Christmas Nail Art: Cupcakes

I've been meaning to do a revised version of my cupcake nail art and I think I found the perfect opportunity by coming up with a Christmas cupcake nail design! I used the most famous Christmas colors -- red, green, and gold. I'd like to dedicate this cupcake nail art to all those who got inspired by the design and shared with me their versions. Thank you so much!

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Christmas cupcake nail art by Simply Rins


After applying a layer of base coat, I used 2 coats of Sally Hansen Emerald City for the cupcake holder. I painted a red cupcake first using OPI Color So Hot It Burns with white acrylic paint as base. I added white frosting using Lucidarling white and sprinkled (so to speak) gold micro beads to complete the Christmas cupcake nail art.

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If only these cupcakes are real!


In my original cupcake post, a reader asked me about bleeding micro beads when applying top coat so I did a little experiment. I use several brands of top coats and some of them caused the beads to bleed. I figured it must have something to do with the composition of the top coat. So far, among my stash of top coats, Sally Hansen Insta-Dry and Poshe Super Fast Drying top coat didn't make the micro beads bleed. I hope this helps when you'll do nail art with beads. Please use the comment section if you know of other top coat brands that works well with micro beads.

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You can experiment with colors for this design.


I was also thinking of just a plain white cupcake and add Christmas colors as sprinkles!

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A closer look at our Christmas cupcake nail art.


This has been my 3rd installment for this month's Christmas nail art. I still have a long way to go and hopefully you'll like what I'll be sharing with you for this month. If you have any suggestions or ideas, please let me know. :)

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Perhaps pastry shops can come up with cupcake designs for Christmas as well!






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