Holiday Glam: Nail Bling
Friday, November 13th, 2009
Healthy, well manicured, buffed, natural nails are always in. Just tend to your cuticles with cuticle oil, vitamin E, almond oil or any such oil nightly and you are always set.
However if you choose to wear nail polish here are some looks to rock this holiday season:
1. French manicure.
Year-round sophisticated chic
2. Shimmer
This is grown up glimmer, not your 5-yo glitter-glue nail polish. Coat with a top coat to maintain frost/ shine.
If you choose to wear the more trendy glittery polish, keep your clothing simple and streamlined.
3. Embellishments
Gems and nail art. Just keep it simple.
No need to have New Year’s fireworks on every nail, choose to highlight one nail on each hand, index or ring finger perhaps. Understated glam is sexy.
DO
- Keep nails a reasonable length.
Regardless of what you see on TV, people in general, including men, don’t find claw-like nails attractive.
Plus it screams ‘high-maintenance’.
Keep nails short to medium length and squoval (love child of an oval and and square) work best and put less pressure on nails as they require minimum filing when compared to pointy nails.
Shorter nails work well for dark colours.
- Rock the season’s nail colours. They include:
- Deep, richer hues of Red
- Black and look-like-black colours
- Metals – Gold, Silver, Champagne, grey
- Purples and Plums and
- Rich ‘nudes’
- White on darker skin tones.
Candy coloured nails are so summer vacay.
- Maintain nails
If nail colour is chipped remove it and replace with a clear base coat, or rock natural until you can get to polishing them later.
- Maintain cuticles
As with natural nails, maintain cuticles by applying cuticle oil. Almond oil, vitamin E and olive oil all work equally well.
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If you bite your nails, just stop.
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Nail it!
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