decided to do some candy cane French tips to start.  I was originally going to do the tips on all my nails and Rudolph on my accent finger.  BUT … as I was painting the tips I decided it would be cute to have Rudolph peeking over one of the tips.  I had seen a cute Christmas card that had an image similar so I knew what I wanted to do it was just a matter of executing the idea. 

Candy Cane French Tips: http://youtu.be/VTC7W1p60Fg

The polishes that were used for these designs include Colour Gossip Saved (white), Back Stabber (red), Hope is Golden (gold), and Motives Emerald City (green).  For Rudolph, I also used Colour Gossip Busy Body (dark brown), City Chic (light brown), and Swipe The Card (black).  I used a red gem from Simply Spoiled Beauty and Glossy Glam as my top coat from Rica. 

• Colour Gossip Nail Lacquer - http://www.colourgossipnails.com                                                                                        (use Christabell10 to save 10%)

• Simply Spoiled Beauty Products - http://www.simplyspoiledbeautyproducts.com                                                              (use CBELL to save 40%)

• Motives Cosmetics - http://www.motivescosmetics.com 

• Rica - http://www.etsy.com/shop/justricarda
  

In retrospecct, I should have made the French tips a little shorter so I would have had more room for Rudolph, but I really liked the look of the deep tips.  For all of you with long fingernails you are set!

I hope you all liked this one (even if he does look a bit like Fozzie Bear dressed up as a reindeer).  I have to admit it was fun to paint this one, even if I did have a panic attack at the idea of Rudolph lol!  I filmed this one too so if you are interested in the tutorial for this design, please visit: http://youtu.be/hBzpNY-DGn4

 

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